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Adult attachment and attentional inhibition of interpersonal stimuli
- Source :
- COGNITION & EMOTION
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- In two studies, we used a negative affective priming task with pictures of angry (Study 1), sad (Study 2), and happy faces (Studies 1 and 2) to measure attentional inhibition of emotional stimuli as a function of attachment style. Results showed that attachment avoidance was associated with a stronger inhibition of both angry and sad faces. This indicates that the regulatory strategies of avoidant individuals involve inhibition of different types of negative, but not positive, stimuli. Attachment anxiety, on the other hand, showed no association with inhibitory responding to negative stimuli, although we did find indications of impaired inhibitory processing of happy faces in Study 1. The results are discussed in relation to current evidence on avoidant affect-regulation strategies.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
INFORMATION
Adolescent
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Emotions
Happiness
Social Sciences
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Interpersonal communication
Attentional inhibition
Anger
Anxiety
Neuropsychological Tests
Developmental psychology
MECHANISMS
ACTIVATION
Young Adult
EXPRESSIONS
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Perception
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Attachment theory
Avoidance Learning
Humans
Attention
Interpersonal Relations
Association (psychology)
PERSPECTIVE
INTIMATE-RELATIONSHIPS
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Inhibition
INTERFERENCE
PERCEPTION
Emotion regulation
Perspective (graphical)
MEMORY
Emotional stimuli
Facial Expression
Inhibition, Psychological
Avoidance
Negative priming
Adult attachment
LATENT-VARIABLE ANALYSIS
Female
Psychology
Photic Stimulation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14640600 and 02699931
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cognitionemotion
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bcc8a9e1c1fba86a3ab7fd49cc6cf3da