Social value orientation and attachment: a replication and extension of Van Lange . (1997).

We report a replication and extension of a finding from Studies 1 and 2 of Van Lange .'s influential paper (Van Lange 1997 , 733-746. (doi:10.1037/0022-3514.73.4.733)), which showed an association between Social Value Orientation (SVO) and attachment security. We report a close replication but with measures of attachment that are considered superior in comparison to measures used by Van Lange ., due to subsequent psychometric improvements. Psychometric analyses indeed showed that our attachment measures were reliable and valid, demonstrating theoretically predicted associations with other outcomes. With a sample ( = 879) sufficiently large to detect = 0.19 (and larger than the original = 573), we failed to replicate the effect. Based on the available evidence, we interpret as there being no evidence for the link between attachment security and Social Value Orientation, but further replication research that uses solid measures and large samples can provide more definite conclusions about the association between attachment and SVO.