Thread:Vimitsu/@comment-25308539-20140922155639/@comment-24162773-20140923022243

Regarding the images: I'm not sure what you're referring to, a link would be helpful.

As for the blog post, I would first like to thank you the compliments and corrections, to get that out of the way ^&^

Well, I should make clear that I am not a psychologist, nor have I even taken a real course on the subject. The article wasn't really intended to be a professional psychological paper, so I wasn't so diligent with the references and such. I really only wanted to take a glance at how surprisingly deep and revealing the existence of the tsundere is. In general, I do like to learn about things that most people take for granted.

Since you obviously have more experience than me in psychology, I definitely appreciate your ideas here. Attachment theory is a universe of its own, but after just a brief look at the Wikipedia page I can see how the "Fearful-avoidant" attachment style is a little suggestive of the tsundere. It is true that the tsundere, however, is a bit more extreme, being an anime stereotype, and might show something about attachment theory taken to an extreme.

You mention "flattery" and "positive affect", which I don't have the time to research, but based on your explanation I can see how that fits in as well. In the last paragraph of the "Gain-loss effect" section of the article, I hypothesized that people have tended to associate the typical emotional insecurity with the character development of warming over time, which blurs the two and makes people expect one with the other. Perhaps the "flattery" has something to do with characters building the developing relationships - although it seems to refer somewhat more to the "secure male" component of the relationship, whereas I can think of some "double-tsundere" relationships.

Anyway, I'm pretty busy with schoolwork and such so this comment is somewhat rushed. Writing the post was fun, but also exhausting, so I need a break from anime-psychology for at least a few days. Or maybe not.