von Mohr, M., Silva, P. C., Vagnoni, E., Bracher, A., Bertoni, T., Serino, A., Banissy, M. J., Jenkinson, P. M. and Fotopoulou, A., 2023. My social comfort zone: Attachment anxiety shapes peripersonal and interpersonal space. iScience, 26 (2), 105955.
Full text available as:
|
PDF (OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE)
PIIS2589004223000329.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. 1MB | |
Copyright to original material in this document is with the original owner(s). Access to this content through BURO is granted on condition that you use it only for research, scholarly or other non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact BU via BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk. Any third party copyright material in this document remains the property of its respective owner(s). BU grants no licence for further use of that third party material. |
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.105955
Abstract
Following positive social exchanges, the neural representation of interactive space around the body (peripersonal space; PPS) expands, whereas we also feel consciously more comfortable being closer to others (interpersonal distance; ID). However, it is unclear how relational traits, such as attachment styles, interact with the social malleability of our PPS and ID. A first, exploratory study (N=48) using a visuo-tactile, augmented reality task, found that PPS depended on the combined effects of social context and attachment anxiety. A follow-up preregistered study (N = 68), showed that those with high attachment anxiety demonstrated a sharper differentiation between peripersonal and extrapersonal space, even in a non-social context. A final, preregistered large-scale survey (N = 19,417) found that people scoring high in attachment anxiety prefer closer ID and differentiate their ID less based on feelings of social closeness. We conclude that attachment anxiety reduces the social malleability of both peripersonal and interpersonal space.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
ISSN: | 2589-0042 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Behavioral neuroscience; Social medicine |
Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
ID Code: | 38315 |
Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
Deposited On: | 06 Mar 2023 10:06 |
Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2023 10:06 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Repository Staff Only - |