The Behavioral and brain sciencesHumansObject AttachmentShynessSocial BehaviorAdaptation
From shyness to attachment: social behaviors as adaptive responses to environmental stress.
Bin-Bin Chen
Published: 202510.1017/S0140525X25101076
Abstract
This commentary expands Ellis et al.'s 2-tiered life history (LH) model by integrating shyness and insecure attachment as mediators of environmental adaptation. Shyness balances survival-reproduction trade-offs with mixed LH outcomes. Avoidant attach…
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