attachments
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The American Psychological Association released research on adolescents, indicating “that strong attachments to AI-generated characters may contribute to struggles with learning social skills and developing emotional connections.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
By demonstrating that CENP-E regulates the earliest attachments and by connecting this regulation to Aurora kinase activity, the Zagreb team linked two processes previously thought to act separately.
From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025
Only having given up ego and all attachments has he obtained the heart of compassion.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
I might be envious of Adah now, with no attachments to tear her heart out.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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