All right, team, welcome back to the man talk show.

Connor Beaton here.

And today, we're going to be diving into the latest research on attachment and digging

into the question, is your attachment style genetic or is it environmentally affected? So does your family system really only

play a role in affecting your attachment style or do your genetics also play a role into it?

So wonderful piece of research that's just come out. They leveraged the data from the Minnesota

Twins study, Twins Registry. It's the largest

registry or sample of older adult twins. And this looks at roughly 1,377 twins, which is pretty

wild. It's a pretty big, pretty big study. And what they were looking for was participants

reporting on both their general attachment style and their relationship-specific attachments

to their mothers, to their fathers, to their partners, to their best friends. And the results

were really interesting. They suggested that your attachment style is partly heritable.

So it's partly a genetic component.

Roughly 36% is partly heritable, meaning if you have parents that are more avoidant,

then you're likely to inherit a more avoidant attachment style.

And it's partly attributed to the environmental factors that are not shared.

And this specifically was looking at environmental factors not shared between the twins.

And that was roughly 64%.

And so heritability estimates were somewhat higher for the parent's specific attachment

styles, roughly 51%. So what that means is that if you grew up in a household where, again,

you had a predominant attachment style within your parents, like if they were both avoidant,

it's much more likely that you will

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