Attachment researchers have also found that security priming has beneficial effects on expectations of a partner's behavior (Carnelley & Rowe, 2007; Pierce & Lydon, 1998; Rowe & Carnelley, 2003). In Rowe and Carnelley's (2003) study, for example, participants who were primed with representations of attachment figure availability (writing for 10 minutes about a past relationship in which they felt secure) reported more positive expectations for the current relationship than those who were primed with insecure representations. In Pierce and Lydon's (1998) study, young women who were subliminally exposed to security-related words (compared to those exposed to neutral words) were more likely to rely on support seeking as a way of coping with a hypothetical scenario in which they unexpectedly became pregnant.