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Attentional Biases toward Attractive Alternatives and Rivals: Mechanisms Involved
in Relationship Maintenance among Chinese Women
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Ma Y
; Zhao G
; Tu S
; Zheng Y
PLoS One
2015[]; 10
(8
): e0136662
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A long-term romantic relationship can offer many benefits to committed
individuals. Thus, humans possess relationship maintenance mechanisms to protect
against threats from those who serve as attractive alternatives or intrasexual
rivals. Many studies have indicated that romantic love can act as a commitment
device to activate these mechanisms. To examine the attentional bias associated
with relationship maintenance among 108 college students (49 single and 59
committed females) in China, we used a semantic priming procedure to activate
mental representations associated with romantic love and then asked participants
to complete a dot-probe task for the purpose of making a distinction between the
engage and disengage components of attention. No significant engaging effects
toward attractive faces were observed among committed females, but the following
significant disengaging effects were found: when primed with romantic love,
single females showed increased attention toward and difficulty in disengaging
from attractive male faces, whereas females already in a committed relationship
did not alter their attention, remaining as inattentive to attractive
alternatives as they were in the baseline condition. In addition, committed
females responded to love priming by exhibiting difficulty in disengaging from
attractive rivals. The present findings provide evidence in the Chinese cultural
context for the existence of early-stage attentional processes in the domain of
relationship maintenance that committed Chinese females protected an ongoing
relationship by not only being inattentive to attractive males who could serve as
attractive alternatives, but also being more attentive to attractive females who
could be potential rivals when mental representations associated with romantic
love were primed.