Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (1): 11-22.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.01.02

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Subliminally Security Priming Improve the Attention Processing among Females with Insecure Attachment

MA Yuanxiao, CHEN Xu   

  1. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715
  • Published:2019-01-30

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Abstract: Using event related potentials, the present study adopted subliminal affective priming paradigm to explore the improvement effect of subliminal security priming on the attentional processing of infant facial expressions within insecurely attached females. In support of our hypothesis, behavioral results indicated that with subliminal security priming, anxiously and avoidantly attached females performed better in observing crying infant faces in terms of lower rating of sadness level and longer fixation time. ERP results showed that subliminal security priming resulted in greater N1 and P3 amplitudes, as well as a more optimal P2 latency to crying infant faces than subliminal neutral priming in anxiously and avoidantly attached females. These results suggest that the subliminal security priming significantly improved the attention processing defect in insecure attachment, especially for attenuating the defensive response of avoidantly attached females. Moreover, the improvement effect of subliminal security priming not only exhibited in the early attention processing but also extended to the later controlled attention processing.

Key words: insecure attachment, attention processing defects, subliminally security priming, improvement effect, event-related potentials

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  • B844
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