She is a contributor to Attachment Reconsidered: Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory and Different Faces of Attachment: Cultural Variations of a Universal Human Need. Alyssa N. Crittenden is a Lincy Foundation assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. She is a contributor to Attachment Reconsidered: Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory and the forthcoming The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology.