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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD

@stefaniavictoria.bsky.social
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Postdoc at NYUAD & VU Amsterdam, Child development, attachment theory, stress regulation, psychobiology!

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Banning #smartphones in over 400 schools led to: -decreased psychological symptoms among girls by 29% -decreased bullying by boys and girls by 43% -increased GPA among girls by .08 SDs Effects were larger for girls from low SES families openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bi...
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Proud of Dr. Rutkowska on her brilliant PhD defense on "The development of understanding others' actions through their movements"! @rujoanna.bsky.social and the invaluable help of her paranymphs @tommasoghi.bsky.social @francescopoli.bsky.social!
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Few spots left to register for the course before May 1st!
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Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
🚨 Now Published Online (Open Access) 🚨 Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking #parent–#child neural #synchrony to #parents’ and #children's #attachment representations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Many thanks to all involved! #fNIRS #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci
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Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations
Developmental Science is an international journal publishing contemporary scientific developmental psychology and developmental cognitive neuroscience research.
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Disappointed & "worried" that 3 reviewers & 2 editors of leading journal in the field of child development did not read the statistical approach section & assumed we had typos in reporting pages-long results in an extensive study! The plea for bayesian statistics & sound models fails here! #REJECTED
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Summer School on Attachment and Human Development at VU Amsterdam with a great lineup of scholars contributing insights and knowledge for the next generation of scientists and clinicians. Please repost and share within your institutions.
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
I have a cat phobia! 70% of online meetings involve a cat running on the other side of the screen & the other person being proud & delighted about their companion. In I need to use full capacity energy to inhibit fear & concentrate! I'm getting huge spiders for my next meetings! Revenge mode on!
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Carlo Schuengel @carloschuengel.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
To support families, practitioners need a sound and feasible instruments for structured and transparent assessment of parental sensitivity. An important step towards this, is the publication by Mirte Forrer ea on the OK! package 1/x onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002…
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
📣 Last call for nominations for the Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science (any combination of areas) #GlushkoPrize Deadline is NEXT THURSDAY ⏰ Jan. 18th! Each prize will be accompanied by a ✨$10,000 award!✨ Self-nominations are welcome! cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss...
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Lea Michel @leacmichel.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Searching for someone doing longitudinal EEG/MEG study for a symposium on the dynamics between brain and cognition during development. Please feel free to send papers/people my way (also might be interested if you use other techniques or in aging). #PsychSciSky #CogSci #DevSci #NeuroSkyence #EEG
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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/ Please share widely! 1/4
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 05/01/2024
Hello everyone! We're thrilled to announce that COS is now part of the Bluesky community! 🚀 Join us in this space for updates and discussions. Your voices matter, and we're all ears.
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Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
What a nice #Christmas present! The Why? Podmasters podcast episode hosted by Dr Anna Machin "Are dads wired differently" is now out! Thanks so much again for having me. Make sure to listen in, and please let me know if you have any questions. listen.podmasters.uk/WHY231225Dad...
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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Looking for a post-doc with interests in relationships among psychological, cognitive, psychophysiological, and immunological health in older adults. Please RT and alert your talented PhD students. Thanks! #postdoc health.oregonstate.edu/directory/su...
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
I will give a talk on human resilience through the lenses of the attachment theory at the 7th International Conference on Mental Health & Therapy! What is unique about this talk as compared to others is that together with Dr Daniel Sheppard, will bridge empirical findings to therapeutic approaches!
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Click to learn more about our researcg on the use of ICT for individuals with disabilities conducted @VU Amsterdam! This humbling video was a good reminder of my dedication to science, especially as we conclude the year and everyone is so strained and busy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-CP...
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"Hey Google - Could it help people with a learning disability?"
Campaigns officer Vijay talks about some new research into how voice assistants like Amazon Alexa or Google Home devices could help people with a learning di...
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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Postdoc opportunity at UCLA! 🧠 See below for info about our training fellowship in the science of child mental health interventions.
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
To affiliate or not to affiliate-> check out a set of peer-reviewed studies from my PhD. dissertation on insights into early attachment contribution and underlying cognitive architecture! An illustration of the 4 studies at the basis of this inquiry. Below a glimpse into 2 main findings:
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Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
We have two PostDoc positions (Dept. of #Psychology, University of Essex) within the Essex ESNEFT Psychological Research Unit for Behaviour, Health and Wellbeing (EEPRU - www.essex.ac.uk/departments/...). Application deadline: 14.01.2024 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEM815/p... #AcademicSky
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Essex
An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
I organized an online symposium on information seeking! Free for anyone to join, next Tuesday at 15.30 (CET), at this link: msteams.link/Y2FZ Let's see if BlueSky already works for advertising... Please repost!
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Attended the historic COP28 UN Climate Change Summit in Dubai, focusing on (mental) health amidst escalating natural disasters. Immensely grateful to philanthropists for their unwavering dedication. Our collective responsibility is clear: we must all contribute to the tapestry of humanity's future.
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Great study!Happy to have been trained to preregister. In NL, it's common to publish th data in an (institutional) public repository.Unhappy as EU researcher to attend a heavily American-led & oriented largest conference on child development! SRCD should start to be more international & inclusive!
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
➡️Intergenerational transfer from mother to the child is reflected in similarity of corticolimbic brain structure & relates to wellbeing!⬅️ Such an important theoretical & methodological endeavour! Would be thrilled to see how this is reflected in the caregiving quality! Congrats to the research team!
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Absolutely brilliant summary of the status quo of neuroscience research and representativeness!
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
In the Netherlands saying your students want an impact factor would get you criticized and is seen as a wrong scientific attitude. Universities have signed DORA. The funders FORBID reporting impact factors. Happened in the last years. So it is happening here. Why? Because people with tenure spoke -
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Cam Hostinar, Ph.D. @camhostinar.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Just discovered an amazing repository of open-access textbooks, with many options for different areas of Psychology. Consider adopting one of these for your undergraduate courses to promote equity and inclusion! open.umn.edu/opentextbook...
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Psychology Textbooks - Open Textbook Library
Social Sciences - Psychology
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Robert Sapolsky vs Kevin Mitchell: The Biology of Free Will www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Y1... - this was a very fun debate - will be interested to hear people's reactions! Thanks to Robert and Theodor Nenu
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Robert Sapolsky vs Kevin Mitchell: The Biology of Free Will | Philosophical Trials #15
Professor Robert Sapolsky is a Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Surgery at Stanford University. He is the author of multiple books, including A Primate’s...
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Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Attachment Science (8) - #Attachment security in children with disability or developmental delay (DD) 1⃣ Significantly greater risk of forming disorganised attachment in children w. DD 2⃣ Interventions work but more training for professionals needed ▶️ pvrticka.com/attachment_s... #DevPsych #DevSci
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
1/ Do early attachment tendencies modulate children's facial mimicry of positive & negative emotions? @RadboudUniversity, in the Baby & Child Research Center, we investigated this experimentally using facial EMG wth 3-year-olds, parent-reports & naturalistic observations of attachment. Insights⬇️:
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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
**POSTDOC KLAXON** We are have *FOUR* postdoc positions. Come and work with myself, @danakarca.bsky.social , Petra Vertes and a host of great scientists. We'll be working on computational models of network formation, learning how early environments shape development. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/
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Research Associate x 4 (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate x 4 (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Couldn't be more proud of a paper📝 than this one, at such intense times in history! Beyond grateful to participants in the midst of a global pandemic😷 to contribute data📈📊 and hair💇‍♀️ of kids to help advance our scientific understanding of the effects of experienced a pandemic on young people!🙏
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
1/3 Gamification🎮Research:Addressing Bullying Among Individuals wth Disabilities🧑‍🦯👩‍🦽(ID):Teachers' ⚒️➡️ @VUAMSTERDAM, we conducted an RCT testing the effectiveness of a new serious game for teachers & caregivers of ID, to enhance effective autonomy-supporting strategies for clients to combat bullying!⬇️
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
½Empathy is crucial in healthcare, but data shows that it declines throughout care workers' careers. At the @VU Amsterdam, we explored the impact of "The World of EMPA" serious game on care workers for people with disabilities. 👩‍⚕️ Results: The game didn't significantly increase empathy, but ⬇️
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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Stress tends to enhance memory for emotional events. Yet stress is also thought to hurt the hippocampus (which supports episodic memory). With @evgoldfarb.bsky.social & others, we explore this paradox and demonstrate how cortisol can *enhance* hippocampal function to support emotional episodic mems!
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Hippocampal mechanisms support cortisol-induced memory enhancements
Stress can powerfully influence episodic memory, often enhancing memory encoding for emotionally salient information. These stress-induced memory enhancements stand at odds with demonstrations that st...
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
⅓ Institutionalized children often hold poor self-concept(SC) largely due to disrupted attachment(DA).Adopting CircleOfSecurity framewrk,we studied kids raised in🇿🇦institutions to test this relation&mechanisms.After months of cohabitation,doing🕵‍♀️,📝& tasks,we found:exploratory behvs mediates the🔗 DA➡️SC
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Stefania V. Vacaru, PhD @stefaniavictoria.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
To connect with fellow scholars who share my intellectual passions, there's no better passport than sharing my own research findings in bitesize format.Starting from the earliest, I'll summarize each piece regularly.⬇️ a pictorial description->from an Attachment course with Ross Thompson, UC Davis!
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Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Very happy to that the new Mommy Brain Revisited podcast on attachment and neural synchrony is now out: open.spotify.com/episode/6MKr... Many thanks to fabulous host Dr Jodi Pawluski. We talk about attachment, brains, dads, mums, synchrony and much more! #devpsyc #psyscisky #neuroscience
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