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What Is Actually Going On

Attachment, three components, three brain systems, and what predicts lasting

Bowlby · Ainsworth · Sternberg · Fisher · 4 chapters · 10 min read

Attachment, three components, three brain systems, and the boring things that predict lasting.

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The research, with its caveats intact

  1. 01A Theory Built in a NurseryOn a theory about infants that became a theory about everybody, and how far it stretches.
  2. 02Three Ingredients and Eight RecipesOn splitting love into three parts and finding they run at different speeds.
  3. 03Three Systems, and What a Scan Cannot SayOn three brain systems, and the most common overclaim in popular science.
  4. 04What Actually Predicts LastingOn the least romantic findings in the course, and the only ones you can act on.