Pascal Vrtička
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 758009 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pascal Vrtička |
| PRENOMES | Pascal |
| SOBRENOME | Vrtička |
| ASSINATURA | VRTIČKA P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8920-5509 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Practitioner Review
Attachment theory, with its core concepts, perspectives, and insights developed over the past five decades, is influential for professionals working with young children. However, practitioners face challenges translating attachment theory and research into practical applications. This manifests in attachment myths, theoretical misinterpretations, and inconsistency of application. This state‐of‐the‐art review is authored by 47 attachment researche…
Support or stress? How attachment and relationship dynamics associate with acute psychosocial stress in the presence of the romantic partner
Le cerveau parental
La transition vers la parentalité est marquée par une plasticité importante du cerveau adulte, qui a des effets durables sur la neurobiologie et le comportement du parent et de l’enfant en développement. L’article donne un aperçu : 1. de la façon dont la structure et la fonction du cerveau changent lors de la transition vers la parentalité, et 2. de ce que nous savons de la synchronisation intercérébrale entre le parent et l’enfant. Le cerveau pa…
Precursors and Effects of Self-reported Parental Reflective Functioning
Parental reflective functioning is thought to provide a missing link between caregivers' own attachment histories and their ensuing parenting behaviors. The current study sought to extend research on this association involving 115 parents, both mothers and fathers, of 5-to-6-year-old preschoolers using the German version of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ). Our study was the first to combine Adult Attachment Interview clas…
Interpersonal Neural Synchrony During Father–Child Problem Solving
Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) has been previously evidenced in mother–child interactions, yet findings concerning father–child interaction are wanting. The current experiment examined whether fathers and their 5- to 6-year-old children (N = 66) synchronize their brain activity during a naturalistic interaction, and addressed paternal and child factors related to INS. Compared to individual problem solving and rest, father–child dyads showe…
Exclusion Expected? Cardiac Slowing Upon Peer Exclusion Links Preschool Parent Representations to School-Age Peer Relationships
Attachment theory proposes that children’s representations of interactions with caregivers guide information-processing about others, bridging interpersonal domains. In a longitudinal study (N = 165), preschoolers (Mage = 5.19 years) completed the MacArthur Story Stem Battery to assess parent representations. At school-age (Mage = 8.42 years), children played a virtual ballgame with peers who eventually excluded them to track event-related cardia…
Contemplative Mental Training Reduces Hair Glucocorticoid Levels in a Randomized Clinical Trial
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the effect of regular contemplative mental training on endocrine and psychological indices of long-term stress. METHODS: An open-label efficacy trial that comprised three distinct 3-month long modules targeting attention and interoception, socioaffective, or sociocognitive abilities through dyadic exercises and secularized meditation practices was conducted with healthy adults. Participants underwent the…
Who am I? Differential effects of three contemplative mental trainings on emotional word use in self-descriptions
In a large-scale longitudinal mental training study, we examined whether learning different contemplative practices can change the emotional content of people’s self-concept as assessed through emotional word use in the Twenty Statement Test. During three 3-month training modules, participants learned distinct practices targeting attentional, socio-affective, or socio-cognitive capacities, or were re-tested. Emotional word use specifically increa…
Human amygdala response to dynamic facial expressions of positive and negative surprise
Although brain imaging evidence accumulates to suggest that the amygdala plays a key role in the processing of novel stimuli, only little is known about its role in processing expressed novelty conveyed by surprised faces, and even less about possible interactive encoding of novelty and valence. Those investigations that have already probed human amygdala involvement in the processing of surprised facial expressions either used static pictures di…
Influence of adult attachment style on the perception of social and non-social emotional scenes
Attachment theory describes how people emotionally bond with others, utilize their social interactions to regulate affective needs, and how they differ in their attachment style. However, it remains unknown whether anxious or avoidant attachment is linked to more general differences in emotional processing for negative and positive stimuli, and whether such differences depend on stimulus content. Here we tested how social or non-social positive o…
Influence of adult attachment style on the perception of social and non-social emotional scenes
Attachment theory describes how people emotionally bond with others, utilize their social interactions to regulate affective needs, and how they differ in their attachment style. However, it remains unknown whether anxious or avoidant attachment is linked to more general differences in emotional processing for negative and positive stimuli, and whether such differences depend on stimulus content. Here we tested how social or non-social positive o…
Influence of adult attachment style on the perception of social and non-social emotional scenes
Attachment theory describes how people emotionally bond with others, utilize their social interactions to regulate affective needs, and how they differ in their attachment style. However, it remains unknown whether anxious or avoidant attachment is linked to more general differences in emotional processing for negative and positive stimuli, and whether such differences depend on stimulus content. Here we tested how social or non-social positive o…
Human amygdala response to dynamic facial expressions of positive and negative surprise
Although brain imaging evidence accumulates to suggest that the amygdala plays a key role in the processing of novel stimuli, only little is known about its role in processing expressed novelty conveyed by surprised faces, and even less about possible interactive encoding of novelty and valence. Those investigations that have already probed human amygdala involvement in the processing of surprised facial expressions either used static pictures di…
Who am I? Differential effects of three contemplative mental trainings on emotional word use in self-descriptions
In a large-scale longitudinal mental training study, we examined whether learning different contemplative practices can change the emotional content of people’s self-concept as assessed through emotional word use in the Twenty Statement Test. During three 3-month training modules, participants learned distinct practices targeting attentional, socio-affective, or socio-cognitive capacities, or were re-tested. Emotional word use specifically increa…
Interpersonal Neural Synchrony During Father–Child Problem Solving
Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) has been previously evidenced in mother–child interactions, yet findings concerning father–child interaction are wanting. The current experiment examined whether fathers and their 5- to 6-year-old children (N = 66) synchronize their brain activity during a naturalistic interaction, and addressed paternal and child factors related to INS. Compared to individual problem solving and rest, father–child dyads showe…
Exclusion Expected? Cardiac Slowing Upon Peer Exclusion Links Preschool Parent Representations to School-Age Peer Relationships
Attachment theory proposes that children’s representations of interactions with caregivers guide information-processing about others, bridging interpersonal domains. In a longitudinal study (N = 165), preschoolers (Mage = 5.19 years) completed the MacArthur Story Stem Battery to assess parent representations. At school-age (Mage = 8.42 years), children played a virtual ballgame with peers who eventually excluded them to track event-related cardia…
Contemplative Mental Training Reduces Hair Glucocorticoid Levels in a Randomized Clinical Trial
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the effect of regular contemplative mental training on endocrine and psychological indices of long-term stress. METHODS: An open-label efficacy trial that comprised three distinct 3-month long modules targeting attention and interoception, socioaffective, or sociocognitive abilities through dyadic exercises and secularized meditation practices was conducted with healthy adults. Participants underwent the…
Le cerveau parental
La transition vers la parentalité est marquée par une plasticité importante du cerveau adulte, qui a des effets durables sur la neurobiologie et le comportement du parent et de l’enfant en développement. L’article donne un aperçu : 1. de la façon dont la structure et la fonction du cerveau changent lors de la transition vers la parentalité, et 2. de ce que nous savons de la synchronisation intercérébrale entre le parent et l’enfant. Le cerveau pa…
Precursors and Effects of Self-reported Parental Reflective Functioning
Parental reflective functioning is thought to provide a missing link between caregivers' own attachment histories and their ensuing parenting behaviors. The current study sought to extend research on this association involving 115 parents, both mothers and fathers, of 5-to-6-year-old preschoolers using the German version of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ). Our study was the first to combine Adult Attachment Interview clas…
Support or stress? How attachment and relationship dynamics associate with acute psychosocial stress in the presence of the romantic partner
Practitioner Review
Attachment theory, with its core concepts, perspectives, and insights developed over the past five decades, is influential for professionals working with young children. However, practitioners face challenges translating attachment theory and research into practical applications. This manifests in attachment myths, theoretical misinterpretations, and inconsistency of application. This state‐of‐the‐art review is authored by 47 attachment researche…
Psychology (9 obras) · Developmental psychology (6 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 obras) · Clinical Psychology (4 obras) · Cognitive psychology (4 obras) · Psychotherapist (4 obras) · Attachment theory (3 obras) · Clinical Psychology (3 obras)