Do Infant Faces Maintain the Attention of Adults With High Avoidant Attachment?

ABSTRACT: We investigated whether adults have attentional bias toward infant faces, whether it is moderated by infant facial expression, and the predictive effect of the adult attachment state on it. One hundred unmarried nulliparous college students [50 men and 50 women; aged 17-24 years (M = 19.70, SD = 1.35)] were recruited. Each completed a self-report questionnaire-the Chinese version of the State Adult Attachment Measure (SAAM), and a dot-probe task with a stimulus presentation duration of 500 ms, which used 192 black-and-white photographs of 64 people (32 infants and 32 adults; each person displayed three expressions: happy, neutral, and sad) as the experimental stimuli. The results showed that, at the duration of 500 ms, individuals' attentional bias toward infant faces disappeared, r

SUBMITTER: Long N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8137973 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature