Attachment Avoidance and the Definite Article in Cohabiting Couples' Walk-Throughs of Their Homes
A paper from the School of Settled Matters records 118 cohabiting couples walking a researcher through their homes and codes 11,362 references to their household objects, finding that partners higher in attachment avoidance used fewer plural possessives and more bare definite articles rather than more singular ones, most of all for objects acquired together, while attachment anxiety raised plural possessives only for objects the partner had brought in.
| Authors | Clemency Tredinnick , Eivind Onwuka |
|---|---|
| School | School of Settled Matters |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.9jmhbr |
| Pages | 7 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_9jmhbr,
author = {Clemency Tredinnick and Eivind Onwuka},
title = {Not Mine, Not Ours: Attachment Avoidance and the Definite Article in Cohabiting Couples' Walk-Throughs of Their Homes},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.9jmhbr},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-mine-yours-ours-9jmhbr/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}