Attachment Theory: How Your Childhood Shaped You
Our interpersonal relationships start forming as soon as we're born, and psychologists have studied how those early connections can set the stage for the other relationships we form later...
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[INTRO ♪] Humans are social creatures, and long ago, our survival even depended on our ability to build relationships— otherwise, you’d probably get eaten by a leopard or something. Today, strong, healthy relationships are still important, because they offer us security and comfort. And they’re especially important in childhood. A lot of the research about how babies form relationships revolves around an idea called attachment theory, which describes how infants relate to their parents or caregivers. Today, we know that your experiences during infancy might even shape how you form significant relationships for the rest of your life. But how that works, and whether or not you have any control over it, isn’t always as straightforward. Shortly afte...
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[INTRO ♪] Humans are social creatures, and long ago, our survival even depended on our ability to build relationships— otherwise, you’d probably get eaten by a leopard or something. Today, strong, healthy relationships are still important, because they offer us security and comfort. And they’re especially important in childhood. A lot of the research about how babies form relationships revolves around an idea called attachment theory, which describes how infants relate to their parents or caregivers. Today, we know that your experiences during infancy might even shape how you form significant relationships for the rest of your life. But how that works, and whether or not you have any control over it, isn’t always as straightforward. Shortly afte...
