Play It Again: Neural Responses to Reunion with Excluders Predicted by Attachment Patterns

Autor/inn/en	White, Lars O.; Wu, Jia; Borelli, Jessica L.; Mayes, Linda C.; Crowley, Michael J.
Titel	Play It Again: Neural Responses to Reunion with Excluders Predicted by Attachment Patterns
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 16 (2013) 6, S.850-863 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/desc.12035
Schlagwörter	Attachment Behavior; Peer Relationship; Early Adolescents; Computer Games; Play; Comparative Analysis; Rejection (Psychology); Expectation; Social Isolation; Stress Variables; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Peer-Beziehungen; Computer game; Computerspiel; Computerspiele; Spiel; Ablehnung; Expectancy; Erwartung; Soziale Isolation
Abstract	Reunion behavior following stressful separations from caregivers is often considered the single most sensitive clue to infant attachment patterns. Extending these ideas to middle childhood/early adolescence, we examined participants' neural responses to reunion with peers who had previously excluded them. We recorded event-related potentials among nineteen 11- to 15-year-old youth previously classified on attachment interviews (11 secure and 8 insecure-dismissing) while they played a virtual ball-toss game (Cyberball) with peers that involved fair play, exclusion and reunion phases. Compared to secure participants, dismissing participants displayed a greater increment in the N2 during reunion relative to fair play, a neural marker commonly linked to expectancy violation. These data suggest a greater tendency toward continued expectations of rejection among dismissing children, even after cessation of social exclusion. In turn, the link between self-reported ostracism distress and neural signs of negative expectancy at reunion was moderated by attachment, such that self-reports were discordant with the neural index of expectancy violation for dismissing, but not for secure children. (As Provided).
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