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There are three major styles of attachment: secure, anxious and avoidant. […] A person’s attachment style is largely influenced by whether or not they bonded successfully with their primary caregivers – parents or otherwise – in childhood, though more recent research suggests that genes, and our romantic history as adults, may also be influential factors. Analysis of studies in North America and Europe found that … [ Read more ]

Author: Elle Hunt | Source: The Guardian (November 5, 2019) | Subjects: Character, Excerpts, Psychology | Behavior, Relationships

A new book argues that the emotion happens in “micro-moments of positivity resonance.”

Author: Emily Esfahani Smith | Source: The Atlantic (January 24, 2013) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Love, Psychology | Behavior, Relationships

In 1908, Indian revolutionary Taraknath Das wrote to Leo Tolstoy, by then one of the most famous public figures in the world, asking for the author’s support in India’s independence from British colonial rule. On December 14, Tolstoy, who had spent the last twenty years seeking the answers to life’s greatest moral questions, was moved to reply in a long letter, which Das published in … [ Read more ]

Author: Leo Tolstoy | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (August 21, 2014) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Freedom | Liberty, History, Life & Society, Love, Sociology | Anthropology