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

They generate strong "red" signals that prevent chromosomes from making incorrect early attachments.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

Or maybe you are looking for the excitement of a big city where English is widely spoken, have no family attachments and enjoy seasonal weather.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 29, 2025

Powell had adjusted the binocular attachments, so that he seemed as eye-stalked as a snail.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov