![]() ![]() People with a preoccupied (or “anxious”) style badly want intimacy but, fearing rejection, cling or search for validation. Those with a dismissive style-more commonly known as “avoidant”-are overly committed to independence and don’t feel that they need much deep emotional connection. Researchers have identified four basic “attachment styles”: People with a secure style feel that they can depend on others and that others can depend on them too. So she decided to look more deeply into the state of Americans’ connections-and in order to do so, she turned to attachment theory. As a researcher at Indiana University, she’d already found that narcissism rates seemed to be increasing among Americans, and empathy decreasing that was a combination that didn’t bode well, she feared, for the quality of people’s relationships. A bout a decade ago, the social psychologist Sara Konrath led a study that yielded some disturbing results. ![]()
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