title: The vigilance-avoidance model of avoidant recognition: An ERP study under threat priming.
abstract: Our study examined attachment-related electrophysiological differences in recognition using event-related potentials (ERPs) measured during a study-test paradigm after threat priming. We identified ERP correlates of recognition by comparing the ERPs of attachment-related positive and negative images between avoidant and secure attachment orientations. Our results revealed that the distribution of early old/new effects was broader in avoidant individuals than in secure individuals, and an early parietal old/new effect was observed in avoidant individuals, which reflected their implicit memory. The late old/new effect was found only in secure individuals when evoked by negative pictures, and was not observed in avoidant individuals. The results suggest that avoidant individuals adopt the "vigilance-avoidance" dual-process model to recognize both positive and negative attachment-related stimuli and carry out preferential familiarity matching at the automatic level and avoidant retrieval at the controlled-processing level.
authors: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chong Qing, China; Hubei tianmen high school, Hu Bei, China.
authors: Jing
authors: J
authors: Zhai
authors: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chong Qing, China. Electronic address: chenxu@swu.edu.cn.
authors: Xu
authors: X
authors: Chen
authors: Institute of Education, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chong Qing, China.
authors: Jianling
authors: J
authors: Ma
authors: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chong Qing, China.
authors: Qingqing
authors: Q
authors: Yang
authors: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chong Qing, China.
authors: Ying
authors: Y
authors: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005239:Fear / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Avoidant individual; ERP old/new effect; Recognition; Study-test paradigm; Vigilance-avoidance