The results of Studies 1 and 2 support our claim that attachment anxiety
elicited by the salience of close others' unreliability increases object
attachment. However, three plausible alternative explanations remain
untested. First, our close-others-unreliable prime may have increased
general uncertainty and thereby increased attraction to the general
certainty afforded by objects. Uncertainty may have been low in the comparison
conditions insofar as participants expected strangers to be