Activation of the attachment system in adulthood: threat-related primes increase the accessibility of mental representations of attachment figures.

By Mario Mikulincer, Omri Gillath, Phillip R. Shaver. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Attached to monogamy? Avoidance predicts willingness to engage (but not actual engagement) in consensual non-monogamy (2015, background): “In contrast, given that highly anxious individuals tend to experience extreme romantic jealousy (Mikulincer et al., 2002; Schachner & Shaver, 2002), we expected that anxious individuals would view CNM more negatively and be less willing to engage in CNM relationships.”
Attachment Theory and Affect Regulation: The Dynamics, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of Attachment-Related Strategies (2003, methodology): “In attempting to characterize the affect-regulation strategies associated with the functioning of the attachment system, we rely on Shaver and Mikulincer's model of the activation and dynamics of the attachment system (Shaver & Mikulincer, 2002).”
Adult Attachment Orientations, Stress, and Romantic Relationships (2012, background): “…experiments have confirmed that presenting people with subliminal or supraliminal threatening stimuli (e.g., threatening words, pictures) does increase the accessibility of mental representations of attachment figures (e.g., Mikulincer, Birnbaum, Woddis, & Nachmias, 2000; Mikulincer et al., 2002).”
Attachment, caregiving, and altruism: boosting attachment security increases compassion and helping. (2005, background): “…needs for self-protection and self-enhancement (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005) and allows a person to shift resources to other behavioral systems, including caregiving, and to take the other’s perspective (Mikulincer et al., 2002)—the key mechanism underlying altruistic helping (Batson, 1991, 2002).”
Complementary justice: effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" stereotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motive. (2003, methodology): “We therefore adopted the social cognitive assumptions that (a) reaction times can be used to assess cognitive accessibility resulting from threat (Hafer, 2000; MacLeod & Hodder, 1998; Mikulincer et al., 2002), and (b) as long as participants are kept from making any explicit link between the indepen”
An attachment-theoretical approach to compassion and altruism. (2005, background): “Once the attachment system is activated, a person automatically (either consciously or unconsciously; Mikulincer et al., 2002) asks whether or not an attachment figure is sufficiently available and responsive.”
Attachment theory at work: A review and directions for future research (2018, background): “Lexical decision attachment prime (Mikulincer et al., 2002) — Prime 1 —”
Insecure attachment predicts ambivalent social threat and reward perceptions in romantic relationships (2013, background): “Consistent with Mikulincer et al. (2010), we hypothesized that anxious attachment would predict more ambivalent perceptions of social threat and reward regarding romantic partners.”