1. SOCIAL RELATIONS AND SELF Bretherton & Munholland
Working model of self is constructed in interaction with primary caregiver(s).
Positive model: Emotionally available, responsive, communicative caregiver
Negative model: Rejecting or inconsistent caregiver, lack of open, honest communication.

2. Need for developmental, process-oriented research.
Automatic processing  stability, intergenerational transmission, bias toward new relations.
Defensive exclusion of rejection makes negative models especially resistant to change.
Reflected in lack of coherence in personal attachment narratives.  
Need for developmental, process-oriented research.

3. Anderson & Chen: Five Propositions
Relational selves are produced by profound importance of multiple significant others (chosen and given). Evolve, are revised over time.
Emerge in context of transference. Similarity of new person in current context (transient source of accessibility) activates chronically accessible relational self into working memory.
Relations with significant others include idiographic elements (exemplars) and generic, socially shared constructs (roles, normative expectations, self standards).

4. A basis for interactional model of personality
A basis for interactional model of personality. Differential activation of relational selves in different contexts  variability. Chronic accessibility of relational selves  continuity.
Significant other representations and associated self-knowledge are cognitive-affective units in If-Then model of personality. (If person activates transference from particular relational self, then associated interpretations, affective, motivational, and behavioral responses are activated.