Attachment, caregiving, and altruism: boosting attachment security increases compassion and helping.

By Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver, Omri Gillath, Rachel A Nitzberg. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005

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The Relationship between Self-compassion and Other-focused Concern among College Undergraduates, Community Adults, and Practicing Meditators (2013, background): “It's also possible that a more general factor of emotional resilience helps people to be more self-compassionate and also less distressed by the suffering of others (Mikulincer, Shaver, Gillath, & Nitzberg, 2005 ).”
Self-Centeredness and Selflessness: A Theory of Self-Based Psychological Functioning and Its Consequences for Happiness (2011, background): “The higher the individual’s level of avoidant-attachment, the less likely he is to be compassionate and the less inclined he will be to engage in altruistic behaviors (e.g., Mikulincer et al., 2005).”
Pulling on the Heartstrings: Examining the Effects of Emotions and Gender in Persuasive Appeals (2013, background): “…GIVING MOTIVES AND ATTACHMENT THEORY Evidence indicates that helping behavior is not always directed by other-oriented, altruistic motives but can also be governed by egoistic motives such as enhancing one’s mood, relieving distress, and protecting close relationships (Mikulincer et al. 2005).”
Attachment avoidance and the cultural fit hypothesis: A cross-cultural investigation (2010, background): “However, experimental studies have shown that priming attachment representations causally affects a number of attachment-related variables (e.g., Mikulincer et al., 2005), and longitudinal studies (e.g., Rholes et al., 2001) have confirmed that attachment orientations predict systematic changes in…”
Attachment and trait forgivingness: The mediating role of angry rumination (2007, background): “A substantial literature has now emerged demonstrating that attachment representations can be contextually activated and can be partner specific rather than global (e.g., Finkel, Burnette, & Scissors, in press; Mikulciner, Shaver, Gillath, & Nitzberg, 2005 ).”
Empathy from infancy to adolescence: An attachment perspective on the development of individual differences (2017, background): “…studies of dispositional attachment security, these studies of experimental activation of secure IWMs find evidence of links between security priming and empathy toward both romantic partners (Mikulincer, Shaver, Sahdra, & Bar-On, 2013) and strangers in distress (Mikulincer et al., 2001, 2005).”
Place Attachment Enhances Psychological Need Satisfaction (2017, methodology): “In studies involving visualizations of interpersonal attachment figures, where a similar method is used to generate a control group (e.g., Mikulincer et al., 2005), this limitation is also possible, provided that someone selected a nonattachment figure who was tangentially associated with their…”
What is compassion and how can we measure it? A review of definitions and measures. (2016, background): “The strongest measures identified were Neff's (2003b) SelfCompassion Scale and Hacker's (2008) Relational Compassion Scale, but neither of these measures capture each of the five elements in our definition.”
Moving Toward a Secure Attachment Style: Can Repeated Security Priming Help? (2008, background): “Past research has shown that contextual activation of attachment security is associated with a more positive mood (e.g., Mikulincer et al., 2001) and better functioning of other behavioral systems (e.g., caregiving: Mikulincer et al., 2005; exploration: Green & Campbell, 2000).”