Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process Hazen and Shaver, of the University of Denver, show J. Bowlby's attachment theory of how young children relate to their mothers parallels the way adults interact in romantic relationships. Love is a biological and social process. When a person has confidence, the figure of their attachment will be supportive they are unlikely to panic or fear.
Confidence is built up slowly during a sensitive period.
Expectations of accessibility are reflections of experiences the individual has had. Hazen and Shaver preformed two distinct surveys to collect data to prove that adult relationships could be patterned with an attachment model. They selected the data of the first 620 of 1200 respondents. Their data consisted of 205 men and 415 women. Vulnerable to loneliness Problems with Surveys 1.