The Effects of Repeated Attachment Security Priming on Social Anxiety and Attention Bias: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Background: Although the clinical utility of attachment security priming has been suggested in recent years, the effect of attachment security priming on social anxiety and its core symptoms (i.e., attention bias) remains unspecified.
Shuang Zhang +4 more
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Effects of attachment security priming on women’s math performance [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionActivating people’s sense of attachment security can buffer against psychological threats. Here we tested whether security priming can also buffer the adverse effects of stereotype threat among women.MethodThree studies (a pilot study (N = 79
Antonio Soares De Almeida +3 more
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Attachment Security Priming Delayed Negative Information-Related Attentional Disengagement Among Anxiously Attached Individuals: Evidence From Behavioral and Functional MRI Experiments [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Although attachment security has been found to attenuate people’s experience of unpleasant information, how it modulates the attentional process toward such information remains unknown.
Beiyi Wang +10 more
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Attachment Security Priming Affecting Mating Strategies Endorsement among College Students [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2022 Exposure to environmental cues reflecting potential threats to future survivability is associated with a stronger endorsement of short-term mating strategies. Less is known, however, about the effects of safety and security cues.
Maximiliane Uhlich +3 more
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The effects of attachment security priming on posttraumatic appraisals among individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder [PDF]
European Journal of PsychotraumatologyBackground: Research has shown strong links between attachment insecurity and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Individuals with insecure attachment are more likely to have internal working models that are associated with appraisals important in PTSD,
Sally Hopwood +2 more
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The cognitive compass of attachment: how primed security and insecurity navigate mental representations [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundThis study examined the domain-specific patterns associated with supraliminal attachment priming on the cognitive accessibility of attachment-related mental representations.MethodsSeventy participants were randomly assigned to one of three ...
Anna Kamza
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Attachment based priming reduces anxiety during the exam period in female university students when adjusting for baseline perceived stress and anxiety [PDF]
Discover Mental HealthAttachment security priming has shown promise in reducing anxiety in controlled experiments, yet its application and effectiveness in real-world educational settings remain underexplored. This study investigated whether a brief, single-session attachment-
Elena Lisá, Katarína Kovalčíková
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Highly optimistic explanatory style (HOES) and highly pessimistic explanatory style (HPES) are two maladaptive ways to explain the world and may have roots in attachment insecurity.
Yanhe Deng +7 more
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The Effectiveness of Attachment Security Priming in Improving Positive Affect and Reducing Negative Affect: A Systematic Review [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Angela C Rowe, Katherine B Carnelley
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Attachment-security priming attenuates amygdala activation to social and linguistic threat [PDF]
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2015 Luke Norman +2 more
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