For instance, there is evidence of individual differences in expressing avoidance or hypervigilance with respect to attachment threats: fearful avoidant individuals are in fact characterized by cognitive avoidance of
all highly emotional stimuli (Dewitte et al., 2007).
Not exact matches
As crucial processes to extracting information from the environment, attention mechanisms are considered
highly relevant to attachment - related differences in the processing of
emotional stimuli, especially potentially threatening
stimuli (Fraley et al., 2000).
The latter traits, typically
highly correlated, have been shown to correlate negatively with trait mindfulness (Giluk, 2009) and are marked by negative
emotional reactivity to unpleasant life events (Goldberg, 1993) and neural reactivity to negative
stimuli (Canli et al., 2001).