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Priming a sense of security: what goes through people’s minds?

Priming a sense of security: what goes through people’s minds?
Priming a sense of security: what goes through people’s minds?
There is a growing literature charting the positive personal
and interpersonal effects of security priming. Security primes
enhance self- and relationship views, and even evaluations
of outgroups, relative to control primes. We examine how
security priming is experienced by individuals and how its
effects differ from those produced by other positive affect and
relationship-related primes. We analyze the written protocols
produced by individuals in different priming conditions for
frequency of felt security, care, merging, agency, communion,
and nostalgia words. Security priming led to thoughts related
to felt security, positive care, a sense of merging with another,
positive emotion, and communion; furthermore, the effects
of security priming could be distinguished from the effects of
positive affect and other relationship-related primes. We discuss
several directions for future research.
attachment, priming, security
0265-4075
253-261
Carnelley, Katherine
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Rowe, Angela
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Carnelley, Katherine
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Rowe, Angela
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Carnelley, Katherine and Rowe, Angela (2010) Priming a sense of security: what goes through people’s minds? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27 (2), 253-261. (doi:10.1177/0265407509360901).

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Abstract

There is a growing literature charting the positive personal
and interpersonal effects of security priming. Security primes
enhance self- and relationship views, and even evaluations
of outgroups, relative to control primes. We examine how
security priming is experienced by individuals and how its
effects differ from those produced by other positive affect and
relationship-related primes. We analyze the written protocols
produced by individuals in different priming conditions for
frequency of felt security, care, merging, agency, communion,
and nostalgia words. Security priming led to thoughts related
to felt security, positive care, a sense of merging with another,
positive emotion, and communion; furthermore, the effects
of security priming could be distinguished from the effects of
positive affect and other relationship-related primes. We discuss
several directions for future research.

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Published date: 2010
Keywords: attachment, priming, security

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Local EPrints ID: 72947
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/72947
ISSN: 0265-4075
PURE UUID: 7a525c60-a911-4964-b3ce-47b81f748aed
ORCID for Katherine Carnelley: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-8576

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Date deposited: 25 Feb 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:45

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Author: Angela Rowe

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