{
  "id": 2069497,
  "title": "People who imagine their future without anyone else in it aren’t loners by nature — new research suggests it’s a learned defense that quietly collapses the moment the imagined future turns stressful",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/people-who-imagine-their-future-without-anyone-else-in-it-arent",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-20T03:00:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/anxious-attachment-is-linked-to-populating-future-daydreams-with-other-people-study-finds/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A recent psychological study reveals that our deeply ingrained relationship habits dictate how we mentally simulate the future. Anxiously attached individuals imagine highly social futures, whereas avoidant individuals envision scenarios with far fewer interpersonal ties.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}