#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. 👉🏻 pvrticka.com/attachment-m... @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social

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-... @universityofessex.bsky.social @soneatlab.bsky.social #Bindung #Attachment

Somehow, the ticket link doesn't appear to work... Here it is again: tickets.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/event/...

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... @universityofessex.bsky.social @soneatlab.bsky.social

#Attachment #MythBusting #34: Attachment between #humans and #pets - is this a real thing? 👉 pvrticka.com/attachment-m... @universityofessex.bsky.social @soneatlab.bsky.social

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. 👉🏻 pvrticka.com

#Attachment MythBusting #33: #SexDifferences in Attachment Yes, there are sex differences in attachment. But they are more complex than #PopPsychology suggests. 👉🏻 pvrticka.com/attachment-m... @universityofessex.bsky.social @soneatlab.bsky.social

#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! pvrticka.com/attachment-m...

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.

@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...? 👉🏻 pvrticka.com/attachment-m... @universityofessex.bsky.social

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...

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... @tudresden.bsky.social @pvrticka.bsky.social

🚨 Join us at the 5th #SocialNeuroscience of Human #Relationships, #Attachment and #Caregiving #Conference (#SNRAC2025) this summer! 🚨 TOPIC: #Trauma & #Resilience 👉 www.uni-bremen.de/en/klips-kjp... Abstracts: 04/07. Register: 15/07. #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #fNIRS

🎉Celebrating 30 #Attachment #MythBusting posts🎉 Which ones are your favourites? How did they change your view of attachment and how you use it? And what do you wish to read about next? Let me know in the comments or in the Q & A Form at the bottom of my website: pvrticka.com/attachment-m.... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

🎉Celebrating 30 #Attachment #MythBusting posts🎉 Which ones are your favourites? How did they change your view of attachment and how you use it? And what do you wish to read about next? Let me know in the comments or in the Q & A Form at the bottom of my website: pvrticka.com/attachment-m.... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

🚨 Join us at the 5th #SocialNeuroscience of #Human #Relationships, #Attachment and #Caregiving #Conference - #SNRAC2025 - this summer! 🚨 Where: @unibremen.bsky.social When: August 20-21, 2025 More information: www.uni-bremen.de/en/klips-kjp... #Abstract submission & #registration by 04.07.2025

Though AI helps, does it dull us over time? A study from MIT found that regular ChatGPT use weakens memory, focus, and brain activity. 83% couldn't quote their own text. Essays became repetitive. Researchers call it "cognitive debt"—a slow erosion of independent thinking. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

#Attachment #MythBusting #30 #MirrorNeurons, #Empathy and Attachment: Looking beyond "cells that read minds" 👉🏻 pvrticka.com/attachment-m... #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #brain

Last chance to apply for a fully-funded 2-year #PostDoc in my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social using #fNIRS #hyperscanning & behavioural assessment in #children. 👉🏻 SWITCH: pvrticka.com/switch-proje... Deadline: 01.06.25 Start: 01.10.25 vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

(Slightly belated) congratulations to our 2025 #SoNeAtLab (@soneatlab.bsky.social) #fNIRS #Hyperscanning Workshop best #presentation #prize #winners 🤩 🎉 🏆! Poster: Vanessa Nöring @uni-jena.de Talk: Ann Hogenhuis @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @artinis.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social

One week left to apply for the fully-funded 2-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position in my @soneatlab.bsky.social, Dept. of #Psychology, @universityofessex.bsky.social (#Colchester, #UK). Deadline: 01.06.2025 Start: 01.10.2025 vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... #fNIRS #attachment

Second day of our 2025 #SoNeAtLab #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop 🧠🧠 @universityofessex.bsky.social. In the IT Lab 🖥 now, looking at actual data 📊 and how to analyse it. @artinis.bsky.social #Neuroskyence #brain #synchrony

Our 2025 #SoNeat #fNIRS #Hyperscanning workshop @universityofessex.bsky.social is in full swing. @artinis.bsky.social @pvrticka.bsky.social #Neuroskyence

Major #neurobollocks pervasive in psychotherapy.

My @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Fully funded for 2 years starting 01 October 2025. Application deadline is 01 June 2025. 👉🏻 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMX778/p... #fNIRS #hyperscanning #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci

We are soooo excited 🤩🥳 for our 2025 #SoNeAtLab #fNIRS #Hyperscanning Workshop that starts tomorrow @universityofessex.bsky.social. We have attendees joining us from the UK, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Iran and the USA. 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 Welcome 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

#Attachment #MythBusting #29: Getting stuck in certain “brain or nervous system states” - especially in relation to #insecure #attachment and #trauma. 👉🏻 pvrticka.com/attachment-m... #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #brain

My @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Fully funded for 2 years starting 01 October 2025. Application deadline is 01 June 2025. 👉🏻 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMX778/p... #fNIRS #hyperscanning #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci

It has been a great pleasure and honour to attend the #ParentalBrain Meeting 2025 in #Barcelona to talk about my @soneatlab.bsky.social's research on #CaringDads: The #Social #Neuroscience of #Attachment and #Caregiving in #Fathers (pvrticka.com/dads/). Thank you again for the kind invitation 🙏🏻☺️.

Our SoNeAt Lab (@universityofessex.bsky.social; PI @pvrticka.bsky.social) is hiring a #PostDoc for our #SWITCH project (pvrticka.com/switch-proje...). It's a fully funded 2-year position from 01.10.2025 using #fNIRS #hyperscanning. Application deadline: 01.06.2025 👉🏻 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMX778/p...

Brilliant opportunity to work with #fNIRS #hyperscanning at Essex University under @pvrticka.bsky.social's guidance!

My #SoNeAtLab @universityofessex.bsky.social is hiring a #PostDoc. Fully funded 2-year position from 01.10.2025. Application deadline: 01.06.2025. Longitudinal #fNIRS #hyperscanning project in #parents & #children. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMX778/p... #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci

Some excellent #genetics #MythBusting here 👇🏻

📣 Save the Date: SNRAC Conference 2025 – Coming to Bremen on August 20 & 21! This year's topic is: The #Social Origins or #Trauma and #Resilience. Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2025. www.uni-bremen.de/en/klips-kjp... #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci Please share widely!

On the Right 🧠/Left 🧠 narrative in #psychotherapy. This piece might just ruffle a few psychotherapy feathers 🪶🪶🧨 Neuroscientist Dr Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social helps me get to the bottom of what is fact and what fiction. Enjoy. www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/right-b...

Today, together with brilliant Dr @ananeurogeek.bsky.social, we do some more #MythBusting: "So happy together: Deconstructing the right #brain / left brain #myth". www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/right-b... #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #Psychotherapy #Neurobollocks

#Attachment #MythBusting #28: #Neurobollocks Adding a #neuroscience element to claims about attachment can be helpful, but often results in "neurobollocks". 👉🏻https://pvrticka.com/attachment-myth-busting/#28 h/t @ananeurogeek.bsky.social - www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/feed

We’re thrilled to announce the official launch of the Brite Ultra, our cutting edge mass #fNIRS hyperscanning system. Join us at our Hyperscanning Summer School to discovery its full potential! @vstclair.bsky.social @pvrticka.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more & register: www.artinis.com/hyperscannin...

I recently spoke about #Attachment and #ChildDevelopment, including #CHATS developed with #Babygro, at 2 events organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Thank you so much again for the kind invitation. The second talk was recorded and is freely available here: pvrticka.com/presentations/.

New blog post on the classic #neurobollocks the lizard #brain with focus on #psychotherapy. The triune brain gets a bad rap too. 🦎🧠✋ #therapy #neuroscience www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/goodbye...

A groundbreaking new study is set to explore how British children cope in the first years of school compared with youngsters from across Europe. @pvrticka.bsky.social will lead the £1.25 million project in Britain. www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/03...

I am looking into writing a new #attachment #MythBusting post (pvrticka.com/attachment-m...) about #MirrorNeurons and #empathy. Any recommendations for recent literature on this topic? #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci