More specifically, the aim was to study the effects of early family relationships on children's emotion regulation, psychological defense mechanisms, and the related
biases in their
social - emotional
information processing (i.e. attention
biases to emotional facial expressions).
High negative reactivity could diminish capacity to attend
social cues, leading to misinterpretation and incorrect
processing of
social information (e.g. Hostile attribution
bias; [101]-RRB-, with the risk for psychopathology such as externalizing disorders [102].