title: Brain responses to facial expressions by adults with different attachment-orientations.
abstract: Behavior studies demonstrate that the attachment-orientation difference is a powerful predictor for emotional processing in children and adults, with anxious individuals being hyperactive and avoidant individuals being deactive to emotional stimuli. This study used the event-related potential technique to explore brain responses to facial expressions by adults with anxious, avoidant, or secure attachment-orientation. Differences were found in N1, N2, P2, and N400 components between the groups of participants, suggesting that adults with different attachment-orientations have differences in both earlier, automatic encoding of the structural properties of faces and later, more elaborative retrieval of emotional contents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Tonggui
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiaolin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology; D009769:Object Attachment; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010553:Personality Development; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires