Avoiding Interference: Adult Attachment and Emotional Processing Biases

Avoiding interference: adult attachment and emotional processing biases.

The present study investigated attachment-related differences in emotional processing biases. Consistent with the proposal that avoidant individuals limit attention to potentially distressing information, attachment avoidance was associated with reductions in emotional Stroop (ES) interference for attachment-related words (e.g., intimate, loss). These biases were strongest among individuals who...

Adult attachment and emotional processing biases: an event-related potentials (ERPs) study.

Attachment-related electrophysiological differences in emotional processing biases were examined using Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). We identified ERP correlates of emotional processing by comparing ERPs elicited in trials with angry and neutral faces. These emotional expression effects were then compared across groups with secure, anxious and avoidant attachment orientations. Results reveal...

Adult attachment, emotional control, and marital satisfaction

This study extends previous research into the relations among attachment style, emotional experience, and emotional control. Questionnaire measures of these variables were completed by a broad sample of 238 married couples. Continuous measures of attachment showed that insecure attachment (low Comfort with closeness; high Anxiety over relationships) was related to greater control of emotion, re...

Adult Attachment and the Perceptual Processing of Emotional Information: Grant report

Exposure and emotional processing

  the effectiveness of exposure treatment for different types of anxiety disorders has been well established.overall,effective techniques to reduce fear or anxiety involve exposing the patient to distressing situation until he/she adapts to situation.desensitization,flooding,implosion,modeling,cagnitive rehearsal,and even some traditional strategies can all be viewed as variations of the techn...