Adult attachment : a concise introduction to theory and research / Omri Gillath, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas Lawrence, KS, USA, Gery C. Karantzas, School of Psychology, Deakin University Burwood, Victoria, Australia, R. Chris Fraley, Department of Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL, USA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is attachment theory? -- What is an attachment relationship? -- How do individual differences in attachment develop? -- What are attachment working models? -- How are individual differences in attachment measured? -- How stable are attachment styles in adulthood? -- What can social cognition and priming tell us about attachment? -- What is the attachment behavioral system? And, how is it linked to other behavioral systems? -- What are the effects of context on attachment? -- What can neuroscience, genetics, and physiology tell us about attachment? -- What are the implications of attachment processes for psychopathology and therapy?

"The book covers a variety of topics on attachment from different levels of analysis: formation and development of attachment bonds; conceptualization and measurement of attachment styles; working models of attachment - their content structure, and implications for relationship functioning and emotion regulation; cognitive underpinnings of attachment and its activation of enhancement via priming; interplay between the attachment behavioral system and other behavioral systems; contribution of physiology, neurosciene, and genetics to attachment; role of contextual factors in understanding attachment; implications of attachment for therapy and understanding psychopathology."--Page 4 of cover.