Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study

Kungl, Melanie; Vrtička, Pascal; Heinisch, Christine; Beckmann, Matthias W.; Fasching, Peter A.; Ziegler, Clara; Spangler, Gottfried

doi:10.1080/14616734.2022.2132050

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“…Parental expressed anxiety seems to be associated with infant behavioral avoidance in a social referencing task such as the visual cliff task (Möller et al, 2014), suggesting a role of ostensive cues in the process of trusting parental reference. In fact, infants' neural processing of facial cues seems highly dependent on parental psychological (Bowman et al, 2022;Sandre et al, 2022) and behavioral characteristics (Boomen et al, 2021;Rayson et al, 2017) to the extent that infants with insecure attachment do not show age typical neural discrimination between fearful and non-fearful faces (Peltola et al, 2020), and in middle childhood avoidant children fail in discriminating between stranger's and caregiver's face (Kungl et al, 2022).…”

Section: Ostensive Cues Trustworthiness and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Can I Trust You? The Role of Facial Trustworthiness in the Development of Epistemic and Interpersonal Trust

Milesi¹,

Carli²,

Locati³

et al. 2023

Human Development

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Recently, researchers from developmental and clinical psychology highlighted epistemic trust (ET) as a key factor for personality disorders. ET is intended as the mental openness to information coming from others during social exchanges. ET develops from signals called ostensive cues, delivered through facial expressions during interactions in a secure attachment context. Similarly interpersonal trust (IT) refers to the perception of others as not harmful, which is also developed through secure attachment relationships. Our purpose is to suggest a conceptualization of ET as a specific facet of IT. We hypothesize that positive experiences of caregiving promote IT development that includes a specific sense of trust toward others’ knowledge. Moreover, we suggest that the early ability to infer a judgment of trustworthiness from facial cues is the starting point for developing both IT and ET. This conceptualization supports the role of considering both IT and ET in the development of borderline pathology.

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Section: Ostensive Cues Trustworthiness and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Can I Trust You? The Role of Facial Trustworthiness in the Development of Epistemic and Interpersonal Trust

Milesi¹,

Carli²,

Locati³

et al. 2023

Human Development

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“…On the level of mental representations, attachment derived from narratives has been linked to children's socio-affective cue processing (Kungl et al, 2023) and social competence (Veríssimo et al, 2014) as well as adolescents' behavior during interaction with their mothers (Becker-Stoll et al, 2008) and unfamiliar others (Feeney et al, 2008).…”

Section: Mutual Prediction and Internal Working Models Of Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualizing the Invisible Tie: Linking Parent-Child Neural Synchrony to Parents’ and Children’s Attachment Representations

Nguyen¹,

Kungl²,

Hoehl³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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It is a central tenet of attachment theory that individual differences in attachment representations organize behavior during social interactions. Secure attachment representations also facilitate behavioral synchrony, a key component of adaptive parent-child interactions. Yet, the dynamic neural processes underlying these interactions and the potential role of attachment representations remain largely unknown. A growing body of research indicates that interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) could be a potential neurobiological correlate of high interaction and relationship quality. In this study, we examined whether interpersonal neural and behavioral synchrony during parent-child interaction are associated with parent and child attachment representations. In total, 140 parents (74 mothers and 66 fathers) and their offspring (age 5-6 years; 60 girls and 80 boys) engaged in cooperative versus individual problem-solving. INS in frontal and temporal regions was assessed with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning. Attachment representations were ascertained by means of the Adult Attachment Interview in parents and a story-completion task in children, alongside video-coded behavioral synchrony. Findings revealed increased INS during cooperative versus individual problem solving across all dyads and topographic differences pertaining to parental biological sex. Remarkably, individual differences in attachment representations coincided with INS within frontal regions among mother-child dyads, but INS within temporal regions among daughter-parent dyads. Attachment representations were not associated with behavioral synchrony. Our data thus provide further indication for INS as a promising correlate to probe the neurobiological underpinnings of attachment representations in the context of early parent-child interactions.

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“…Prvou oblasťou je deaktivácia systému pripútania, ktorý je neodlúčiteľnou súčasťou attachmentu každého jednotlivca. Jednotlivci s vyhýbavým štýlom pripútania sú typický deaktiváciou tohto systému, čo spôsobuje potlačenie emocionálnej informácie, ktorá môže potencionálne ohroziť vyhýbavého jednotlivca a slúži ako obranná stratégia (Bowlby, 1982;Kungl et al, 2022;Zimmermann & Iwanski, 2015). Toto potlačenie empatie a emócií bráni v aktivácií opatrovateľského systému, ktorý do vysokej miery ovplyvňuje altruizmus a prosocialitu človeka (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2016).…”

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The relationship of prosocial tendencies toward the LGBTQ+ community and attachment styles in the population of czech adults

Lenghart,

Čerešník

2023

Diskuze v psychologii

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The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between prosocial tendencies towards the LGBTQ+ community and attachment styles in a population of Czech adults. Two methods of questionnaire nature were used in the research. The fi rst method was the author's original Attachment Styles Questionnaire (Lenghart & Čerešník, 2022). The second method was the original Scale of Prosocial Tendencies towards the LGBTQ+ Community (Lenghart & Čerešník, 2022). This method measures digital, public, and overall prosociality toward the LGBTQ+ community. The research population consisted of 500 Czech adults aged 18 to 64. The mean age of the participants was 29.23 years (SD = 9.472). The research results show that there is a positive relationship between secure attachment and prosocial tendencies and a negative relationship between avoidant attachment and prosocial tendencies. The regression analysis also showed that secure, avoidant, anxious, and disorganized attachments are signifi cant predictors of prosociality levels. Dis organized attachment was not a signifi cant predictor of digital prosociality.

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Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study

Cited by 8 publications

References 75 publications

How Can I Trust You? The Role of Facial Trustworthiness in the Development of Epistemic and Interpersonal Trust

How Can I Trust You? The Role of Facial Trustworthiness in the Development of Epistemic and Interpersonal Trust

Visualizing the Invisible Tie: Linking Parent-Child Neural Synchrony to Parents’ and Children’s Attachment Representations

The relationship of prosocial tendencies toward the LGBTQ+ community and attachment styles in the population of czech adults

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