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  • Attachment theorists believe that how people perceive their relationships influences how they process social information.
  • This study analyzed the memories of 189 adolescents to see how their attachment styles affected their recall of emotional childhood experiences and their perceptions of their parents.
  • Results showed that those with a dismissing attachment style tended to forget emotional events related to attachment, while those with a preoccupied attachment style remembered emotional childhood events more vividly.

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Attachment theorists propose that individuals' internal working models influence their social information processing. This study explored links between attachment representations and social information processing by examining adolescents' (n = 189; Mage  = 16.5 years) attachment-related memory biases. Participants completed laboratory tasks assessing memory for (a) emotionally salient childhood events, (b) adjectives describing their parents, and (c) generalized parent-related characteristics not specific to their own parents. As expected, dismissing attachment (assessed using the Adult Attachment Interview) was linked across tasks to a deactivating strategy in which memory for emotional childhood events and attachment-relevant stimuli was reduced. In contrast, evidence that preoccupied attachment was linked to a hyperactivating strategy in which memory was heightened emerged only in relation to emotional childhood events.

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