How are emotionally significant relationships formed, maintained, and transformed across the lifespan? This course examines attachment as a framework for understanding close bonds from infancy through adulthood, with attention to how attachment relationships organize security-seeking, caregiving, emotion regulation, and stress buffering. Drawing on developmental, social, clinical, biological, and evolutionaryperspectives, we will examine both species-typical development and individual differencesin attachment patterns, as well asquestions of stability andchange over time. Topics include the shift from parents to peers and romantic partners as attachment figures, adultattachment methodologies,links between attachment and psychopathology, and the implications of attachment research for prevention and intervention. This seminar is designed to beof interest to students interested in developmental and social psychology, cognitivepsychology,evolutionary psychology, counseling and clinical psychology, culture andcontext, biology, and neuroscience.Class projectsare designed to relateto students own research interests.