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Attachment Style and Memory for Attachment-Related Events

Oberlin College, judith.miller{at}oberlin.edu

Previous research has demonstrated attachment-schematic processing of attachment-related stories when attachment-related memories are activated before exposure to a story. This study investigated the possibility of obtaining attachment-schematic processing without the activation of attachment-related memories. Undergraduate participants provided attachment style self-ratings and several weeks later read either a positive or negative version of a friendship story. After a distractor task, they took a recall test about the story. Secure and fearful attachment ratings were positively associated with recall of focal story events, relative to peripheral story details, when participants read the negative story. However, secure attachment was associated with recall of focal events involving the friends' joint activities, whereas fearful attachment was associated with recall of those involving their separate activities. These and other results are discussed in terms of attachment-related models of self and other.

Key Words: attachment style • memory • working models

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