Van IJzendoorn, M;
Fearon, P;
Bakermans-Kranenburg, M;
(2017)
Attachment – public and scientific discourse.
The Psychologist
, 30
pp. 6-9.
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Abstract
In her rather scathing review of ‘The predictive power of attachment’ (January 2017) Elizabeth Meins takes aim at misguided opinions about attachment that circulate in the policy arena. Certainly, policy makers, in an attempt to secure public money that children, families, and schools badly need, tend to exaggerate claims about the critical importance of early experience. The public discourse however should be sharply differentiated from the scientific discourse. Here we focus on Meins’s critique of attachment research. We list some of her comments about the evidence and show that they are largely mistaken.
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