Stress and affiliation: A utility theory.

Rofé, Yacov

doi:10.1037/0033-295x.91.2.235

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“…The stress-attachment link in adulthood also received some support in studies testing Schachter's (1959) fear-affiliation hypothesis. In these studies, fearful persons are more likely than nonfearful persons to affiliate with an available other while awaiting some noxious event (see Rofe, 1984, andKlinnert, 1982, for reviews). Although this finding has been initially interpreted in terms of social comparison, more recent findings (Kirkpatrick & Shaver, 1988) suggest that stress increases proximity seeking as a means of alleviating distress.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One possibility is to ob-serve a person's behavior and to rate the extent he or she seeks for proximity or support. This methodological strategy has been used in studies with infants (e.g., Ainsworth, 1973;Lamb, 1976), in experiments testing Schachter's (1959) fear-affiliation hypothesis (see Rofe, 1984, for a review), and in recent adult attachment studies (e.g., Rholes, Simpson, & GrichStevens, 1998;Simpson, Rholes, & Nelligan, 1992). The problem with this strategy is that proximity-seeking behaviors may depend on a conscious deliberation about the expected utility and personal-cultural adequacy of these behaviors.…”

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Stress and accessibility of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and intraindividual components of attachment theory.

Mikulincer¹,

Birnbaum²,

Woddis³

et al. 2000

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Three studies examine the effects of stress on the accessibility of proximity-related thoughts. In all the studies, participants reported on their attachment style, and the accessibility of proximity themes and worries in a lexical decision task was assessed upon the priming of a stress or neutral word. In Study 2, the primed stress word was semantically related to attachment themes. In Study 3, lexical decisions were made under low or high cognitive load conditions. Overall, the priming of a stress word led to increased accessibility of proximity themes, regardless of attachment style. Anxious-ambivalent people also showed high accessibility to proximity themes and worries in both neutral and stress contexts. In most conditions, avoidant persons' reactions were similar to those of secure persons. However, they showed no accessibility to proximity worries even after the priming of a semantically related word and reacted with high accessibility to these worries upon the addition of cognitive load.In his classic trilogy, Bowlby (1969, 1973, 1980) developed an ethological theory about the function, antecedents, and consequences of the activation of the attachment system in humans. However, the vast majority of attachment studies have adopted an individual differences perspective, dealing with Bowlby's (1973, 1988) statements about the effects of a person's history of attachment experiences on his or her attachment style. This trend is mainly noted in adult attachment studies, which have focused on the ways people differing in attachment style differ in the way they regulate distress. Our study attempts to integrate the normative and intraindividual components of attachment theory and to examine Bowlby's hypothesis about the effect of stress arousal on the activation of the attachment system. Specifically, we examine whether a stress context cognitively activates the attachment system in most individuals while, at the same time, examining whether and how individual differences in attachment style may color this activation.Attachment, Stress Arousal, and Distress Regulation One basic statement of Bowlby's (1969Bowlby's ( , 1973Bowlby's ( , 1980 theory is that all human beings are born with an attachment system aimed at maintaining proximity to significant others

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Stress and accessibility of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and intraindividual components of attachment theory.

Mikulincer¹,

Birnbaum²,

Woddis³

et al. 2000

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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240

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“…Previous research showed that the need to belong is especially prevalent under social threat (Elder & Clipp, 1988;Hogg, 2000;Hogg, Sherman, Dieselhuis, Maiter, & Moffitt, 2007;Rofe, 1984). Therefore, to experimentally increase the need to belong to one's group, we threatened participants' perceived ability to recognize faces of in-group members.…”

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Together we cry: Social motives and preferences for group-based sadness

Porat

Halperin

Mannheim³

et al. 2015

Cognition and Emotion

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Group-based emotions play an important role in helping people feel that they belong to their group. People are motivated to belong, but does this mean that they actively try to experience group-based emotions to increase their sense of belonging? In this investigation, we propose that people may be motivated to experience even group-based emotions that are typically considered unpleasant to satisfy their need to belong. To test this hypothesis, we examined people's preferences for group-based sadness in the context of the Israeli National Memorial Day. In two correlational (Studies 1a and 1b) and two experimental (Studies 2 and 3) studies, we demonstrate that people with a stronger need to belong have a stronger preference to experience group-based sadness. This effect was mediated by the expectation that experiencing sadness would be socially beneficial (Studies 1 and 2). We discuss the implications of our findings for understanding motivated emotion regulation and intergroup relations.

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“…One of the things that happens when people are threatened, or placed in a situation of fear, is that their groups become more important to them (Elder and Clipp 1988;Rofe 1984). One of the things that happens when people are threatened, or placed in a situation of fear, is that their groups become more important to them (Elder and Clipp 1988;Rofe 1984).…”

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Multidisciplinary Contributions to the Science of Creative Thinking

Corazza¹,

Agnoli²

2016

Creativity in the Twenty First Century

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Stress and affiliation: A utility theory.

Cited by 91 publications

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Stress and accessibility of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and intraindividual components of attachment theory.

Stress and accessibility of proximity-related thoughts: Exploring the normative and intraindividual components of attachment theory.

Together we cry: Social motives and preferences for group-based sadness

Multidisciplinary Contributions to the Science of Creative Thinking

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