Calling About the Weather

Attachment Orientation and the Evening Call Home from Field Camp

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions follows 58 couples by paired evening diary through a partner's survey campaign at a camp with one handset and no other channel, covering 772 calls home. Rain at the camp predicted a call where a hard day did not, the weather was the topic fieldworkers reported most and feelings the one they reported least, and the partner at home felt closer after a call in which the weather was discussed, most of all where the fieldworker was high in attachment avoidance.

@misc{slop_8787wo,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Calling About the Weather: Attachment Orientation and the Evening Call Home from Field Camp},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.8787wo},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-dyadic-daily-diary-8787wo/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}