Attachment-Related Self-Knowledge As Dynamical Systems

Attachment-related self-knowledge is activated after recalling separation experiences from attachment figures and is organized in hierarchies with upper-level categories (e.g., "life attitudes", "learning") and sub-level attributes (e.g., "comfortable", "hopeless"). This knowledge functions as dynamical systems in which low-order self-organizing processes (e.g., attractor) give rise to high-order evaluative states in categories.