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Published on: January 17, 2025
Charting the social neuroscience of human attachment (SoNeAt)
Lars White1, Melanie Kungl2, Pascal Vrticka3
1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Abstract:
This introduction aims to set out the potential as well as some of the pitfalls of the newly emerging area of the Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment (SoNeAt). To organize and interconnect the burgeoning empirical studies in this line of research, including those in this special issue, we outline a programmatic framework including an extension of our conceptual proposals NAMA and NAMDA to guide future research. We hope that this special issue will act as a stimulus for redoubling our efforts advancing the newly emerging SoNeAt area bridging attachment theory and social neuroscience.
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