The Mystery of the Strange Situation Experiment 

Disorganized attachment isn't the only pathological attachment style, it's just the most severe. Anxious and avoidant attachment are also attachment pathologies, though are more associated with neglectful inconsistency and neglectful abandonment (respectively) than aggressive abuse. AAMOF ADHD is just severe avoidant attachment and ASD is severe anxious attachment. The genome's been sequenced for a dozen years. It's been abundantly clear though for far longer that behavioral heritability within families is responsible for these conditions. Schizophreniform decompensation is essentially Stockholm syndrome in reverse so in any era those who've attributed the etiology of schizophrenia to the primary caregiver relationship have known we've been correct, but we've also come to know it's all SUPPOSED to persist. People prefer lies to truth, have average IQs of 100 not 130 +, and are handicapped by the irrationalities of mammalian emotions because conflict is apparently essential. Society doesn't "advance", but as it recycles it appears to advance. Any organism that natural selection can allow to evolve to the point of being intelligent enough to figure out that we're just here to eat screw and poop like all the others with no ordained destiny or higher purpose has to be too weak and distractible to understand it en masse. Otherwise almost everybody stops eating shitting and fucking right away, but the offspring of those who didn't would still be of average IQ (yes that's also environmental) even if they had high levels of reserve resiliency so the misunderstanding and conflict would resume. Mutual support and common goodwill ARE the most rational strategies (because our absence of free will is in large part the consequence of our dependence upon the cooperation and at least acquiescence of known and unknown others). So even though duplicity IS the highest form of stupidity, CONFLICT (all of which is rooted in misunderstanding or misrepresentation about the extent of implied trust) ACTUALLY IS ESSENTIAL. Moreover, so is the ignorance from which conflict arises. The most effective manipulations being of a polarizing nature is no coincidence--as polarity is the most fundamental property of energy itself.

This was really cool. I liked the animation, it really helped me better understand attachment theory.

Absolutely Fascinating!!! I would love to know how the parents felt about being involved in these experiements. And how things would differ if the stranger wasn't as kind and comforting. Very cool vid, Sherlock! 😉

So, wouldn’t #2-4 que some kind of neglect or abuse signals to social workers or doctors? Or possibly developmental delays? Not just #4.

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