Adult Attachment Style and Cognitive Reactions to Positive Affect: A Test of Mental Categorization and Creative Problem Solving

By Mario Mikulincer, Elka Sheffi. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Mental Representations of Attachment Security: Theoretical Foundation for a Positive Social Psychology. (2005, background): “…are associated with better functioning in conflictual interpersonal interactions (e.g., Simpson et al., 1996), more creative problem solving (Mikulincer & Sheffi, 2000), better maintenance of task performance following an uncontrollable failure (Mikulincer & Florian, 1998), and better…”
Avoidant Attachment: Exploration of an Oxymoron. (2004, background): “They are cut off from their own emotional memories (Mikulincer & Orbach, 1995), out of touch with some of their own deep fears (e.g., of death, Mikulincer et al., 1990), and unaffected by infusions of positive affect (Mikulincer & Sheffi, 2000).”
Integrating attachment style, vigor at work, and extra‐role performance (2011, background): “Securely attached individuals rely on basic guidelines of the attachment system: acknowledging emotional arousal, engaging in instrumental action, asking for others’ support, and hoping for successful management of the situation (Mikulincer & Sheffi, 2000).”
Emotional reactions and regulatory responses to negative and positive events: Associations with attachment and gender (2010, background): “To our knowledge, ER with positive emotions has not been examined in relation to attachment, but research suggests that attachment security may be associated with a greater capacity to experience or reap benefits from PA (Diamond and Aspinwall 2003; Kerns et al. 2007; Mikulincer and Sheffi 2000).”
Affect and Creativity at Work (2005, background): “Affective illness may involve processes that, perhaps in combination with cognitive or personality traits, reverse the usual connection between positive affect and creativity (see Mikulincer and Sheffi, 2000, for some empirical evidence).”
Seeing and mastering difficulty: The role of affective change in achievement flow (2010, background): “Second, Mikulincer and Sheffi (2000) found well-documented reactions to positive affect such as broader categorisation (Isen, 1987) to be absent in avoidant individuals.”
Leading to Stimulate Employees' Ideas: A Quantitative Review of Leader–Member Exchange, Employee Voice, Creativity, and Innovative Behavior (2017, background): “The association between relationships characterised by secure attachment and generative outcomes is well established in the experimental literature (e.g. Elliot & Reis, 2003; Mikulincer & Sheffi, 2000).”
Attachment Theory and Affect Regulation: The Dynamics, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of Attachment-Related Strategies (2003, background): “In a recent series of studies, Mikulincer and Sheffi (2000) hypothesized that, although attachment-related strategies were originally developed to regulate distress, they can also shape a person’s cognitive responses to positive affect.”