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Muted neural response to distress among securely attached people

Author(s) -

Kyle Nash,

Mike Prentice,

Jacob B. Hirsh,

Ian McGregor,

Michael Inzlicht

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

social cognitive and affective neuroscience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.229

H-Index - 103

eISSN - 1749-5024

pISSN - 1749-5016

DOI - 10.1093/scan/nst099

Subject(s) - error related negativity , distress , psychology , electroencephalography , negativity effect , neural correlates of consciousness , intrusion , affect (linguistics) , developmental psychology , anterior cingulate cortex , clinical psychology , cognition , psychiatry , communication , geochemistry , geology

Neural processes that support individual differences in attachment security and affect regulation are currently unclear. Using electroencephalography, we examined whether securely attached individuals, compared with insecure individuals, would show a muted neural response to experimentally manipulated distress. Participants completed a reaction time task that elicits error commission and the error-related negativity (ERN)-a neural signal sensitive to error-related distress-both before and after a distressing insecurity threat. Despite similar pre-threat levels, secure participants showed a stable ERN, whereas insecure participants showed a post-threat increase in ERN amplitude. These results suggest a neural mechanism that allows securely attached people to regulate distress.

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