Multidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary
foundations of children's attachment relationships and on the
consequences for education, counseling, and policy. It is generally
acknowledged that attachment relationships are important for
infants and young children, but there is little clarity on what
exactly constitutes such a relationship. Does it occur between two
individuals (infant-mother or infant-father) or in an extended
network? In the West, monotropic attachment appears to function as
a secure foundation for infants, but is this true in other
cultures? This volume offers perspectives from a range of
disciplines on these questions. Contributors from psychology,
biology, anthropology, evolution, social policy, neuroscience,
information systems, and practice describe the latest research on
the cultural and evolutionary foundations on children's attachment
relationships as well as the implications for education,
counseling, and policy. The contributors discuss such issues as the
possible functions of attachment, including trust and
biopsychological regulation; the evolutionary foundations, if any,
of attachment; ways to model attachment using the tools of
information science; the neural foundations of attachment; and the
influence of cultural attitudes on attachment. Taking an
integrative approach, the book embraces the wide cultural
variations in attachment relationships in humans and their
diversity across nonhuman primates. It proposes research methods
for the culturally sensitive study of attachment networks that will
lead to culturally sensitive assessments, practices, and social
policies. Contributors Kim Bard, Marjorie Beeghly, Allyson J.
Bennett, Yvonne Bohr, David L. Butler, Nandita Chaudhary, Stephen
H. Chen, James B. Chisholm, Lynn A. Fairbanks, Ruth Feldman,
Barbara L. Finlay, Suzanne Gaskins, Valeria Gazzola, Ariane
Gernhardt, Jay Giedd, Alma Gottlieb, Kristen Hawkes, William D.
Hopkins, Johannes Johow, Elfriede Kalcher-Sommersguter, Heidi
Keller, Michael Lamb, Katja Liebal, Cindy H. Liu, Gilda A. Morelli,
Marjorie Murray, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, Naomi Quinn, Mariano
Rosabal-Coto, Dirk Scheele, Gabriel Scheidecker, Margaret A.
Sheridan, Volker Sommer, Stephen J. Suomi, Akira Takada, Douglas M.
Teti, Bernard Thierry, Ross A. Thompson, Akemi Tomoda, Nim
Tottenham, Ed Tronick, Marga Vicedo, Leslie Wang, Thomas S.
Weisner, Relindis D. Yovsi
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