Our earliest experiences with caregivers serve as inner templates for life-long beliefs about self, relationships, and the world-at-large. We can trace back how we currently manage stress and trauma ...

Likely you’ve heard someone flippantly declare that they (or you, or someone else) have “daddy issues” or “mommy issues.” While most often used as an insult, these phrases are actually rooted in ...

Professors, don’t be too hard on graduate students who arrive for weekly advising meetings stricken with anxiety or who sometimes don’t arrive at all. A new study suggests they may simply have ...

Pascal Vrticka received funding from the Max Planck Society (Germany) for parts of his work on the social neuroscience of human attachment described in this piece. Originally rooted in developmental ...

The emotional connection formed by nonverbal emotional communication between an infant and their parent or primary caregiver is known as the attachment bond. This bond is not based on love or the ...

Human-AI interactions are well understood in terms of trust and companionship. However, the role of attachment and experiences in such relationships is not entirely clear. In a new breakthrough, ...