Mikulincer Mario, Gillath Omri, Shaver Phillip R
Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2002 Oct;83(4):881-95.
Three studies explored the effects of subliminal threat on the activation of representations of attachment figures. This accessibility was measured in a lexical decision task and a Stroop task following threat- or neutral-word primes, and was compared with the accessibility of representations of other close persons, known but not close persons, and unknown persons. Participants also reported on their attachment style. Threat primes led to increased accessibility of representations of attachment figures. This effect was specific to attachment figures and was replicated across tasks and experiments. Attachment anxiety heightened accessibility of representations of attachment figures even in neutral contexts, whereas attachment avoidance inhibited this activation when the threat prime was the word separation. These effects were not, explained by trait anxiety. The discussion focuses on the dynamics of attachment-system activation in adulthood.
三项研究探讨了阈下威胁对依恋对象表征激活的影响。在呈现威胁或中性词启动刺激后，通过词汇判断任务和斯特鲁普任务来测量这种通达性，并将其与其他亲密之人、认识但不亲密之人以及陌生人的表征通达性进行比较。参与者还报告了他们的依恋风格。威胁启动刺激导致依恋对象表征的通达性增加。这种效应是依恋对象所特有的，并且在不同任务和实验中得到了重复验证。依恋焦虑即使在中性情境下也会提高依恋对象表征的通达性，而当威胁启动词为“分离”一词时，依恋回避则会抑制这种激活。这些效应无法用特质焦虑来解释。讨论聚焦于成年期依恋系统激活的动态过程。
