271. Attachment and Friendship in Adulthood: A Conversation with Dr. Marisa G. Franco
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
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Is Your Attachment Styles a Series of Predictions?
Your attachment styles a series of predictions right it's a series of mindsets if a then be right. And these predictions affect how we behave so anxiously attached people. They're higher in something called rejection sensitivity which means they assume they're being rejected when it's ambiguous. But when they make that assumption, someone's like maybe in hungry, hangry, quieter than usual. What happens is, because they assume that that means rejection they start to reject and become withdrawn. That mindset triggers a series of behaviors that make however you perceive the world good or bad more likely to happen. It's kind of like a lot of our beliefs about relationships are such self fulfilling prophecy.
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