Attachment Leadership Psychology

Attachment-Informed Leadership as Collective Energy Management

In today’s fast-paced and volatile corporate environment, leaders face an increasingly difficult task. How can they foster resilience in their followers for them to not only ‘bounce back’ after a significant challenge but to actually grow stronger even in the face of adversity?

This post outlines a combined social neuroscience and attachment theory perspective that sheds new light on how such stability and growth under pressure can be achieved, and what secure leaders can do to create an optimal environment for their followers to achieve their full resilience potential.

The structure is as follows:

1. Maintaining Stability Through Change
2. Predictions and Inferences
3. Precision Weighting
4. Resilience as Predictive Allostasis Efficiency
5. Secure Attachment Schemas as Growth Priors
6. Fostering Optimal Collective Energy Management

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Dr Pascal Vrticka is a social neuroscientist with strong ties to developmental & social psychology. His research focuses on the psychological, behavioural, biological, and brain basis of human social interaction, attachment and caregiving. Besides measuring neurobiological responses to different kinds of social versus non-social information in single participants using (functional) magnetic resonance imaging ([f]MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), Dr Vrticka most recently started to assess bio-behavioural synchrony in interacting pairs using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning. The main question thereby is how romantic partners and parents with their children get “in sync” when they solve problems together or talk to each other. Dr Vrticka furthermore relates the obtained individual and dyadic behavioural, biological, and brain measures to interindividual differences in relationship quality – particularly attachment and caregiving. In doing so, he refers to attachment theory that provides a suitable theoretical framework on how we initiate and maintain interpersonal relationships across the life span. With his research, Dr Vrticka is promoting a new area of investigation: the social neuroscience of human attachment.

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