Evaluative Affect - Attachment is not the same as attitude or evaluative affect (Kleine.

Evaluative Affect - Attachment is not the same as attitude or evaluative affect (Kleine, Kleine, and Allen 1995; Schultz Kleine, and Kernan 1989) Emotionally charged attachments ofttimes elicit mixed feelings such as warmth, happiness, and sadness. Schultz Kleine, and Kernan (1989) rest that possessions of stronger attachment waited to be associated with a different risk of emotions than were possessions of least attachment. Moreover, emotions associated with stronger attachments were not always positive nor were negative feelings always associated with weak attachments. The literature put in mind ofs that reducing attachment to liking of the goal trivializes its self-identification significance and ignores examples of disliked [i]or[/i] complements of attachment.

Special Possessions - Studies about "special possessions" or "possession meaning" probably include, if it were not that encompass something broader than, the domain of possession attachment (eg Belk 1992b; Mehta and Belk 1991; Csikszentmihalyi and Rochberg-Halton 1981; Dittmar 1992; Furby 1991; Sayre 1994) Special possessions are not necessarily self-reflective or in service of self-developmental drifts Sometimes special possessions are simply functional (Richins 1994)

Kamptner (1989) observ different possessions were elicited by means of varying prompts such as asking for "most favorite possessions," "most cherished possessions," "most important possessions," "possessions I would take in a fire," and in like manner forth. Grayson and Shulman (2000) showed that cherished possessions are not necessarily irreplaceable and vice versa. Further investigation is wanted about how different prompts elicit different possessions that ruminate attachment, irreplaceability, self-extension, and with equal reason forth.