Problems with emotional attachment to objects (i.e., object attachment) are a key component of hoarding disorder (HD) in the cognitive-behavioral model of HD. We hypothesized that excessive object attachment is an attempt to compensate for unmet relatedness needs. We tested this hypothesis in ...
Attachment anxiety and avoidance were positively correlated with hoarding symptoms and with emotional attachment to possessions. Current attachment insecurity and emotional attachment to objects partly mediated the relationship between childhood trauma and hoarding symptoms, after controlling for anxiety and ...
Some people maintain an emotional attachmentto stuffed animals and dolls that lasts well intotheir adulthood. But with the passage of time,sometimes the soft companions get worn and ragged orbreak.In Shanghai, ZhuBoming, a 74-year-oldretiree, has opened a specialhospital" at home to “nurseda...
Current attachment insecurity and emotional attachment to objects partly mediated the relationship between childhood trauma and hoarding symptoms, after controlling for anxiety and depression. This study provides evidence for a novel way by which traumatic life events may influence hoarding symptomatology via...
In addition, it uses research on human-artificial entity interaction to better understand what makes a response empathic and differentiates it from emotional responding. Finally, it examines how we emotionally and empathically respond to destruction of certain objects, and how responses differ based on...
Alexithymia is a psychological construct characterized by deficits in processing emotional stimuli. However, little is known about the processing of odours in alexithymia, even though there is extensive proof that emotion and olfaction are closely linked
These infants have learned to avoid their caregiver and "hold in" their feelings of distress, and they often shift their attention to play with objects. The second type of insecurity is called "ambivalent" or "resistant" and is characterized by exaggerated expression of attachment needs. These ...
We examined (a) how emotional attachment to a choice option as indexed by state-related changes in electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry over the prefrontal cortex and electrodermal activity predicts choices and mediates the endowment effect and (b) the emotional–motivational responses to trade-off...
Although the likelihood and frequency of gazing at human face (known as "social referencing behaviour") was higher when the owners expressed a negative reaction to the objects, only subtle differences in cats' behaviour were observed between the positive and nega- tive emotional conditions (i.e....