<story><title>Attachment theory is having a breakout moment</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/yes-its-your-parents-fault.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orthoganol</author><text>You may find it interesting to read about attachment type correlations with certain countries&amp;#x2F; cultures, from a developmental psychology textbook I have:&lt;p&gt;Perhaps surprisingly, the relative incidence of different attachment styles, as measured using Ainsworth’s Strange Situation, varies dramatically across cultures (Thompson, 1998; Van IJzendoorn &amp;amp; Kroonenberg, 1988). Consider, for example, the substantial cultural differences shown in Table 6.2. The majority of German infants studied were measured as insecurely attached (mostly avoidant, or Type A). Japanese infants showed no avoidant attachments whatsoever, and they were almost three times as likely as their American counterparts to show anxious (Type C) attachments. Finally, one group of Israeli children showed almost 10 times as many anxious attachments as Swedish children. Because the procedure used in the Strange Situation is relatively straightforward, it does not seem that these variations can be explained by simple methodological discrepancies in how the assessments were conducted (Harwood et al., 1995; Thompson, 1998; Van IJzendoorn &amp;amp; Kroonenberg, 1988).&lt;p&gt;From &amp;quot;Developmental Psychology: The Growth of Mind and Behavior&amp;quot;, p. 236</text></comment>
<story><title>Attachment theory is having a breakout moment</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/yes-its-your-parents-fault.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gammarator</author><text>Parental genetics are far more important than parenting style in determining what kind of person you turn out to be.&lt;p&gt;And the &amp;quot;nurture&amp;quot; that matters is your peers, not your parents.&lt;p&gt;Skeptical? I highly recommend this book-length treatment of the research literature: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revised-Updated&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;1439101655&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revised-U...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unless they are doing twin &amp;amp; adoption studies (hard!), attachment researchers are conflating parenting practices (these warm and loving parents had a warm &amp;amp; loving kid!) with genetics.</text></comment>