Why it matters
Revealed different attachment patterns.
Core term · Mary Ainsworth
The Strange Situation
A gentle laboratory scene of brief partings and reunions, designed to reveal how a young child draws on a parent as a safe base in an unfamiliar room.
Areas of life
Parentingdevelopment
How to handle it
Observe behavior under separation and reunion, not only words.
Who shaped this idea
The thinker behind it
From concept to practice
Turn The Strange Situation into a question you can answer.
Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.