Any Kind of Mother in a Storm
Infant monkeys were raised with chicken-wire surrogates with air jets in the middle of their torsos. When an infant clung, she’d receive an aversive blast of air. What would a behaviorist predict that the monkey would do when faced with such punishment? Flee. But, as in the world of abused children and battered partners, infants held harder.
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Why do we ever love the wrong person, get abused, and return for more?
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If a pup that had been conditioned at ten days of age or older (“ older pups”) was exposed to that odor, logical things happened—Amygdala activation, Glucocorticoids secretion, and avoidance of the odor. But do the same to a younger pup and none of that would occur; remarkably, the pup would be attracted to the odor.
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block Glucocorticoids secretion in older pups during conditioning, and they’d become attracted to the aversive odor.
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If this applies to humans, it helps explain why individuals ==abused as kids are as adults prone toward relationships in which they are abused by their partner.==
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⇒ Partnerwahl
see also
Bindung der Mutter zum Kind
The Importance of Mothers
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