Avoidant Attachment: Exploration of an Oxymoron.

By Robin S. Edelstein, Phillip R. Shaver. 2004

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Citations in the corpus

• Decoding Customer–Firm Relationships: How Attachment Styles Help Explain Customers' Preferences for Closeness, Repurchase Intentions, and Changes in Relationship Breadth (2013, background): “Consequently, avoidant people tend to respond to closeness-triggering behavior with “a repertoire of defensive strategies” aimed at distancing themselves from others (Edelstein and Shaver 2004, p. 409).”
• Attached to monogamy? Avoidance predicts willingness to engage (but not actual engagement) in consensual non-monogamy (2015, background): “…in CNM, we expected that avoidance would predict more positive attitudes toward CNM and more willingness to engage in CNM, given highly avoidant individuals’ tendency to keep psychological and physical distance from romantic partners (Edelstein & Shaver, 2004; Pistole, Roberts, & Chapman, 2010).”