An Attachment Theory Perspective on Closeness and Intimacy

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Responding to the needs of others: The caregiving behavioral system in intimate relationships (2010, background): “Consistent with this assumption, our laboratory studies in which caregiving quality is either experimentally manipulated (Collins & Feeney, 2004b) or coded by independent raters (Collins & Feeney, 2000) show that subjective perceptions of support are grounded, to a large extent, in the quality of…”
Childhood Emotional Abuse and the Attachment System Across the Life Cycle: What Theory and Research Tell Us (2010, background): “For example, preoccupied individuals desire intimacy, but findings suggest they tend to become enmeshed, losing their autonomy in romantic relationships and might self-disclose too easily and too much to gain approval of others (Collins & Feeney, 2004; Shaver, Schachner, & Mikulincer, 2005).”
Mere presence is not enough: Responsive support in a virtual world (2012, background): “…testing ground for discerning whether their partner will be there for them in good times and bad, and for shaping the broader conclusions they draw about their partner's intrinsic motivation to care for themwhen they are vulnerable and in need (Collins & Feeney, 2004; Tooby & Cosmides, 1996).”