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| N L CollinsSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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A safe haven: an attachment theory perspective on support seeking and caregiving in intimate relationshipsN L Collins
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 78:1053-73. 2000..Finally, couples in better functioning relationships engaged in more supportive interactions, and participants' perceptions of their interaction were biased by relationship quality and attachment style...
Psychosocial vulnerability from adolescence to adulthood: a prospective study of attachment style differences in relationship functioning and partner choiceNancy L Collins
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93101, USA
J Pers 70:965-1008. 2002..This study provides the first prospective evidence that avoidant attachment places individuals at risk for adverse relationship outcomes and highlights potential pathways through which this occurs...
Working models of attachment shape perceptions of social support: evidence from experimental and observational studiesNancy L Collins
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 9660, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:363-83. 2004..These studies provide evidence that individuals are predisposed to appraise their support experiences in ways that are consistent with their chronic working models of attachment, especially when the support message is ambiguous...
Working models of attachment and attribution processes in intimate relationshipsNancy L Collins
Department of Psychology, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:201-19. 2006..In contrast, avoidant individuals endorsed pessimistic attributions for their partner's positive behavior but less so for their partner's transgressions, and these effects occurred regardless of their level of relationship satisfaction...
Predictors of caregiving in adult intimate relationships: an attachment theoretical perspectiveB C Feeney
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 80:972-94. 2001..Results revealed that attachment style and mediating mechanisms identified in Phase 1 also predicted observable support behavior in a specific episode in which a partner had a clear need for support...
Working models of attachment: implications for explanation, emotion and behaviorN L Collins
Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Buffalo 14260 4110, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 71:810-32. 1996..These findings are consistent with the idea that adults with different working models of attachment are predisposed to think, feel, and behave differently in their relationships...
Optimizing assurance: the risk regulation system in relationshipsSandra L Murray
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260 4110, USA
Psychol Bull 132:641-66. 2006..The authors then describe the consequences of such situated "if--then" rules for relationship well-being and conclude by integrating other theoretical perspectives and outlining future research directions...
Attachment styles, emotion regulation, and adjustment in adolescenceM L Cooper
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri Columbia 65211, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 74:1380-97. 1998..Finally, patterns of attachment effects were similar across age, gender, and racial groups, with some important exceptions...
Motivations for caregiving in adult intimate relationships: influences on caregiving behavior and relationship functioningBrooke C Feeney
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:950-68. 2003..Implications of identifying the motivations that promote or inhibit the provision of responsive support in intimate relationships are discussed...
Self-esteem moderates neuroendocrine and psychological responses to interpersonal rejectionMáire B Ford
Department of Psychology, Loyola Marymount University, One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:405-19. 2010..Discussion centers on the role of self-esteem as part of a broader psychobiological system for regulating and responding to social threat and on implications for health outcomes...
