Adult attachment style and affect regulation: Strategic variations in subjective self–other similarity.

Mikulincer, Mario; Orbach, Israel; Iavnieli, Daria

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.75.2.436

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“…Overall, the evidence is consistent with our model. People higher in anxious-ambivalence are more likely to turn to others for help with regulating their negative feelings, whereas those who are more avoidant distance themselves from others (e.g., Collins & Feeney, 2000;Mikulincer, 1998;Mikulincer, Florian, & Weller, 1993;Mikulincer, Orbach, & Iavnieli, 1998;Ognibene & Collins, 1998;Pietromonaco & Feldman Barrett, in press;Simpson, Rholes, & Nelligan, 1992). Indeed, for people high in attachment anxiety, the experimental activation of attachment security (i.e., via subliminally priming the word "love"), which may evoke a representation of an attachment figure, appears to provide a comforting or soothing effect by reducing the accessibility of terror-related words (Mikulincer, Shaver, & Horesh, this volume).…”

Section: Empirical Foundationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adult Attachment Theory and Affective Reactivity and Regulation.

Pietromonaco¹,

Barrett²,

Powers³

2006

Emotion Regulation in Couples and Families: Pathways to Dysfunction and Health.

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emphasizes the emotional nature of close bonds between two people. Bowlby's original theory, which focused on understanding the close, enduring bonds between infants and their caregivers, highlighted two ways in which emotion is implicated in attachment. First, when infants experience emotional distress, they seek proximity to their caregiver. Second, caregivers who are sensitive and responsive are able to help infants regulate their feelings of distress, enabling them to experience an emotional sense of well-being or "felt security" (Sroufe & Waters, 1997). Research on attachment in adult close relationships (e.g., romantic relationships), which are the focus of this chapter, also has highlighted the connection between attachment and emotion (e.g., Kazan & Shaver, 1987;Pietromonaco & Feldman Barrett, 2000). Like children, when adults become distressed in the face of a threat, they may seek out an attachment figure in an attempt to regain an emotional sense of felt security (Simpson & Rholes, 1994).

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confidence: 99%

Adult Attachment Theory and Affective Reactivity and Regulation.

Pietromonaco¹,

Barrett²,

Powers³

2006

Emotion Regulation in Couples and Families: Pathways to Dysfunction and Health.

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“…Team identification explains the link between the need to belong and the emotional attachment to people and objects that are linked to the same shared social identity (Baumeister & Leary, 1995;Hogg & Turner, 1985;Prentice, Miller, & Lightdale, 1994). In fact, sharing a social identity has been shown to be a strong facilitator of emotional attachment in groups (Mikulincer, Orbach, & Iavnieli, 1998;Rom & Mikulincer, 2003).…”

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Emotional Attachment, Performance, and Viability in Teams Collaborating with Embodied Physical Action (EPA) Robots

You¹,

Robert²

2018

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110

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Although different types of teams increasingly employ embodied physical action (EPA) robots as a collaborative technology to accomplish their work, we know very little about what makes such teams successful. This paper has two objectives: the first is to examine whether a team's emotional attachment to its robots can lead to better team performance and viability; the second is to determine whether robot and team identification can promote a team's emotional attachment to its robots. To achieve these objectives, we conducted a between-subjects experiment with 57 teams working with robots. Teams performed better and were more viable when they were emotionally attached to their robots. Both robot and team identification increased a team's emotional attachment to its robots. Results of this study have implications for collaboration using EPA robots specifically and for collaboration technology in general.

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“…In one further fascinating adjunct, state elevations in psychopathy roused by territorial incursion, also have implications for the activation hypothesis of attachment theory [23][24][25][26]. Although results are preliminary (because a second experiment is required to test attachment anxiety and avoidance), state elevations in psychopathy might facilitate increases in directional heightening of anxiety and avoidance responses, yet without compromising secure attachment.…”

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“…A second significant shift in the attachment literature occurred with the reductionism that grew out of theory from the activation hypothesis [23][24][25][26] and how it was applied to attachment theory. When the attachment system is activated under conditions of perceived threat significant difficulties emerge, such as disruption of attachment bonds, conflict, emotional difficulties and abandonment.…”

Section: Attachment Theory Core Constructs For Bridging With the Adapmentioning

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Adaptive Psychopathy: The Quarantine Vector and Attachment

Mihailides¹,

Galligan²,

Bates³

2017

J Foren Psy

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This work extends the Directional Vector hypothesis of psychopathy theory into attachment theory. The tenets of the Adaptive Psychopathy hypothesis are developed within evolutionary psychology, which posits that birthright equips the human being with a psychopathic modular mind, in addition to the innate capacity to empathise. According to theory, territorial incursion by perceived 'predatory', invading morally deviant outsiders, elicits a survival threat, activating the psychopathic mind, resulting in elevations in state psychopathy levels. Extended to an attachment framework, territoriality over children and child-rearing practices implicates directional, quarantined psychopathy with protective care of offspring and with care of significant others. Five directional hypotheses were developed, one for each of the five-factors of the Feeney and Noller attachment measure, with significant implications for the Directional Vector hypothesis. Participants' confidence in their close loved ones did not change under the psychopathy induction, but their attachment confidence decreased for others who were moral deviants. Strong evidence of quarantining and directionality was observed, because psychopathy induction concurrently decreased attachment need for approval in one's close loved ones, whilst also increasing a sense that relationships are secondary. However, rousing territorial survival threat also reduced discomfort in close personal relationships, whilst stabilising attachment preoccupation. Findings suggest that increases in state levels of psychopathy, result in self-focussed, survival-based thinking, which has concurrent self-soothing effects of attachment cognition. Attachment processes for survival-based thinking converge with the psychopathy literature in a definable way. For normal range psychopathy, despite increased selffocus, a survival threat increases capacity for attachment intimacy, and preserves capacity for empathy. Results have implications for the hyper-activation hypothesis of attachment theory. Implications note that Directional Vectors for self and other, collapsed in current anxiety and avoidance measures, may run in varied or opposing directions. Thus, hyper-activation under psychopathy induction may preserve or even enhance attachment security, preventing disengagement strategies, whilst also preventing hyper-activation of anxiety. Implications are summarised under the Fortified Cognition hypothesis.

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Adult attachment style and affect regulation: Strategic variations in subjective self–other similarity.

Cited by 157 publications

References 35 publications

Adult Attachment Theory and Affective Reactivity and Regulation.

Adult Attachment Theory and Affective Reactivity and Regulation.

Emotional Attachment, Performance, and Viability in Teams Collaborating with Embodied Physical Action (EPA) Robots

Adaptive Psychopathy: The Quarantine Vector and Attachment

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