Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: t -The influence of adult attachment.representations on two aspects of cognitive processingemotion encoding and memorywas examined.In Study 1, 154' students from introductory psychology courses completed self-report attachment measures and then ratedlbur types of facial expressions (happy, sad, angG, a i d Y .' .fearful) for emotion intens\ty.Contrary to predictions, intensity'ratings did not differ as a function of attachment schemas (secure, preoccupied.fearful, and dismissing).In Study 2, 106 students from introductory psycholog; cowses completed self-.report attachment measures and then imagined themselves in, and later recalled, hypothetical events.Events in attachment-relevancy and tapped five 5'themes: high anxiety, low avoidance, and happiness.Only some hypothesized associations between attachment schemas and memory were " supported.Consistent with preferential processing of schema-consistent information, security was associated with increased recall, and fearfulness and dismissiveness were associated with decreased recall of attachment-relevant happy events.In addition, dismissiveness was asqociated with increased recall of attachment-relevant avoidant events.Discussion focusses on'the strengths and weaknesses of studying attachment, related individual differences in cognitive functioning within a laboratory context." iii I would like to thank members of my supervisory committee, Cathy McFarland and Vito Modigliani for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this thesis.
Source: Summit (Simon Fraser University)
Author: Jennifer Amy Forbes Poole
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W37623678