University of Kansas, Department of Psychology, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
Int J Psychophysiol. 2013 Jun;88(3):232-40. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.08.013. Epub 2012 Aug 30.
The sense of attachment security has been linked with a host of beneficial outcomes related to personal and relational well-being. Moreover, research has demonstrated that the sense of attachment security can be enhanced via cognitive priming techniques. Studies using such techniques have shown that security priming results with similar outcomes as dispositional attachment security. The way security priming leads to these effects, however, is yet to be unveiled. Using fMRI we took one step in that direction and examined the neural mechanisms underlying enhanced attachment security. Participants were exposed to explicit and implicit security- and insecurity-related words. Security priming led to co-occurring activation in brain areas reflective of cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes (e.g., medial frontal cortex, parahippocampus, BA 6). There were activation differences based on attachment style. This research serves as an important step in mapping out the security process and supports a conceptualization of security as part of a behavioral system with multiple components.
依附关系安全感与许多与个人和人际关系幸福相关的有益结果有关。此外，研究表明，依附关系安全感可以通过认知启动技术得到增强。使用这些技术的研究表明，安全启动的结果与特质依附关系安全感相似。然而，安全启动导致这些效果的方式尚未被揭示。我们使用 fMRI 朝着这个方向迈出了一步，研究了增强依附关系安全感的神经机制。参与者接触了明确和隐含的与安全和不安全相关的单词。安全启动导致大脑中反映认知、情感和行为过程的区域同时激活（例如，内侧前额叶皮质、海马旁回、BA6）。根据依恋风格存在激活差异。这项研究是阐明安全过程的重要一步，支持将安全概念化为具有多个组成部分的行为系统的一部分。
