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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 86, Issue 5, Pages 1321-1332Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12380
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- Kone Foundation
- Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (SPINOZA prize)
- European Research Council [283763]
- European Research Council (ERC) [283763] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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To investigate potential infant-related antecedents characterizing later attachment security, this study tested whether attention to facial expressions, assessed with an eye-tracking paradigm at 7months of age (N=73), predicted infant-mother attachment in the Strange Situation Procedure at 14months. Attention to fearful faces at 7months predicted attachment security, with a smaller attentional bias to fearful expressions associated with insecure attachment. Attachment disorganization in particular was linked to an absence of the age-typical attentional bias to fear. These data provide the first evidence linking infants' attentional bias to negative facial expressions with attachment formation and suggest reduced sensitivity to facial expressions of negative emotion as a testable trait that could link attachment disorganization with later behavioral outcomes.
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