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Bad Parenting Pays Off! Insecure People May Play Key Role In Survival Of Their 'Group'

HERE'S A TRICK QUESTION:

You know that easygoing, fun, secure guy who's wife is guarded and distrustful? Which one do you think you'd want around when the going gets tough?

A new psychological study suggests you might live longer with that insecure woman.

That's because researchers found that groups that include an individual with an "insecure attachment" personality react more quickly to perceived threats, or in the study's example, smoke created by a concealed smoke machine.

"Secure people have disadvantages," the study's author, Tsachi Ein-Dor of the New School of Psychology in Herzliya, Israel, told LiveScience. They react slowly and then act slowly because they need to first get organized."

Ein-Dor says that humans may have evolved to live in mixed groups of "secure" and "insecure" individuals -- a hypothesis supported by evidence that almost half of all people in the world have insecure attachment styles, he maintains.

The takeaway message: parental neglect has its rewards! Those hard-learned lessons growing up learned while fending for yourself might help save the "group."