A new paper out from our lab

A new paper out from our lab (and the first with a neuroscience MA student as lead author - kudos to Hadil Kordahji!!!) was accepted for publication in the Journal of Research in Personality. The paper, entitled "Attachment insecurity as a moderator of cardiovascular arousal effects following dyadic support", is also the first to make use of our lab's dyadic psychophysiology monitoring system (kudos to Mindware and to NBT!!!!) to test how dyadic support "gets under the skin", and how this effect is moderated by the couple's attachment.

Here's the abstract of the paper:

We examine the cardiovascular arousal effects of emotional support receipt, and the moderation of these by the support recipient’s and provider’s attachment. Seventy couples engaged in a laboratory dyadic supportive interaction, while their ECG was monitored. With more emotional support, men with high attachment anxiety showed greater arousal reduction during the dyadic interaction, whereas men with low attachment anxiety showed less reduction; additionally, women coupled with partners with high attachment anxiety showed greater arousal reduction, whereas women coupled with partners with low attachment anxiety showed less reduction. Men and women with high attachment avoidance showed less arousal reduction, whereas those with low attachment avoidance showed greater reduction. These results highlight the differential ways in which support gets under the skin.