Social Mentalities Scale

Brasini, Maurizio; Tanzilli, Annalisa; Pistella, Jessica; Gentile, Daniela; Marco, Ivan Di; Mancini, Francesco; Lingiardi, Vittorio; Baiocco, Roberto

doi:10.1037/t82390-000

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“…In general, "attachment phenomena and processes in childhood are systematically linked to the enactment of different reproductive strategies in adulthood" (Simpson and Belsky, 2016, p.92). From a cognitive goal-belief perspective, this link corresponds to a tight connection between our intrinsic motivational systems (goals) (Liotti et al, 2017;Schaller et al, 2017;Brasini et al, 2020) and attachment dimensions (beliefs). Indeed, the specific adaptive advantage given by each dimension can be understood by considering its impact on a particular motivational system.…”

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The role of developmental caregiving programming in modulating our affiliation tendency and the vulnerability to social anxiety and eating disorders

Gagliardi

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Attachment is the evolutionarily-established process through which humans create bonds with others to receive care from them. The phenomenon is as essential to our physical survival as it is to our psychological development. An increasing number of studies demonstrates that in sensitive periods during the early years of life, our brain circuitry is programmed in the interactions with our caregivers, with the imprinting of information over multiple attachment dimensions. Adopting a basic brain-computer analogy, we can think of this knowledge as the psycho-social firmware of our mind. According to a recently proposed extension of the classical three-dimensional view, one attachment dimension – somaticity – concerns the caregiver’s task of reflecting and confirming the child’s (internal) states – such as sensations, emotions, and representations – to support the child’s ability to identify and define those entities autonomously. Relying on multidisciplinary evidence – from neuroscientific, developmental, evolutionary, and clinical sources – we suggest that somaticity (H1) has the adaptive function to modulate our tendency to comply and affiliate with a reference group but also (H2) increases the vulnerability to developing Social Anxiety (SA) and Eating Disorders (EDs). We evaluate H1-H2, (1) indicating the evolutionary role of somaticity in modulating our affiliation tendency to optimize the ancestral threat-opportunity balance coming from infectious diseases and (2) showing the deep connection between SA-EDs and the features most closely related to somaticity – interoception and parenting style. Finally, we discuss three relevant implications of H1-H2: (A) Bringing into research focus the adaptive role of our firmware knowledge system versus the hardware (neural substrate) and software (higher cognition) ones. (B) Complementing the well-grounded Objectification and Allocentric Lock Theories, allowing us to integrate multiple levels of explanation on the etiology of psychopathology. (C) Suggesting the design of new psychological treatments. While not aiming to prove H1-H2, our analysis supports them and encourages their direct testing.

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Section: Avoidance and Ambivalencementioning

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The role of developmental caregiving programming in modulating our affiliation tendency and the vulnerability to social anxiety and eating disorders

Gagliardi

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Social Mentalities Scale

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The role of developmental caregiving programming in modulating our affiliation tendency and the vulnerability to social anxiety and eating disorders

The role of developmental caregiving programming in modulating our affiliation tendency and the vulnerability to social anxiety and eating disorders

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