Attachment working models were conceptualized from the perspective of current social-cognitive theory. In Studies l and 2, most people reported experience with multiple styles of relating; at the same time, the general attachment style they endorsed was related to (a) the percentage of their significant relationships fitting different attachment-style descriptions, (b) the ease with which they could generate exemplar relationships matching these descriptions, and (c) their interpersonal expectations in these relationships. In Study 3, priming different types of attachment experiences affected participants' attraction to potential dating partners who displayed particular attachment orientations. These findings suggest that most people possess relational schemas corresponding to a range of attachment orientations and that the relative availability and accessibility of this knowledge determine their thinking about relationships.

A self-disclosure explanation for why those with a secure attachment style report greater relationship satisfaction than those with alternate attachment styles was explored. Participants with different attachment styles were compared in terms of the self-disclosures they directed toward their partner and a stranger, using both questionnaire and behavioural measures. Behavioural self-disclosure was assessed by having participants give extemporaneous talks on different topics, while anticipating that either their current partner or an opposite-sex stranger would later hear it. As expected, those with a secure attachment style disclosed more intimately to their partners than to strangers; whereas those with fearful, preoccupied, or dismissing attachment styles did not. Moreover, secures disclosed more personal facts to their partners than to strangers and were also perceived as more comfortable while self-disclosing to partners than to strangers. Finally, support for the hypothesis that selfdisclosure mediates the relation between attachment style and relationship satisfaction was found on one component of self-disclosure: namely, facilitative disclosure -a component which included both reported self-disclosure to one's partner and self-rated ability to elicit disclosure from others. Implications of these findings for attachment style differences in relationship development are discussed.

We investigated whether the relationship advantages reported for individuals with a secure attachment style persisted over a 4-month time period. The temporal stability of two self-report measures of attachment style was also investigated. `Secures' reported consistent levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship costs, relationship commitment, trust for their partners. `Insecures' (i.e. avoidants and anxious/ambivalents) reported decreasing levels of satisfaction, commitment and trust along with increasing relationship costs. Insecurely attached individuals from ended relationships characterized their relationships more negatively than insecures from intact relationships. Both self-report measures of attachment style were characterized by considerable short-term temporal stability.

Theoretical models of the interpersonal roots of self-esteem emphasize people's expectations about whether they can anticipate acceptance and affiliation in significant relationships. Men and women (n ϭ 182), of high and low self-esteem, were compared in terms of their if-then expectations regarding interactions with significant others. Participants completed the Interpersonal Schema Questionnaire (Hill & Safran, 1994), which assesses the degree of affiliation and dominance that people expect from others. Overall, participants expected response complementarity, with their own friendliness leading to affiliation from others, and submission leading to dominance. Consistent with interpersonal models of self-esteem, high self-esteem individuals reported greater confidence that being friendly would draw affiliative responses from others. Compared with men, women expected more affiliative responses to their friendly overtures, and also expected affiliative responses to submissiveness. KEY WORDS • interpersonal expectations • self-esteem • sexPeople often anticipate very different things in their interactions with others: One person expects that being warm and friendly toward others will elicit warmth in response; another anticipates that being warm and friendly will instead lead to being manipulated or dominated. Interpersonal expectations of this sort are thought to strongly influence people's social perceptions, sense of self, and behavior in relationships (e.g., Cantor & Kihlstrom, 1985;Mischel, 1973).

The relation of childhood and early adolescent social experiences with young women's concern over physical appearance (appearance anxiety) in late adolescence and early adulthood was examined. Female under‐graduates completed questionnaires assessing appearance anxiety and a questionnaire assessing childhood and early adolescent experiences hypothesized to relate to appearance anxiety as well as current behaviors hypothesized to reflect it. The results suggest that appearance anxiety in women is related to reported negative social experiences in childhood and early adolescence. These experiences were suggested to lead to dissatis‐faction with their childhood and early adolescent appearances which in turn was related to appearance anxiety in late adolescence and early adulthood. Appearance anxiety was also found to be related to current social experiences. The most obvious manifestation of appearance anxiety in young women was relatively greater reported attention to improving their appearance.