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Attachment security priming: a systematic review

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posted on 2019-02-01, 00:00 authored by Omri Gillath, Gery KarantzasGery Karantzas
Attachment security priming has been used to shed light on the cognitive processes related to attachment internal working models as well as the cognitive substrates of people's attachment-related affect and behavior. Security primes activate a sense of attachment security by making mental representations in one's memory more accessible and salient. In the current paper, we report on a qualitative synthesis of 20 studies published in the last two years to determine the effects of security priming. We found that supraliminally administered security priming (especially via guided imagery or visualization) is associated with beneficial effects across a diverse set of domains. The effects were especially strong among anxiously attached individuals.

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Journal

Current opinion in psychology

Volume

25

Pagination

86 - 95

Publisher

Elsevier

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

eISSN

2352-2518

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2019, Elsevier

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