Attachment Security, Compassion, and Altruism

By Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver. 2005

289 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3ca431bed9ea4881c70bff23f282b8737c95c644

How researchers see this paper

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Phillip R. Shaver
2. Mario Mikulincer
3. J. Cassidy
4. J. Stern
5. D. Narvaez
6. Jacquelyn T. Gross
7. Adam Waytz
8. Nicholas Epley

In Health

1. Phillip R. Shaver
2. J. Cassidy
3. J. Stern
4. Mario Mikulincer
5. D. Narvaez
6. Jacquelyn T. Gross
7. Jamie Arndt
8. C. Routledge

In Social Psychology

1. Constantine Sedikides
2. T. Wildschut
3. C. Routledge
4. Jamie Arndt
5. Phillip R. Shaver
6. Mario Mikulincer
7. J. Cassidy
8. J. Stern

Citations in the corpus

• Pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation: Divergent relations to subjective well-being. (2008, unknown): “Recently, Mikulincer, Shaver, and colleagues (Gillath, Shaver, & Mikulincer, 2005; Gillath et al., 2005; Mikulincer, Shaver, Gillath, & Nitzberg, 2005; for a review see Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005 ) have repeatedly demonstrated that secure attachment increases helpfulness.”
• TARGET ARTICLE: Selective Investment Theory: Recasting the Functional Significance of Close Relationships (2006, unknown): “But see George and Solomon’s (1999) proposal for evaluating parental caregiving in an attachment-theoretic framework, and recent work relating attachment security to compassion and altruism (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005).”
• Triune ethics: The neurobiological roots of our multiple moralities (2008, background): “This is notable in attachment disorders, which can make a person less empathic and receptive to others (Eisler & Levine, 2002; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005).”
• A lifespan perspective on attachment and care for others: Empathy, altruism, and prosocial behavior (2016, methodology): “Accordingly, although studies with adolescents are few, they provide the most consistent support for an association between attachment security and concern for others before adulthood, and these studies offer a point of continuity with findings from the adult literature (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005).”
• Social connection enables dehumanization (2012, background): “These findings do not suggest that social connection always increases negativity toward others (see Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005), but rather that social connection can enable dehumanization in particular.”
• Empathy from infancy to adolescence: An attachment perspective on the development of individual differences (2017, background): “Recently, attachment researchers have proposed that the secure IWM may be an important mediator of the link between attachment and empathy (Gross, Stern, Brett, & Cassidy, 2017; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2001, 2005, 2007; Shaver, Mikulincer, Gross, Stern, & Cassidy, 2016).”
• Nostalgia: content, triggers, functions. (2006, background): “Relationships In a resolute call to arms, Mikulincer and Shaver (2005) highlighted the need to identify “how various experiences and techniques, including psychotherapy, family therapy, skilled meditation, and participation in religious or charitable organizations, might enhance a person’s sense of…”