Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2009 - Volume 32, Issue 01  

Open Peer Commentary

Avoidant strategy in insecure females

Bin-Bin Chena1 and Dan Lia1

a1 Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China. b-bchen@hotmail.com lidan501@126.com

Abstract

This commentary cites evidence to argue that girls growing up in a competitive and aggressive environment are more likely to shift to avoidant attachment than to ambivalent attachment in middle childhood. These avoidant women are also more likely to favor a short-term mating strategy. The role of oxytocin (OT) and early experience in shaping an avoidant attachment in females is also discussed.

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