The impact of attachment threat on mental state identification: The mediating role of negative emotion and the moderating role of attachment styles.
We conducted two experimental studies to explore the mediating role of negative emotion and the moderating role of attachment styles when predicting mental state identification (MSI) in threatening contexts. The Chinese version of "Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task" (RMET) was used as a proxy for MS...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social & Personal Relationships Vol. 38; no. 11; pp. 3097 - 3121 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Nov2021
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