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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 March 31, 2015 

The Risk of Risk: LeDoux on How the Scene Implies Danger

In my last post I mentioned that Bowlby pulls from ethology when he tells us that humans and many higher order animals have certain innate fears: darkness sudden large changes of stimulus level including: loud noises sudden movement strange people (or strange animals) strange things “The explanation of why individuals should so regularly respond to […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 March 24, 2015 

Affectional Bonds—Bowlby: Found in Translation

This is part V of my multi-part review of John Bowlby’s 1979 book The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds. This will be the last installment in this series. Here’s a brief recap of the central topics covered thus far: Sir Richard Bowlby’s introduction, which was added in 2005 Feminist criticism of attachment theory and […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 December 21, 2011 

“Take That Thumb Out of Your Mouth and Respond to That White Mouse—Now Kid”

I’d like to take a short break from writing my multi-part summary of neurologist Elkhonon Goldberg’s book entitled The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World. This will be my last post of the year, so I’ll restart my New Executive Brain summary early next year. Even though the Foundation is in the […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 August 30, 2011 

Bowlby Phobia

In my post of August 25th, 2011, I announced a series of posts focused on Nicholas Carr’s 2010 book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. In my opinion Carr actually “clean rooms” Bowlby’s theory. The series I announced is designed to take Carr’s clean room observations and frame them using Bowlbian attachment […]

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