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Pascal Vrticka
@pvrticka.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Psychology @universityofessex.bsky.social (Colchester, UK) | PI of @soneatlab.bsky.social | fNIRS hyperscanning & structural and functional MRI | Attachment & caregiving in families & couples | TEDx speaker | https://pvrticka.com | 🇨🇭
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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...
January 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM
pvrticka.bsky.social
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...

@soneatlab.bsky.social
@universityofessex.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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#Dads: The forgotten #attachment figures?

How 70 years of attachment science reshaped fathers' role

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Dads: The Forgotten Attachment Figures?
How 70 Years of Attachment Science Reshaped Fathers' Role
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December 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
pvrticka.bsky.social
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...
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
pvrticka.bsky.social
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

@soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
pvrticka.bsky.social
#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
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
pvrticka.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
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.
www.deutschlandfunknova.de
October 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
pvrticka.bsky.social
Oh wow... ☺️! Thank you so much for your positive feedback 🙏🏻. Greatly appreciated.
October 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
pvrticka.bsky.social
Thank you 😊 🙏🏻. I'll get in touch!
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Somehow, the ticket link doesn't appear to work...

Here it is again: tickets.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/event/...
September 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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.
September 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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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.
September 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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#Attachment #MythBusting #34: Attachment between #humans and #pets - is this a real thing?

👉 pvrticka.com/attachment-m...

@universityofessex.bsky.social
@soneatlab.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
pvrticka.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
September 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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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.

@fluxsociety.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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ellroche.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...
De Felice et al 2025: relational neuroscience, insights from hyperscanning Flux 2025 symposium - is neural synchrony a developmental mechanism?
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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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 😊.
soneatlab.bsky.social Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment (SoNeAt) Lab @soneatlab.bsky.social · Sep 1
Come and find our SoNeAt Lab (@universityofessex.bsky.social) at this year's #FLUX2025 in #Dublin!

We are participating in 4 events, including a pre-conference workshop on #hyperscanning with @artinis.bsky.social, 2 #poster sessions by Ricky and Laura, and a symposium talk by @pvrticka.bsky.social👇🏻
September 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
pvrticka.bsky.social
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 👇🏻
September 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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🤔❓ 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
August 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
pvrticka.bsky.social
#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
August 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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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!

pvrticka.com/attachment-m...
August 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reposted by Pascal Vrticka
annaalexandrova.bsky.social
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.
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
academic.oup.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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carloschuengel.bsky.social
@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 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.
www.bps.org.uk
August 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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#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
July 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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saradefelice.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...
OSF
osf.io
July 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM