| Approved on: | 2024-07-17 |
| Brief purpose of the study: | This purpose of this study is to examine the significance of attachment representations for adults' neurocognitive processing of emotional expressions prior to becoming a parent. The objectives are: 1) determine whether adult attachment representations are associated with neural responding to emotional facial expressions prior to parenthood, 2) determine whether such associations are specific to infant (v. adult) emotional expressions, 3) determine whether such associations are specific to distress (vs. happy, neutral) emotional expressions, 4) examine whether patterns of associations vary as a function of task instructions (i.e., focus on specific emotional expressions v. categorize all emotional expressions), and 5) examine whether mean levels of neural responding to emotional facial expressions and patterns of associations with adult attachment differ between White/European American and African American non-parents. |
| Brief summary of what participants will be asked to do: | Before arriving to the lab, you were asked to complete questionnaires about yourself and your relationships on-line. For this 2-hour laboratory visit, you will be asked to develop stories using sets of words you are provided while being physiologically monitored. Next, you will be asked to view and rate images of adults and infants displaying different emotional facial expressions while your brain wave activity is monitored via an EEG cap. Next, you will be asked to complete some questionnaires about your social network and believes.
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| Basic eligibility criteria: | African American and European American (not Hispanic/Latinx) male and female undergraduate students between the ages of 18-25 years who are born in the United States. Eligible participants should not have experienced a significant head injury, have been unconscious for longer than 10 min, have multiple sclerosis/epilepsy/other neurological disorder. |
| Study contact for more information: | Email: acestudy@missouri.edu |
| IRB Number: | 2043222 MU |
