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Disorganized attachment and reproductive strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Andrew J. Lewis  and
Gregory Tooley
Andrew J. Lewis
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood 3125, Victoria, Australia. andrew.lewis@deakin.edu.auhttp://www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/greg.tooley@deakin.edu.auhttp://www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/
Gregory Tooley
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood 3125, Victoria, Australia. andrew.lewis@deakin.edu.auhttp://www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/greg.tooley@deakin.edu.auhttp://www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/
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Abstract

Del Giudice provides an extension of the life history theory of attachment that incorporates emerging data suggestive of sex differences in avoidant male and preoccupied female attachment patterns emerging in middle childhood. This commentary considers the place of disorganized attachment within this theory and why male children may be more prone to disorganized attachment by drawing on Trivers's parental investment theory.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 35 - 36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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