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Anxious Aspirations: Attachment Anxiety Fuels Status Strivings Through Intrasexual Competition

2025-11-25

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<p>Striving for social status is a fundamental human motive, yet individuals vary considerably in their status-seeking tendencies. Drawing on attachment literature and life history theory, we propose that attachment anxiety drives status pursuit through heightened intrasexual competition. Across six preregistered studies (N = 4,456) spanning five countries, we found that attachment anxiety, but not attachment avoi...

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Literature Corpus work: 85b5daf0-b575-55ad-a8ae-e44531563209
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/t94gx_v2

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