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 balances perspectives: Effects of security priming on highly optimistic and pessimistic explanatory styles [PDF]
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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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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The Study of Security Priming on Avoidant Attentional Biases: Combining Microsaccadic Eye-Movement Measurement With a Dot-Probe Task [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Microsaccades are small fixational eye movements that have shown to index covert attentional shifts. The present experiment combined microsaccades with performance measures from a dot-probe task to study influences of attachment security priming on the ...
Rebecca Louise Mellor, Elia Psouni
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Attachment anxiety benefits from security priming: Evidence from working memory performance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The present study investigates the relationship between the attachment dimensions (anxious vs. avoidance) and the cognitive performance of individuals, specifically whether the attachment dimensions would predict the working memory (WM) performance.
Ahu Gokce, Mehmet Harma
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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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Impact of digital nudging on information security behavior: an experimental study on framing and priming in cybersecurity [PDF]
Organizational Cybersecurity Journal, 2021 Purpose – Phishing attacks are the most common cyber threats targeted at users. Digital nudging in the form of framing and priming may reduce user susceptibility to phishing. This research focuses on two types of digital nudging, framing and priming, and
Kavya Sharma +4 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 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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