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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 1
January 2023 - 77 articles
Cover Story: Proximity-seeking in distress situations is one of attachment theory’s primary strategies; insecure individuals often also develop secondary strategies. The attachment deactivation strategy constitutes a key issue in the current debate related to their role in support-seeking. This strategy and the processes of proximity-seeking under distress conditions by analyzing the attentional processes, using eye-tracking techniques, were investigated. A care–consistency response pattern was the most frequent response, particularly under a threatening condition; by contrast, only avoidant individuals showed a lower care–consistency response pattern. Overall, avoidant individuals used the deactivation strategy to process comfort-related attachment pictures, suggesting that they considered these stimuli to be threatening. View this paper
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