The Center for Attachment Research is directed by Howard Steele, Ph.D. and Miriam Steele, Ph.D.
Various ongoing research projects at the Center for Attachment Research are conducted primarily by PhD students and MA students in The New School for Social Research Psychology Department, but also with the help of undergraduate students from Eugene Lang College, and various volunteers and interns from all over the world.
01/31/2024
Reflective Functioning (RF) seminar and training will take place via Zoom over 3 days in early June 2024. RF can be applied to Adult Attachment Interviews and all range of narrative material. To be taught by Prof Howard Steele. Email Howard — [email protected] — for information on how to register.
04/22/2021
Research Opportunity for mothers and their infants:
The Center for Attachment Research at the New School for Social Research is collaborating with the Lab of Action & Body at Royal Holloway University of London, in a range of projects that investigate how the awareness of our own body influences the ways in which we become aware of ourselves and of others. As part of our collaboration, we would like to bring your attention to a new online study launched by the Lab of Action & Body, which investigates the role of interoception in mother-infant relationships, as well as the influence of the mother’s body image across pregnancy and postnatally. We are interested in how awareness of the body and its internal sensations may influence caregiving behaviours between mothers and their infants.
We are recruiting women with a baby between 6 to 18 months old to participate in this online research study, which lasts approximately 15-20 minutes. We can reimburse you £2.50 GBP ($3.65 USD) or you can enter a prize draw to win a £50 Amazon voucher (~$70 USD). Read on to find out what the study involves.
To understand how women experience internal bodily sensations, the study involves an exciting task where we ask you to count your heartbeats, without taking your pulse. During the task, we will record three short videos of you whilst you silently count your heartbeats, so it is necessary that you have access to a computer or laptop with a we**am. By video recording you during the task, we can estimate your heartbeats in an interesting way. Whenever our heart beats, blood flows around our body and results in tiny changes in the colour of our skin, and it is possible to pick up these changes by using a computer-based method to analyse the video recordings. Finally, the study includes a few questionnaires about body awareness, body satisfaction, and caregiving behaviours.
If this sounds interesting to you, please click on the following link, where you will find more details about the study before agreeing to take part. You must access the link from a computer or laptop with a we**am, using Google Chrome as your internet browser, and we ask that you complete the study during the daytime. Study link: https://tinyurl.com/mother-baby-study.
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02/19/2021
We are very pleased to announce that the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies will be running three mini-conferences on attachment in 2021. The mini-conferences will be focusing on the topics of Fatherhood, Social Neuroscience and Intervention, and be hosted by the three corresponding Special Interest Research Groups (SIRGs) within SEAS.
For more information, please refer to the attached flyer - save the dates! And please do spread the word 😀👍
2022 Adult Attachment Interview Institute
Via ZOOM, 18-29 July, 2022
This is an intensive full-time training over two weeks provided, via Zoom, by members of the Consortium of AAI Trainers, Professors Miriam Steele and Howard Steele
Email Howard Steele for full details and application process to attend
10/23/2020
Chech out our lab’s new website:
www.center-for-attachment.com
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07/08/2020
This 25 min lecture followed by a 35 min discussion happened on 22 June 2020 - Covid 19, Fear and Systemic Racism from an attachment perspective
COVID-19, Fear and Attachment Theory with Howard Steele | The New School This talk will review psychoanalytic theories of anxiety and fear, including reference to Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, and John Bowlby. In addition, the book ba...
05/21/2020
Congratulations to Aniella Perold on successfully defending her PhD dissertation on May 20, 2020. The group of impressed committee members included Miriam Steele, Howard Steele, Lisa Rubin and Ellen Freeberg (Dean's Rep). Well done, Aniella! The Center for Attachment Research is proud of you!
A link to Kelsey’s organized and inspiring speech at New School for Social Research’ Recognition Ceremony on May 14, 2020—Congratulations Kelsey, and thanks!