John Bowlby, a psychologist who studied attachment theory, highlighted the importance of consistency in a caretaker for every human being from the moment they are born. The results of the study done in the article prove his theories to be true. The study took place over a span of a few days in order to gather different information after each situation occurred. Unexpectedly, the results for attachment anxiety were opposite of what was hypothesized. “Anger and fear increased for participants who were low in attachment anxiety but not for those high in …show more content…
(Mohr, p9) People who ranked high in attachment anxiety were more likely to respond in favor of everyday experiences regarding conflict. As previously stated, this scholarly article relates to the concept of attachment theory we discussed in class. I found that it best related to the chapter/article, Ways of Attaching, from The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain. Researchers who studied attachment observed infants to determine whether they were secure, avoidant, anxious-ambivalent, or disorganized which all stems from the interactions with our primary caretakers. The article on heterosexist encounters really focused on the secure, avoidant and anxious