Trial reportAttachment & human development2022
Attachment and attitudes toward children: effects of security priming in parents and non-parents.
Trial report in Attachment & human development, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Relationship between Empathy and Attachment in Children and Adolescents: Three-Level Meta-Analyses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- The Impact of Secure Attachment on Internet Altruistic Behavior: From the Helper and Seeker's Perspective.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Speakers Use More Redundant Color Adjectives When Speaking to Children Than Adults.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- The cognitive compass of attachment: how primed security and insecurity navigate mental representations.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and fertility intention among college students in China: moderated mediation effects of resilience and attachment.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Mothers' and fathers' attachment styles and power-assertive control: Indirect associations through parental representations.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Article
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Abstract
The present two-study investigation is the first to examine whether experimentally boosting attachment security (security priming) affects attitudes in the parenting domain for both parents and non-parents. Mothers (n = 72) and childless undergraduates (n = 82) were randomly assigned to a neutral or a secure prime condition and then completed measures of implicit attitudes (a child-focused version of the Go/No-Go Association Task) and explicit attitudes (self-reported) toward children. Following the priming manipulation, mothers in the secure prime condition had more positive implicit attitudes toward their child compared to mothers in the neutral prime condition. Security priming also increased mothers' positive explicit attitudes toward their children, but only among mothers who scored high on self-reported attachment-related avoidance. No priming effects emerged among non-parents. These results provide the first evidence for a causal link between parental attachment security and parental attitudes toward children.
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