Secure Attachment Priming Amplifies Approach Motivation for Infant Faces Among Childless Adults.

ABSTRACT: Existing studies have indicated that priming secure attachment alters adults' neural responses to infant faces. However, no study has examined whether this effect exists for motivational behavioral responses, and none of the previous studies included adult faces as a baseline to determine whether the security prime enhances responses to human faces in general or infant faces alone. To address this limitation, the current study recruited 160 unmarried and childless adults in the first phase, and all of them completed a battery of questionnaires, including the Interest in Infants, the Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR), and State Adult Attachment Measure (SAAM). A week later, after priming, 152 (76 security-primed vs. 76 neutrally primed) participants completed the SAAM and a behaviora

SUBMITTER: Ding F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8578675 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature