id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3684 Human bonding - Wikipedia .html text/html 4960 543 59 Human bonding is the process of development of a close, interpersonal relationship between two or more people. Bonding typically refers to the process of attachment that develops between romantic or platonic partners, close friends, or parents and children. Hence, with all human romantic relationships, one of three varieties of bonds may form, defined over a set duration of time, in relation to the experience or non-experience of limerence: Main articles: Affectional bond and Attachment theory This included the development of the concept of the affectional bond, sometimes referred to as the emotional bond, which is based on the universal tendency for humans to attach, i.e. to seek closeness to another person and to feel secure when that person is present. However, research regarding The Mental and Social Life of Babies suggested that the "parent-infant system," rather than a bond between biologically related individuals, is an evolved fit between innate behavior patterns of all human infants and equally evolved responses of human adults to those infant behaviors. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3684.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3684.txt