# Metadata Source URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory#Disorganized/disoriented_attachment Topics:: #romantic, #humans --- # Attachment theory - Wikipedia ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 071122_121444 > > Infant behaviours in the Strange Situation Protocol coded as disorganized/disoriented include overt displays of fear; contradictory behaviours or affects occurring simultaneously or sequentially; stereotypic, asymmetric, misdirected or jerky movements; or freezing and apparent dissociation. Lyons-Ruth has urged, however, that it should be more widely "recognized that 52% of disorganized infants continue to approach the caregiver, seek comfort, and cease their distress without clear ambivalent or avoidant behavior