PSYC 473 Lecture Notes - Diederik Stapel, Social Cognition, Attachment In Adults

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 473
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

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Symposium this friday regarding achievement around 3pm. In 2011, confessed to faking and manipulating data in 30 or more publications. Slide 3: which of the following best describes your feelings in your relationships, in general: i find it relatively easy to get close to others and am comfortable depending on them. I am nervous when anyone gets too close, and often, love partners want me to be more intimate than i feel comfortable being: i find that others are reluctant to get as close as i would like. Bowlby"s attachment theory (1969: evolution has wired humans to seek closeness and, thereby, emotional security, we learn patterns of closeness, developing working models of how best to achieve closeness and emotional security. Bowlby: one of the earliest social cognitive theorists. Original work applying attachment theory to adults. Put it in the newspaper, valentine section, valentine"s day quiz: ask people to pick which one describes them; ask other questions as well.