I do not know you and I am keeping it that way: Attachment avoidance and empathic accuracy in the perception of strangers
| Autor: | Or Izhaki-Costi, Yaacov Schul |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject Loneliness Empathic accuracy Feeling Anthropology Perception Interpersonal difficulties Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine medicine.symptom Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Association (psychology) Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Personal Relationships. 18:321-340 |
| ISSN: | 1350-4126 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2010.01292.x |
| Popis: | Two studies examined the association between attachment avoidance and empathic accuracy when perceiving strangers. In Study 1, participants with high attachment avoidance revealed lower accuracy in identifying the thoughts and feelings of their interaction partner compared with participants with low attachment avoidance. High-avoidance participants also tended to mentally distance themselves from the other and thought less often about him or her. Study 2 replicated the pattern of lower empathic accuracy for high-attachment-avoidance participants, this time, when respondents did not actually interact with the target of perception. We discuss reasons for why people with high attachment avoidance might show impaired empathic accuracy while interacting with strangers. We also consider more general influences of attachment avoidance on perception processes and, consequently, on social success. Previous research reveals that attachment avoidance is related to an increase in interpersonal difficulties (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991; Horowitz, Rosenberg, & Bartholomew, 1993) and increased feelings of loneliness (Hecht & Baum, 1984; Kobak & Sceery, 1988; Wei, Shaffer, Young, & Zakalik, 2005; Wei, Vogel, Ku, & Zakalik, 2005). Significantly, there are indications that for individuals who are characterized by high attachment avoidance, such difficulties come into play even in their first encounter with others (Aron |
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