Pascal Vrticka

Why are ‘hallucinated #citations’ and ‘phantom #references’ a real problem for scientific #accuracy and #integrity - including #attachment #science?

More in my latest #Substack post.

👉🏻 pvrticka.substack.com/p/hallucinat...

Un nouvel article sur l' #attachement, les soins et le #cerveau #parental, destiné en particulier à notre public francophone.

👉🏻 doi.org/10.1016/j.sa...

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Dads: The Forgotten Attachment Figures? How 70 Years of Attachment Science Reshaped Fathers' Role

#Dads: The forgotten #attachment figures?

How 70 years of attachment science reshaped fathers' role

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Why is #attachment foundational for effective #leadership?

Because leadership is first and foremost a #relationship. And it’s not just any kind of relationship, it’s an attachment-based relationship.

👉🏻 attachmentinformedleadership.substack.com/p/why-attach...

Check out my new series on #Substack: Is your #brain securely #attached? Part I: What’s the brain got to do with it?

#attachment #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #fNIRS

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#Attachment #MythBusting #35: "Rewiring" our #brain to become more #secure

Yes, this is a thing, but it's not a "quick fix". The key is to enable our brain to build a (new) predictive model of #safety.

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Bindungstypen: Wir können ändern, wie wir lieben Bindungstypen: Welche Bedürfnisse wir in Beziehungen haben, ist unterschiedlich. Das wird schon in der Kindheit geprägt. Aber: Er kann sich auch ändern.

Heute etwas Kurzes für das deutschsprachige Publikum:

#Beziehungsstress

#Bindungstypen: Wir können ändern, wie wir lieben

Beitrag von Deutschlandfunk Nova vom 09. Oktober 2025

www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/wie-...

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#Bindung #Attachment

Oh wow... ☺️! Thank you so much for your positive feedback 🙏🏻. Greatly appreciated.

Thank you 😊 🙏🏻. I'll get in touch!

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I am very much looking forward to my @oxpip.bsky.social online lecture on #Attachment and #Child #Development: From #Myths to Modern #Neuroscience.

📅 03 October 2025, 13:00-15:00

🎟️ Tickets are still available: tickets.sheepcrm.com/.../67ee7a6a...

It would be a great pleasure to see you there.

New study from the @soneatlab.bsky.social:

Securely stressed: association between #attachment and empathic #stress in romantic couples

👉🏻 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Secure attachment can be both a ✅ resilience and a potential ⚠️ risk factor within romantic relationships under stress.

#Attachment #MythBusting #34: Attachment between #humans and #pets - is this a real thing?

👉 pvrticka.com/attachment-m...

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#Attachment #MythBusting #34: Attachment between #humans and #pets - is this a real thing?

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Thank you 🙏🏻. Such a fantastic line up of speakers. Very grateful and honoured about the invitation and the opportunity to speak. The whole #FLUX2025 conference (my first!) has been absolutely brilliant.

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De Felice et al 2025: relational neuroscience, insights from hyperscanning

Flux 2025 symposium - is neural synchrony a developmental mechanism?

Looking fwd to our neural synchrony symposium today - & especially learning more from @pvrticka.bsky.social on synchrony in #fNIRS. For a preview check out an excellent 2025 review led by @saradefelice.bsky.social - join us 3pm in Hyde 1. 🧠 ⚡️ 🧠 #flux2025

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now happening at #FLUX2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social 👇🏻

Interested in #fNIRS #hyperscanning in #parent #child dyads & #families?

Check out our posters & talk by my @soneatlab.bsky.social !

And do let me know if you want to meet for a chat 😊.

Come and find my @soneatlab.bsky.social (@universityofessex.bsky.social) at this years #FLUX2025 in #Dublin!

We are participating in 4 events, including a pre-conference workshop on #hyperscanning with @artinis.bsky.social, two #poster sessions by Ricky and Laura, and a symposium talk 👇🏻

🤔❓ How good is #AI when asked about the neurobiological basis of #attachment?

👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 Very bad!

Don't rely on AI for such a complex and nuanced question. Instead, use resources based on real & recent scientific evidence - like my #Attachment #MythBusting series or #NAMA & #NAMDA.

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#Attachment MythBusting #33: #SexDifferences in Attachment

Yes, there are sex differences in attachment. But they are more complex than #PopPsychology suggests.

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#Attachment #MythBusting #32: The "Anxious-Avoidant Trap"

The internet is full of posts mentioning this trap, apparently one of the most common and challenging attachment combinations within close relationships. But what’s science telling us? Let’s have a closer look!

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Developments in Attachment Research Abstract. Developments in Attachment Research explores the contributions of several research groups in developmental science that have shaped the study of

Robbie Duschinsky has written an #openaccess book on #attachment research in developmental psychology. How it started, how it changed, and how differently labs measure it. Overall thesis: attachment theory is not one unified paradigm. Check out this work of deep expertise.

‘Attachment research gave some indication where we could start in trying to parent our seriously unwell daughter’ | BPS Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge) reflects on parenting a profoundly unwell and disabled child whilst undertaking research and writing about attachment.

@robbieduschinsky.bsky.social , who is not an active poster on BlueSky, wrote this beautiful piece about being an #attachment researcher and a father of a child with severe #disability. Sharing for other parents www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

#Attachment #MythBusting #31 – #AttachmentTheory versus #Nonattachment in #Buddhism

Attachment theory and Buddhism - calling for “nonattachment” - don’t have anything in common. Or do they...?

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How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time?

We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others.

It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thank you very much for the kind invitation. I had a great time in Dresden 🇩🇪.

ResearchPlus: a manifesto for a new collaborative of universities - HEPI ResearchPlus unites leading research-focused UK universities to boost innovation, skills, and regional and national prosperity.

ResearchPlus - a new collaboration has been formed by 10 UK universities: "there is no collective voice or visibility for research-focused universities outside the Russell Group. Our collaboration seeks to address this & enable us to work better with each other & with existing groups"

Thrilled to welcome @pvrticka.bsky.social to our #BühlerKolloquium! Looking forward to exploring his fascinating research.
Join us this Wednesday! @tudresden.bsky.social

📢 Join us for Dr. Pascal Vrticka’s talk on “Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment: From Single-Person Epigenetics to Interpersonal Neural Synchrony” at the #Bühlerkolloquium.

📅 02/07 @ 5 pm
📍 FAL Room 158 and via Zoom
🔗 tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Tina Malti @unileipzig.bsky.social
Guy Bosmans @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Stefanie Hoehl @univie.ac.at
Tsachi Ein-Dor, Reichman University
Lars White @unibremen.bsky.social
Yours truly @universityofessex.bsky.social