People with attachment anxiety are more likely to remember things wrong and misjudge others’ emotions. Here’s why.
uncovers an uncomfortable fact about the anxiously attached individual: their minds falsify memories far more than the average person. In fact, people withstyles are more likely to get facts wrong about everyday social situations, like when a person is relaying information to them in person or on a video call.
The study randomly assigned participants to watch a 20-minute video of a woman talking about her tumultuous breakup with a man or another topic, like a shopping trip or the ecology of California wetlands. Other participants got the same information from audio only or by reading a transcript.
“We believe that highly attachment-anxious individuals are likely intensively analyzing what is being said in the videos we showed them,” said Hudson. “Their own thoughts and feelings about the video may have gotten mixed up with the actual video contents in their minds. Thus, they experiencedThese findings explain how our personalities can meddle with accurate memory recording and recall.
According to the authors, their study can serve as an alarm bell for people with attachment anxiety. These findings can draw their
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