Ed condition, higher attachment purchase Digitoxin avoidance corresponded with 
a higher Dihydroartemisinin cost quantity of cereal, 
b = 12.02, p < 0.001 (see Figure 4). In the alone condition, the link between attachment avoidance and weight of cereals was not significant, b = 2.02. In line with our prediction, attachment avoidance was linked with greater allocation of sugar-rich food specifically in the paired condition. It seems that secure individuals can benefit from the presence of others while performing a stressful task. As a result,Materials and Methods ParticipantsOne-hundred-and-fifteen Israeli undergraduate students (65 women and 50 men), ranging in age from 18 to 33 years (Mdn = 22), from the IDC, Herzliya participated in the study for course credit. Study 4 was approved by the IDC Herzliya's IRB.Measures and Procedure Participants were invited to IDC's laboratory complex between 11 and 12 AM either alone or in pairs. They were told that in order toFrontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.orgApril 2015 | Volume 6 | ArticleEin-Dor et al.Avoidant attachment and glucoseFIGURE 4 | Probing the interaction between attachment avoidance and condition in predicting the weight of cereals. Only in the paired condition, the higher the attachment avoidance, the greater the amount of cereals allocated.they are less exhausted and/or expect to need a lower amount of metabolic resources at the aftermath of the task. Avoidant people share no such expectation, and hence, they may be more exhausted and/or expect to need a greater amount of metabolic resources as compared with secure people.General DiscussionEconomy of action--a principal of biological systems--posits that all organisms must take in more energy than they expend if they are to survive, grow, and reproduce (Proffitt, 2006; Gross and Proffitt, 2013). In practice, the economy of action principle creates pressure for all organisms to conserve resources whenever possible. Recently, Coan and colleagues (Beckes and Coan, 2011; Coan and Sbarra, 2015) proposed that socially oriented people conserve, on average and in the aggregate, more energy than asocial people, because they construe--in largely implicit ways--social relationships as opportunities to conserve resources by sharing the load of life's myriad situational demands (Coan et al., 2006). In the studies reported here, we have examined the possibility that people who tend to avoid social resources would devote higher levels of a rapidly deployable metabolic resource--glucose--to their bloodstream and to consume more sugar-rich food, in order to increase their all-purpose access to that resource. That is because they are not disposed to share the cost of many of life's metabolically expensive activities, from physical labor to complex decisionmaking, problem solving and vigilance for threats. Specifically, we hypothesized that people high in attachment avoidance would maintain higher basal levels of glucose--the predominant organic fuel for a multitude of biosynthetic processes, including cerebral metabolism (Vannucci and Vannucci, 2000)--and consume more sugary foods. Results supported these hypotheses. In Study 1, we found that women who chronically tend to distance themselves from social resources--those high in attachment avoidance--maintained higher fasting basal glucose levels than more socially oriented women. In Study 2, we replicated the results of Study 1 in adifferent culture, among women as well as men, from a different age group, and using a different measure.Ed condition, higher attachment avoidance corresponded with a higher quantity of cereal, b = 12.02, p < 0.001 (see Figure 4). In the alone condition, the link between attachment avoidance and weight of cereals was not significant, b = 2.02. In line with our prediction, attachment avoidance was linked with greater allocation of sugar-rich food specifically in the paired condition. It seems that secure individuals can benefit from the presence of others while performing a stressful task. As a result,Materials and Methods ParticipantsOne-hundred-and-fifteen Israeli undergraduate students (65 women and 50 men), ranging in age from 18 to 33 years (Mdn = 22), from the IDC, Herzliya participated in the study for course credit. Study 4 was approved by the IDC Herzliya's IRB.Measures and Procedure Participants were invited to IDC's laboratory complex between 11 and 12 AM either alone or in pairs. They were told that in order toFrontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.orgApril 2015 | Volume 6 | ArticleEin-Dor et al.Avoidant attachment and glucoseFIGURE 4 | Probing the interaction between attachment avoidance and condition in predicting the weight of cereals. Only in the paired condition, the higher the attachment avoidance, the greater the amount of cereals allocated.they are less exhausted and/or expect to need a lower amount of metabolic resources at the aftermath of the task. Avoidant people share no such expectation, and hence, they may be more exhausted and/or expect to need a greater amount of metabolic resources as compared with secure people.General DiscussionEconomy of action--a principal of biological systems--posits that all organisms must take in more energy than they expend if they are to survive, grow, and reproduce (Proffitt, 2006; Gross and Proffitt, 2013). In practice, the economy of action principle creates pressure for all organisms to conserve resources whenever possible. Recently, Coan and colleagues (Beckes and Coan, 2011; Coan and Sbarra, 2015) proposed that socially oriented people conserve, on average and in the aggregate, more energy than asocial people, because they construe--in largely implicit ways--social relationships as opportunities to conserve resources by sharing the load of life's myriad situational demands (Coan et al., 2006). In the studies reported here, we have examined the possibility that people who tend to avoid social resources would devote higher levels of a rapidly deployable metabolic resource--glucose--to their bloodstream and to consume more sugar-rich food, in order to increase their all-purpose access to that resource. That is because they are not disposed to share the cost of many of life's metabolically expensive activities, from physical labor to complex decisionmaking, problem solving and vigilance for threats. Specifically, we hypothesized that people high in attachment avoidance would maintain higher basal levels of glucose--the predominant organic fuel for a multitude of biosynthetic processes, including cerebral metabolism (Vannucci and Vannucci, 2000)--and consume more sugary foods. Results supported these hypotheses. In Study 1, we found that women who chronically tend to distance themselves from social resources--those high in attachment avoidance--maintained higher fasting basal glucose levels than more socially oriented women. In Study 2, we replicated the results of Study 1 in adifferent culture, among women as well as men, from a different age group, and using a different measure.