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DATE: September 30, 2026 at 06:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Childhood war exposure might shift the neural correlates of attachment-related anxiety and avoidance
Growing up in a war zone is linked to differences in how a child’s family environment relates to their brain connectivity, a new study suggests. Published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, the research indicates that the link between a child’s attachment-related characteristics and the communication between emotional brain regions differs depending on war-related stress. The findings provide evidence that severe environmental unpredictability is tied to different patterns of neural connectivity, raising the speculative possibility that the developing brain calibrates to its surroundings rather than simply sustaining uniform damage.
Neuroscientists have established that early adversity is linked to altered wiring between emotional hubs and the brain networks responsible for self-control. For example, a study covered by PsyPost in 2025 found that childhood adversity was associated with accelerated decreases in functional connectivity between cortical and subcortical brain regions. These specific neural changes were linked to fewer internalizing symptoms but lower academic performance. Additionally, a 2017 study found that in adult women, a history of childhood stress was linked to altered resting communication between the amygdala and prefrontal regions that regulate emotion.
Building on this foundation, developmental theories predicted that extreme stress recalibrates how attachment and brain systems interact. The authors of a 2011 theoretical paper proposed that harsh, unpredictable environments prompt the developing brain to recalibrate how a child’s stress responses and attachment styles adapt to their surroundings. Applying these ideas to extreme stress, a 2019 study of children growing up near war zones found that chronic adversity is associated with differences in how early caregiving relationships shape empathy-related brain responses.
The new study directly tests this moderation model by examining how a child’s attachment characteristics relate differently to their brain connectivity in the context of war exposure. The research was led by Sarit Roizman and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, an associate professor in the Educational Neuroimaging Group at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. They focused on resting-state functional connectivity, which measures how different brain areas communicate with one another when a person is awake but not focused on a specific task.
“We know that chronic, unpredictable stress in childhood is a major risk factor for later anxiety and mood problems, but we know much less about how it gets ‘under the skin’ in the developing brain,” Horowitz-Kraus told PsyPost. “When the war began on October 7, 2023, our lab was in the middle of an ongoing brain-imaging study of Israeli children. This gave us a rare, if painful, opportunity to compare children scanned during the war with children of similar ages scanned before it.”
“The caregiving environment is the child’s first line of defense against stress, so rather than asking whether war simply makes children’s brains ‘different,’ we asked a more specific question: does living through war change how attachment-related characteristics in the family relate to the brain systems that link thinking and emotion?” she added.
To understand these mechanisms, the researchers recruited 79 children between the ages of 5 and 13. The participants were divided into two groups based on when they were assessed. The war-exposed group included 42 children who lived in Israel and were evaluated between October 2023 and December 2024, during an active period of war. The non-exposed comparison group consisted of 37 children who were assessed prior to the war, between 2021 and August 2023.
All children underwent a resting-state brain scan using magnetic resonance imaging. To help the children stay still in the scanner, they watched abstract visual patterns without sound. Parents completed detailed questionnaires to assess different aspects of the child’s life and behavior. This included a measure of executive functions to track everyday difficulties with memory, organization, and self-control.
Parents also completed a questionnaire assessing attachment-related anxiety, such as worrying about abandonment, and attachment-related avoidance, such as preferring not to share deep feelings. For the war-exposed group, parents filled out a specialized survey tallying the family’s exposure to war-related events. This survey asked how often the family heard air raid sirens, experienced disruptions to their daily routines, or dealt with the absence of a caregiver due to military reserve duty.
The researchers found that the two groups did not differ in their overall levels of attachment-related anxiety or avoidance. Initially, the war-exposed children seemed to have more difficulties with executive functions, but this difference was not statistically significant once the researchers adjusted for nonverbal intelligence and the timing of the assessments. The actual group differences emerged in how the children’s brains were wired in relation to their attachment characteristics.
“War did not produce a single, uniform effect on children,” Horowitz-Kraus noted. “What differed was how attachment related to how the child’s brain is wired, which may have long-term effects.”
In both groups, children showed a range of attachment-related difficulties, but the neural patterns associated with those difficulties differed entirely depending on whether the child was exposed to war. In the war-exposed group, higher levels of attachment anxiety and avoidance were associated with moderately reduced communication between the cingulate cortex and the amygdala, two key structures that process emotional reactions. In the non-exposed group, the exact same attachment difficulties were associated with a different pattern: moderately reduced connectivity between the amygdala and the hippocampus, a brain region central to memory formation.
“What really struck me, which I shouldn’t be surprised about after twenty years of researching this phenomenon, is how behavior is translated into brain function- the anxiety was seen in children’s altered brain function,” Horowitz-Kraus explained. “Within each group, the associations between attachment and emotion-related connectivity were moderate to fairly strong,” she added.
Additionally, the researchers examined communication between large-scale brain networks, such as the default mode network, which is active during internal thought, and the salience network, which detects important emotional or sensory cues. They found indications that the relationship between attachment difficulties and large-scale network communication actually reversed depending on how much war-related exposure a child’s family reported. At lower levels of exposure, attachment difficulties were linked to negative or reduced communication between these networks. At higher levels of exposure, the association flipped, becoming positive. While the overall interaction between exposure and attachment was statistically robust, the specific shifting patterns at each level of exposure did not pass strict statistical thresholds, meaning they should be interpreted with caution.
“This is evidence that should guide further research,” Horowitz-Kraus said. “It cannot be used to diagnose or predict outcomes for any individual child but definitely triggers additional questions related to how different levels of exposure are related to parent-child relations and what the long-term effect would be- we are focusing on these questions these days.”
The findings are in line with research covered by PsyPost in 2024, which found that an individual’s attachment style predicts how their brain’s emotion and cognitive control networks respond to relational experiences and perceived threats. The new results build on this concept, highlighting that extreme environmental stressors like war are tied to complex shifts in how family attachment characteristics and a child’s brain networks relate to one another.
“In other words, similar relational profiles may rest on different brain mechanisms depending on the environment a child is growing up in,” Horowitz-Kraus pointed out. “That matters for how we assess and support children in times of crisis, and it points to caregiver–child relationships and emotional co-regulation as a promising target for support.”
The comparison group, assessed before the official onset of the war, cannot be considered entirely free from stress, as children living in the region may have experienced varying levels of environmental adversity prior to October 2023. Because the two groups were assessed at different time periods, it is difficult to completely separate the effects of war exposure from broader changes that occurred over time.
As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind. “Please don’t read this as ‘war damages children’s brains,'” Horowitz-Kraus emphasized. “One speculative possibility is that these patterns reflect the developing brain calibrating to an unpredictable environment rather than a deficit, but our data cannot tell adaptation apart from vulnerability.”
The study design captures a single snapshot in time, meaning it provides evidence for associations but cannot confirm that war exposure directly causes these brain changes. The researchers also relied on parent-reported questionnaires rather than directly observing parent-child interactions or conducting clinical psychological evaluations. The study did not measure symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, or depression in the children or their parents.
It is possible that the mental health of the parents, who were also experiencing the stress of war, influenced both the children’s brain development and the parents’ responses on the questionnaires. “We are also interested to know if some aspect of children’s characteristics can serve as ‘protecting’ factors- helping some children to be less affected by these adverse events,” the researcher noted.
“The most important next step is longitudinal research that follows these children and others over time, to see whether these brain–behavior patterns predict later emotional and cognitive outcomes and how they change as circumstances stabilize,” Horowitz-Kraus said. “Ultimately, we hope this work will inform interventions that strengthen caregiver–child co-regulation to help buffer children against the effects of prolonged stress.”
“This study complements our related work showing that war-related stress is associated with differences in cognitive-control and sensory network connectivity in children,” she added. “I’m deeply grateful to the families who took part in research during such a difficult period, and to the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation for funding this work.”
The study, “War-related exposure moderates the association between attachment-related characteristics and cognitive–limbic functional connectivity in children: an fMRI study,” was authored by Sarit Roizman, Rola Farah, Ayelet Elor, Dror Kraus, Mika Rotman, Noga Gal, and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus.
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DATE: September 30, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Childhood war exposure might shift the neural correlates of attachment-related anxiety and avoidance
Growing up in a war zone is linked to differences in how a child’s family environment relates to their brain connectivity, a new study suggests. Published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, the research indicates that the link between a child’s attachment-related characteristics and the communication between emotional brain regions differs depending on war-related stress. The findings provide evidence that severe environmental unpredictability is tied to different patterns of neural connectivity, raising the speculative possibility that the developing brain calibrates to its surroundings rather than simply sustaining uniform damage.
Neuroscientists have established that early adversity is linked to altered wiring between emotional hubs and the brain networks responsible for self-control. For example, a study covered by PsyPost in 2025 found that childhood adversity was associated with accelerated decreases in functional connectivity between cortical and subcortical brain regions. These specific neural changes were linked to fewer internalizing symptoms but lower academic performance. Additionally, a 2017 study found that in adult women, a history of childhood stress was linked to altered resting communication between the amygdala and prefrontal regions that regulate emotion.
Building on this foundation, developmental theories predicted that extreme stress recalibrates how attachment and brain systems interact. The authors of a 2011 theoretical paper proposed that harsh, unpredictable environments prompt the developing brain to recalibrate how a child’s stress responses and attachment styles adapt to their surroundings. Applying these ideas to extreme stress, a 2019 study of children growing up near war zones found that chronic adversity is associated with differences in how early caregiving relationships shape empathy-related brain responses.
The new study directly tests this moderation model by examining how a child’s attachment characteristics relate differently to their brain connectivity in the context of war exposure. The research was led by Sarit Roizman and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, an associate professor in the Educational Neuroimaging Group at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. They focused on resting-state functional connectivity, which measures how different brain areas communicate with one another when a person is awake but not focused on a specific task.
“We know that chronic, unpredictable stress in childhood is a major risk factor for later anxiety and mood problems, but we know much less about how it gets ‘under the skin’ in the developing brain,” Horowitz-Kraus told PsyPost. “When the war began on October 7, 2023, our lab was in the middle of an ongoing brain-imaging study of Israeli children. This gave us a rare, if painful, opportunity to compare children scanned during the war with children of similar ages scanned before it.”
“The caregiving environment is the child’s first line of defense against stress, so rather than asking whether war simply makes children’s brains ‘different,’ we asked a more specific question: does living through war change how attachment-related characteristics in the family relate to the brain systems that link thinking and emotion?” she added.
To understand these mechanisms, the researchers recruited 79 children between the ages of 5 and 13. The participants were divided into two groups based on when they were assessed. The war-exposed group included 42 children who lived in Israel and were evaluated between October 2023 and December 2024, during an active period of war. The non-exposed comparison group consisted of 37 children who were assessed prior to the war, between 2021 and August 2023.
All children underwent a resting-state brain scan using magnetic resonance imaging. To help the children stay still in the scanner, they watched abstract visual patterns without sound. Parents completed detailed questionnaires to assess different aspects of the child’s life and behavior. This included a measure of executive functions to track everyday difficulties with memory, organization, and self-control.
Parents also completed a questionnaire assessing attachment-related anxiety, such as worrying about abandonment, and attachment-related avoidance, such as preferring not to share deep feelings. For the war-exposed group, parents filled out a specialized survey tallying the family’s exposure to war-related events. This survey asked how often the family heard air raid sirens, experienced disruptions to their daily routines, or dealt with the absence of a caregiver due to military reserve duty.
The researchers found that the two groups did not differ in their overall levels of attachment-related anxiety or avoidance. Initially, the war-exposed children seemed to have more difficulties with executive functions, but this difference was not statistically significant once the researchers adjusted for nonverbal intelligence and the timing of the assessments. The actual group differences emerged in how the children’s brains were wired in relation to their attachment characteristics.
“War did not produce a single, uniform effect on children,” Horowitz-Kraus noted. “What differed was how attachment related to how the child’s brain is wired, which may have long-term effects.”
In both groups, children showed a range of attachment-related difficulties, but the neural patterns associated with those difficulties differed entirely depending on whether the child was exposed to war. In the war-exposed group, higher levels of attachment anxiety and avoidance were associated with moderately reduced communication between the cingulate cortex and the amygdala, two key structures that process emotional reactions. In the non-exposed group, the exact same attachment difficulties were associated with a different pattern: moderately reduced connectivity between the amygdala and the hippocampus, a brain region central to memory formation.
“What really struck me, which I shouldn’t be surprised about after twenty years of researching this phenomenon, is how behavior is translated into brain function- the anxiety was seen in children’s altered brain function,” Horowitz-Kraus explained. “Within each group, the associations between attachment and emotion-related connectivity were moderate to fairly strong,” she added.
Additionally, the researchers examined communication between large-scale brain networks, such as the default mode network, which is active during internal thought, and the salience network, which detects important emotional or sensory cues. They found indications that the relationship between attachment difficulties and large-scale network communication actually reversed depending on how much war-related exposure a child’s family reported. At lower levels of exposure, attachment difficulties were linked to negative or reduced communication between these networks. At higher levels of exposure, the association flipped, becoming positive. While the overall interaction between exposure and attachment was statistically robust, the specific shifting patterns at each level of exposure did not pass strict statistical thresholds, meaning they should be interpreted with caution.
“This is evidence that should guide further research,” Horowitz-Kraus said. “It cannot be used to diagnose or predict outcomes for any individual child but definitely triggers additional questions related to how different levels of exposure are related to parent-child relations and what the long-term effect would be- we are focusing on these questions these days.”
The findings are in line with research covered by PsyPost in 2024, which found that an individual’s attachment style predicts how their brain’s emotion and cognitive control networks respond to relational experiences and perceived threats. The new results build on this concept, highlighting that extreme environmental stressors like war are tied to complex shifts in how family attachment characteristics and a child’s brain networks relate to one another.
“In other words, similar relational profiles may rest on different brain mechanisms depending on the environment a child is growing up in,” Horowitz-Kraus pointed out. “That matters for how we assess and support children in times of crisis, and it points to caregiver–child relationships and emotional co-regulation as a promising target for support.”
The comparison group, assessed before the official onset of the war, cannot be considered entirely free from stress, as children living in the region may have experienced varying levels of environmental adversity prior to October 2023. Because the two groups were assessed at different time periods, it is difficult to completely separate the effects of war exposure from broader changes that occurred over time.
As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind. “Please don’t read this as ‘war damages children’s brains,'” Horowitz-Kraus emphasized. “One speculative possibility is that these patterns reflect the developing brain calibrating to an unpredictable environment rather than a deficit, but our data cannot tell adaptation apart from vulnerability.”
The study design captures a single snapshot in time, meaning it provides evidence for associations but cannot confirm that war exposure directly causes these brain changes. The researchers also relied on parent-reported questionnaires rather than directly observing parent-child interactions or conducting clinical psychological evaluations. The study did not measure symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, or depression in the children or their parents.
It is possible that the mental health of the parents, who were also experiencing the stress of war, influenced both the children’s brain development and the parents’ responses on the questionnaires. “We are also interested to know if some aspect of children’s characteristics can serve as ‘protecting’ factors- helping some children to be less affected by these adverse events,” the researcher noted.
“The most important next step is longitudinal research that follows these children and others over time, to see whether these brain–behavior patterns predict later emotional and cognitive outcomes and how they change as circumstances stabilize,” Horowitz-Kraus said. “Ultimately, we hope this work will inform interventions that strengthen caregiver–child co-regulation to help buffer children against the effects of prolonged stress.”
“This study complements our related work showing that war-related stress is associated with differences in cognitive-control and sensory network connectivity in children,” she added. “I’m deeply grateful to the families who took part in research during such a difficult period, and to the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation for funding this work.”
The study, “War-related exposure moderates the association between attachment-related characteristics and cognitive–limbic functional connectivity in children: an fMRI study,” was authored by Sarit Roizman, Rola Farah, Ayelet Elor, Dror Kraus, Mika Rotman, Noga Gal, and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus.
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DATE: September 30, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Childhood war exposure might shift the neural correlates of attachment-related anxiety and avoidance
Growing up in a war zone is linked to differences in how a child’s family environment relates to their brain connectivity, a new study suggests. Published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, the research indicates that the link between a child’s attachment-related characteristics and the communication between emotional brain regions differs depending on war-related stress. The findings provide evidence that severe environmental unpredictability is tied to different patterns of neural connectivity, raising the speculative possibility that the developing brain calibrates to its surroundings rather than simply sustaining uniform damage.
Neuroscientists have established that early adversity is linked to altered wiring between emotional hubs and the brain networks responsible for self-control. For example, a study covered by PsyPost in 2025 found that childhood adversity was associated with accelerated decreases in functional connectivity between cortical and subcortical brain regions. These specific neural changes were linked to fewer internalizing symptoms but lower academic performance. Additionally, a 2017 study found that in adult women, a history of childhood stress was linked to altered resting communication between the amygdala and prefrontal regions that regulate emotion.
Building on this foundation, developmental theories predicted that extreme stress recalibrates how attachment and brain systems interact. The authors of a 2011 theoretical paper proposed that harsh, unpredictable environments prompt the developing brain to recalibrate how a child’s stress responses and attachment styles adapt to their surroundings. Applying these ideas to extreme stress, a 2019 study of children growing up near war zones found that chronic adversity is associated with differences in how early caregiving relationships shape empathy-related brain responses.
The new study directly tests this moderation model by examining how a child’s attachment characteristics relate differently to their brain connectivity in the context of war exposure. The research was led by Sarit Roizman and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, an associate professor in the Educational Neuroimaging Group at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. They focused on resting-state functional connectivity, which measures how different brain areas communicate with one another when a person is awake but not focused on a specific task.
“We know that chronic, unpredictable stress in childhood is a major risk factor for later anxiety and mood problems, but we know much less about how it gets ‘under the skin’ in the developing brain,” Horowitz-Kraus told PsyPost. “When the war began on October 7, 2023, our lab was in the middle of an ongoing brain-imaging study of Israeli children. This gave us a rare, if painful, opportunity to compare children scanned during the war with children of similar ages scanned before it.”
“The caregiving environment is the child’s first line of defense against stress, so rather than asking whether war simply makes children’s brains ‘different,’ we asked a more specific question: does living through war change how attachment-related characteristics in the family relate to the brain systems that link thinking and emotion?” she added.
To understand these mechanisms, the researchers recruited 79 children between the ages of 5 and 13. The participants were divided into two groups based on when they were assessed. The war-exposed group included 42 children who lived in Israel and were evaluated between October 2023 and December 2024, during an active period of war. The non-exposed comparison group consisted of 37 children who were assessed prior to the war, between 2021 and August 2023.
All children underwent a resting-state brain scan using magnetic resonance imaging. To help the children stay still in the scanner, they watched abstract visual patterns without sound. Parents completed detailed questionnaires to assess different aspects of the child’s life and behavior. This included a measure of executive functions to track everyday difficulties with memory, organization, and self-control.
Parents also completed a questionnaire assessing attachment-related anxiety, such as worrying about abandonment, and attachment-related avoidance, such as preferring not to share deep feelings. For the war-exposed group, parents filled out a specialized survey tallying the family’s exposure to war-related events. This survey asked how often the family heard air raid sirens, experienced disruptions to their daily routines, or dealt with the absence of a caregiver due to military reserve duty.
The researchers found that the two groups did not differ in their overall levels of attachment-related anxiety or avoidance. Initially, the war-exposed children seemed to have more difficulties with executive functions, but this difference was not statistically significant once the researchers adjusted for nonverbal intelligence and the timing of the assessments. The actual group differences emerged in how the children’s brains were wired in relation to their attachment characteristics.
“War did not produce a single, uniform effect on children,” Horowitz-Kraus noted. “What differed was how attachment related to how the child’s brain is wired, which may have long-term effects.”
In both groups, children showed a range of attachment-related difficulties, but the neural patterns associated with those difficulties differed entirely depending on whether the child was exposed to war. In the war-exposed group, higher levels of attachment anxiety and avoidance were associated with moderately reduced communication between the cingulate cortex and the amygdala, two key structures that process emotional reactions. In the non-exposed group, the exact same attachment difficulties were associated with a different pattern: moderately reduced connectivity between the amygdala and the hippocampus, a brain region central to memory formation.
“What really struck me, which I shouldn’t be surprised about after twenty years of researching this phenomenon, is how behavior is translated into brain function- the anxiety was seen in children’s altered brain function,” Horowitz-Kraus explained. “Within each group, the associations between attachment and emotion-related connectivity were moderate to fairly strong,” she added.
Additionally, the researchers examined communication between large-scale brain networks, such as the default mode network, which is active during internal thought, and the salience network, which detects important emotional or sensory cues. They found indications that the relationship between attachment difficulties and large-scale network communication actually reversed depending on how much war-related exposure a child’s family reported. At lower levels of exposure, attachment difficulties were linked to negative or reduced communication between these networks. At higher levels of exposure, the association flipped, becoming positive. While the overall interaction between exposure and attachment was statistically robust, the specific shifting patterns at each level of exposure did not pass strict statistical thresholds, meaning they should be interpreted with caution.
“This is evidence that should guide further research,” Horowitz-Kraus said. “It cannot be used to diagnose or predict outcomes for any individual child but definitely triggers additional questions related to how different levels of exposure are related to parent-child relations and what the long-term effect would be- we are focusing on these questions these days.”
The findings are in line with research covered by PsyPost in 2024, which found that an individual’s attachment style predicts how their brain’s emotion and cognitive control networks respond to relational experiences and perceived threats. The new results build on this concept, highlighting that extreme environmental stressors like war are tied to complex shifts in how family attachment characteristics and a child’s brain networks relate to one another.
“In other words, similar relational profiles may rest on different brain mechanisms depending on the environment a child is growing up in,” Horowitz-Kraus pointed out. “That matters for how we assess and support children in times of crisis, and it points to caregiver–child relationships and emotional co-regulation as a promising target for support.”
The comparison group, assessed before the official onset of the war, cannot be considered entirely free from stress, as children living in the region may have experienced varying levels of environmental adversity prior to October 2023. Because the two groups were assessed at different time periods, it is difficult to completely separate the effects of war exposure from broader changes that occurred over time.
As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind. “Please don’t read this as ‘war damages children’s brains,'” Horowitz-Kraus emphasized. “One speculative possibility is that these patterns reflect the developing brain calibrating to an unpredictable environment rather than a deficit, but our data cannot tell adaptation apart from vulnerability.”
The study design captures a single snapshot in time, meaning it provides evidence for associations but cannot confirm that war exposure directly causes these brain changes. The researchers also relied on parent-reported questionnaires rather than directly observing parent-child interactions or conducting clinical psychological evaluations. The study did not measure symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, or depression in the children or their parents.
It is possible that the mental health of the parents, who were also experiencing the stress of war, influenced both the children’s brain development and the parents’ responses on the questionnaires. “We are also interested to know if some aspect of children’s characteristics can serve as ‘protecting’ factors- helping some children to be less affected by these adverse events,” the researcher noted.
“The most important next step is longitudinal research that follows these children and others over time, to see whether these brain–behavior patterns predict later emotional and cognitive outcomes and how they change as circumstances stabilize,” Horowitz-Kraus said. “Ultimately, we hope this work will inform interventions that strengthen caregiver–child co-regulation to help buffer children against the effects of prolonged stress.”
“This study complements our related work showing that war-related stress is associated with differences in cognitive-control and sensory network connectivity in children,” she added. “I’m deeply grateful to the families who took part in research during such a difficult period, and to the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation for funding this work.”
The study, “War-related exposure moderates the association between attachment-related characteristics and cognitive–limbic functional connectivity in children: an fMRI study,” was authored by Sarit Roizman, Rola Farah, Ayelet Elor, Dror Kraus, Mika Rotman, Noga Gal, and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus.
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DATE: September 10, 2026 at 06:00PM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Chronic shame may drive destructive thought patterns in abuse survivors
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Adults who experienced emotional abuse as children often struggle with destructive thought patterns, such as ruminating on failures or avoiding negative feelings. A recent study published in the British Journal of Psychology suggests that chronic feelings of shame may link this early maltreatment to these harmful mental habits. By understanding how shame operates, psychologists may be better equipped to help survivors regulate their emotions in healthier ways.
Childhood emotional abuse involves caregivers engaging in non-physical maltreatment. This can include threatening, terrorizing, or constantly belittling a child. These early experiences of humiliation directly attack a child’s developing sense of self-worth.
Survivors of emotional abuse frequently develop difficulties with emotion regulation in adulthood. They often rely on aversive cognitive perseveration. This psychological term describes a tendency to over-engage with negative thoughts while simultaneously trying to reject or avoid negative feelings.
Aversive cognitive perseveration consists of three main components. The first is brooding rumination, which involves getting stuck on self-reproaching thoughts. The second is experiential avoidance, where a person puts effort into suppressing unwanted internal sensations. The third is emotional non-acceptance, which occurs when a person becomes angry or upset at themselves simply for feeling distressed.
These habits represent a type of response-focused emotion regulation. This means the person attempts to manage an emotion after it has already fully emerged, rather than trying to change their perspective beforehand. This late-stage regulation is often exhausting and counterproductive, leaving the individual trapped in a cycle of distress.
Shame is a powerful emotion that centers on a devalued sense of self. Unlike guilt, which focuses on a specific bad action, shame focuses on the idea that the entire person is flawed. Shame can exist as a chronic trait, meaning a person frequently feels inadequate across many situations. It can also occur as a temporary state in response to a specific humiliating event.
Mohammadali Amini-Tehrani, a psychology researcher at the University of Western Australia, led a team to investigate the mechanisms behind these psychological challenges. The researchers wanted to know if shame serves as the bridge between a history of childhood emotional abuse and the use of cognitive perseveration in adulthood.
The study involved 93 undergraduate students. First, the participants completed a series of questionnaires. They reported any history of childhood maltreatment, including emotional abuse. They also answered questions about their general tendencies to experience chronic shame and their usual reliance on cognitive perseveration in daily life.
Next, the participants engaged in a laboratory experiment designed to induce a temporary feeling of shame. They played a computer game called Cyberball, a well-established psychological tool for studying social exclusion. In the game, participants believed they were tossing a virtual ball back and forth with three other real people. In reality, the other players were computerized avatars programmed to eventually stop passing the ball to the participant.
To heighten the feeling of shame, the researchers modified the standard game. The game ended with a direct message informing the participant that they were being removed from the activity for having the lowest performance in the group. After this rejection, the researchers assessed the participants’ immediate feelings of shame and negative affect. Following a brief distraction task, the researchers measured the participants’ immediate use of cognitive perseveration strategies.
The researchers first analyzed the data to see how chronic tendencies related to behavior in the lab. They found that a history of childhood emotional abuse predicted higher levels of chronic shame. This chronic shame then predicted a greater reliance on cognitive perseveration in general life. It also predicted a higher use of these harmful thought patterns immediately following the laboratory rejection.
The team also tested whether an immediate spike in shame during the game would link past abuse to immediate cognitive perseveration. The results were not statistically significant in the expected direction. Participants with a history of emotional abuse did not report higher immediate shame or higher immediate cognitive perseveration right after being rejected in the game.
Looking closer at the data, the researchers noticed an unexpected pattern. For participants who reported moderate to severe levels of childhood emotional abuse, immediate feelings of shame and cognitive perseveration actually decreased after the rejection. The researchers suggest this might reflect a blunted emotional response. People who have experienced severe early stress sometimes develop an emotional numbness or physiological detachment when faced with new stressful situations.
Regardless of abuse history, the study confirmed a robust link between shame and cognitive perseveration. Whether measured as a chronic trait or an immediate reaction, higher feelings of shame consistently accompanied higher levels of brooding, avoidance, and emotional non-acceptance. The researchers suggest that when people feel a deep sense of shame, they try to fix the perceived flaws in themselves through intense overthinking.
Clinically, these findings highlight the need for targeted therapies. Mental health practitioners might need to help clients distinguish between generalized distress and specific feelings of shame. Because shame inherently encourages avoidance, it can be difficult for people to recognize it in themselves.
The study relied on a sample of 93 students, which limits the statistical power of the analyses. The findings based on this sample size provide tentative suggestions rather than definitive answers. Additionally, the participants were university students who were screened to exclude severe depression. This screening means the results might not automatically apply to clinical populations or the broader community.
The experiment also relied entirely on self-reported feelings collected during a single session. Participants might not always have accurate insight into their own emotional responses. The laboratory task might have also induced other emotions, such as fear or shock, which could have influenced the participants’ thought patterns. Researchers cannot be certain that shame was the sole driver of the observed behaviors.
Future studies could incorporate physiological measures, such as heart rate or skin conductance, to track bodily reactions alongside subjective feelings. Observing these physical markers could help clarify whether survivors of emotional abuse experience a physiological shutdown during stressful events. Researchers could also track participants over a longer period to see how immediate feelings of shame might solidify into long-term negative self-views.
The study, “Shame as a mediator of the association of childhood emotional abuse with aversive cognitive perseveration in adults,” was authored by Mohammadali Amini-Tehrani, Michael Weinborn, Kenneth Sim, Jeneva L. Ohan, and Kristin Naragon-Gainey.
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Adults who experienced emotional abuse as children often struggle with destructive thought patterns, such as ruminating on failures or avoiding negative feelings. A recent study published in the British Journal of Psychology suggests that chronic feelings of shame may link this early maltreatment to these harmful mental habits. By understanding how shame operates, psychologists may be better equipped to help survivors regulate their emotions in healthier ways.
Childhood emotional abuse involves caregivers engaging in non-physical maltreatment. This can include threatening, terrorizing, or constantly belittling a child. These early experiences of humiliation directly attack a child’s developing sense of self-worth.
Survivors of emotional abuse frequently develop difficulties with emotion regulation in adulthood. They often rely on aversive cognitive perseveration. This psychological term describes a tendency to over-engage with negative thoughts while simultaneously trying to reject or avoid negative feelings.
Aversive cognitive perseveration consists of three main components. The first is brooding rumination, which involves getting stuck on self-reproaching thoughts. The second is experiential avoidance, where a person puts effort into suppressing unwanted internal sensations. The third is emotional non-acceptance, which occurs when a person becomes angry or upset at themselves simply for feeling distressed.
These habits represent a type of response-focused emotion regulation. This means the person attempts to manage an emotion after it has already fully emerged, rather than trying to change their perspective beforehand. This late-stage regulation is often exhausting and counterproductive, leaving the individual trapped in a cycle of distress.
Shame is a powerful emotion that centers on a devalued sense of self. Unlike guilt, which focuses on a specific bad action, shame focuses on the idea that the entire person is flawed. Shame can exist as a chronic trait, meaning a person frequently feels inadequate across many situations. It can also occur as a temporary state in response to a specific humiliating event.
Mohammadali Amini-Tehrani, a psychology researcher at the University of Western Australia, led a team to investigate the mechanisms behind these psychological challenges. The researchers wanted to know if shame serves as the bridge between a history of childhood emotional abuse and the use of cognitive perseveration in adulthood.
The study involved 93 undergraduate students. First, the participants completed a series of questionnaires. They reported any history of childhood maltreatment, including emotional abuse. They also answered questions about their general tendencies to experience chronic shame and their usual reliance on cognitive perseveration in daily life.
Next, the participants engaged in a laboratory experiment designed to induce a temporary feeling of shame. They played a computer game called Cyberball, a well-established psychological tool for studying social exclusion. In the game, participants believed they were tossing a virtual ball back and forth with three other real people. In reality, the other players were computerized avatars programmed to eventually stop passing the ball to the participant.
To heighten the feeling of shame, the researchers modified the standard game. The game ended with a direct message informing the participant that they were being removed from the activity for having the lowest performance in the group. After this rejection, the researchers assessed the participants’ immediate feelings of shame and negative affect. Following a brief distraction task, the researchers measured the participants’ immediate use of cognitive perseveration strategies.
The researchers first analyzed the data to see how chronic tendencies related to behavior in the lab. They found that a history of childhood emotional abuse predicted higher levels of chronic shame. This chronic shame then predicted a greater reliance on cognitive perseveration in general life. It also predicted a higher use of these harmful thought patterns immediately following the laboratory rejection.
The team also tested whether an immediate spike in shame during the game would link past abuse to immediate cognitive perseveration. The results were not statistically significant in the expected direction. Participants with a history of emotional abuse did not report higher immediate shame or higher immediate cognitive perseveration right after being rejected in the game.
Looking closer at the data, the researchers noticed an unexpected pattern. For participants who reported moderate to severe levels of childhood emotional abuse, immediate feelings of shame and cognitive perseveration actually decreased after the rejection. The researchers suggest this might reflect a blunted emotional response. People who have experienced severe early stress sometimes develop an emotional numbness or physiological detachment when faced with new stressful situations.
Regardless of abuse history, the study confirmed a robust link between shame and cognitive perseveration. Whether measured as a chronic trait or an immediate reaction, higher feelings of shame consistently accompanied higher levels of brooding, avoidance, and emotional non-acceptance. The researchers suggest that when people feel a deep sense of shame, they try to fix the perceived flaws in themselves through intense overthinking.
Clinically, these findings highlight the need for targeted therapies. Mental health practitioners might need to help clients distinguish between generalized distress and specific feelings of shame. Because shame inherently encourages avoidance, it can be difficult for people to recognize it in themselves.
The study relied on a sample of 93 students, which limits the statistical power of the analyses. The findings based on this sample size provide tentative suggestions rather than definitive answers. Additionally, the participants were university students who were screened to exclude severe depression. This screening means the results might not automatically apply to clinical populations or the broader community.
The experiment also relied entirely on self-reported feelings collected during a single session. Participants might not always have accurate insight into their own emotional responses. The laboratory task might have also induced other emotions, such as fear or shock, which could have influenced the participants’ thought patterns. Researchers cannot be certain that shame was the sole driver of the observed behaviors.
Future studies could incorporate physiological measures, such as heart rate or skin conductance, to track bodily reactions alongside subjective feelings. Observing these physical markers could help clarify whether survivors of emotional abuse experience a physiological shutdown during stressful events. Researchers could also track participants over a longer period to see how immediate feelings of shame might solidify into long-term negative self-views.
The study, “Shame as a mediator of the association of childhood emotional abuse with aversive cognitive perseveration in adults,” was authored by Mohammadali Amini-Tehrani, Michael Weinborn, Kenneth Sim, Jeneva L. Ohan, and Kristin Naragon-Gainey.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/chronic-shame-may-drive-destructive-thought-patterns-in-abuse-survivors/
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DATE: September 10, 2026 at 06:00PM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Chronic shame may drive destructive thought patterns in abuse survivors
URL: https://www.psypost.org/chronic-shame-may-drive-destructive-thought-patterns-in-abuse-survivors/
Adults who experienced emotional abuse as children often struggle with destructive thought patterns, such as ruminating on failures or avoiding negative feelings. A recent study published in the British Journal of Psychology suggests that chronic feelings of shame may link this early maltreatment to these harmful mental habits. By understanding how shame operates, psychologists may be better equipped to help survivors regulate their emotions in healthier ways.
Childhood emotional abuse involves caregivers engaging in non-physical maltreatment. This can include threatening, terrorizing, or constantly belittling a child. These early experiences of humiliation directly attack a child’s developing sense of self-worth.
Survivors of emotional abuse frequently develop difficulties with emotion regulation in adulthood. They often rely on aversive cognitive perseveration. This psychological term describes a tendency to over-engage with negative thoughts while simultaneously trying to reject or avoid negative feelings.
Aversive cognitive perseveration consists of three main components. The first is brooding rumination, which involves getting stuck on self-reproaching thoughts. The second is experiential avoidance, where a person puts effort into suppressing unwanted internal sensations. The third is emotional non-acceptance, which occurs when a person becomes angry or upset at themselves simply for feeling distressed.
These habits represent a type of response-focused emotion regulation. This means the person attempts to manage an emotion after it has already fully emerged, rather than trying to change their perspective beforehand. This late-stage regulation is often exhausting and counterproductive, leaving the individual trapped in a cycle of distress.
Shame is a powerful emotion that centers on a devalued sense of self. Unlike guilt, which focuses on a specific bad action, shame focuses on the idea that the entire person is flawed. Shame can exist as a chronic trait, meaning a person frequently feels inadequate across many situations. It can also occur as a temporary state in response to a specific humiliating event.
Mohammadali Amini-Tehrani, a psychology researcher at the University of Western Australia, led a team to investigate the mechanisms behind these psychological challenges. The researchers wanted to know if shame serves as the bridge between a history of childhood emotional abuse and the use of cognitive perseveration in adulthood.
The study involved 93 undergraduate students. First, the participants completed a series of questionnaires. They reported any history of childhood maltreatment, including emotional abuse. They also answered questions about their general tendencies to experience chronic shame and their usual reliance on cognitive perseveration in daily life.
Next, the participants engaged in a laboratory experiment designed to induce a temporary feeling of shame. They played a computer game called Cyberball, a well-established psychological tool for studying social exclusion. In the game, participants believed they were tossing a virtual ball back and forth with three other real people. In reality, the other players were computerized avatars programmed to eventually stop passing the ball to the participant.
To heighten the feeling of shame, the researchers modified the standard game. The game ended with a direct message informing the participant that they were being removed from the activity for having the lowest performance in the group. After this rejection, the researchers assessed the participants’ immediate feelings of shame and negative affect. Following a brief distraction task, the researchers measured the participants’ immediate use of cognitive perseveration strategies.
The researchers first analyzed the data to see how chronic tendencies related to behavior in the lab. They found that a history of childhood emotional abuse predicted higher levels of chronic shame. This chronic shame then predicted a greater reliance on cognitive perseveration in general life. It also predicted a higher use of these harmful thought patterns immediately following the laboratory rejection.
The team also tested whether an immediate spike in shame during the game would link past abuse to immediate cognitive perseveration. The results were not statistically significant in the expected direction. Participants with a history of emotional abuse did not report higher immediate shame or higher immediate cognitive perseveration right after being rejected in the game.
Looking closer at the data, the researchers noticed an unexpected pattern. For participants who reported moderate to severe levels of childhood emotional abuse, immediate feelings of shame and cognitive perseveration actually decreased after the rejection. The researchers suggest this might reflect a blunted emotional response. People who have experienced severe early stress sometimes develop an emotional numbness or physiological detachment when faced with new stressful situations.
Regardless of abuse history, the study confirmed a robust link between shame and cognitive perseveration. Whether measured as a chronic trait or an immediate reaction, higher feelings of shame consistently accompanied higher levels of brooding, avoidance, and emotional non-acceptance. The researchers suggest that when people feel a deep sense of shame, they try to fix the perceived flaws in themselves through intense overthinking.
Clinically, these findings highlight the need for targeted therapies. Mental health practitioners might need to help clients distinguish between generalized distress and specific feelings of shame. Because shame inherently encourages avoidance, it can be difficult for people to recognize it in themselves.
The study relied on a sample of 93 students, which limits the statistical power of the analyses. The findings based on this sample size provide tentative suggestions rather than definitive answers. Additionally, the participants were university students who were screened to exclude severe depression. This screening means the results might not automatically apply to clinical populations or the broader community.
The experiment also relied entirely on self-reported feelings collected during a single session. Participants might not always have accurate insight into their own emotional responses. The laboratory task might have also induced other emotions, such as fear or shock, which could have influenced the participants’ thought patterns. Researchers cannot be certain that shame was the sole driver of the observed behaviors.
Future studies could incorporate physiological measures, such as heart rate or skin conductance, to track bodily reactions alongside subjective feelings. Observing these physical markers could help clarify whether survivors of emotional abuse experience a physiological shutdown during stressful events. Researchers could also track participants over a longer period to see how immediate feelings of shame might solidify into long-term negative self-views.
The study, “Shame as a mediator of the association of childhood emotional abuse with aversive cognitive perseveration in adults,” was authored by Mohammadali Amini-Tehrani, Michael Weinborn, Kenneth Sim, Jeneva L. Ohan, and Kristin Naragon-Gainey.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/chronic-shame-may-drive-destructive-thought-patterns-in-abuse-survivors/
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🔨 Emotion down-regulation isn't suppression. It's about negotiating with yourself to reach a rational emotional state. This can be your secret weapon in achieving team goals faster. #EmotionRegulation #Leadership
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Exploring putative therapeutic mechanisms of change in a hybrid compassion-focused, ecological momentary intervention: Findings from the #EMIcompass trial
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1hR851KMddOT6This #SecondaryAnalysis* of this exploratory #RCT suggests that
#SelfCompassion and #EmotionRegulation may be a therapeutic mechanisms of change.#PsychotherapyResearch #EcologicalMomentary #Transdiagnostic
*Main paper here: https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/49/3/592/7026043?login=false
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50 days free access to:
Exploring putative therapeutic mechanisms of change in a hybrid compassion-focused, ecological momentary intervention: Findings from the #EMIcompass trial
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1hR851KMddOT6This #SecondaryAnalysis* of this exploratory #RCT suggests that
#SelfCompassion and #EmotionRegulation may be a therapeutic mechanisms of change.#PsychotherapyResearch #EcologicalMomentary #Transdiagnostic
*Main paper here: https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/49/3/592/7026043?login=false
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It’s not BPD; it’s autism
https://embrace-autism.com/its-not-bpd-its-autism/
#Borderlinepersonalitydisorder(BPD) #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Interpersonalrelationships #Emotionaldysregulation #Personalitydisorders #Emotionalreactivity #Sensorysensitivity #Socialintelligence #Emotionregulation #Psychometrictest #Specialinterests #Suicidalideation #Childhoodtrauma #Autisticwomen #Co-occurrence #Meta-analysis #Self-identity #WilliamMandy #Abandonment #Suicidality #Socialcues #LauraHull -
It’s not BPD; it’s autism
https://embrace-autism.com/its-not-bpd-its-autism/
#Borderlinepersonalitydisorder(BPD) #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Interpersonalrelationships #Emotionaldysregulation #Personalitydisorders #Emotionalreactivity #Sensorysensitivity #Socialintelligence #Emotionregulation #Psychometrictest #Specialinterests #Suicidalideation #Childhoodtrauma #Autisticwomen #Co-occurrence #Meta-analysis #Self-identity #WilliamMandy #Abandonment #Suicidality #Socialcues #LauraHull -
It’s not BPD; it’s autism
https://embrace-autism.com/its-not-bpd-its-autism/
#Borderlinepersonalitydisorder(BPD) #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Interpersonalrelationships #Emotionaldysregulation #Personalitydisorders #Emotionalreactivity #Sensorysensitivity #Socialintelligence #Emotionregulation #Psychometrictest #Specialinterests #Suicidalideation #Childhoodtrauma #Autisticwomen #Co-occurrence #Meta-analysis #Self-identity #WilliamMandy #Abandonment #Suicidality #Socialcues #LauraHull -
Does anyone know of a good article that looks at the difference between #emotionregulation and #regulation when viewing #emotion faces in children?
Essentially, are lab tasks that look at a child's regulation when viewing sad/happy/angry faces getting at the same process as lab tasks that are meant to frustrate/ dysregulate a child? Or are these two different, but related processes?
I tweeted about this on the bird app, but still don't have a great ref to use that looks at the differences between these two processes. Bonus if an article looks at it in conduct problem populations.
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Does anyone know of a good article that looks at the difference between #emotionregulation and #regulation when viewing #emotion faces in children?
Essentially, are lab tasks that look at a child's regulation when viewing sad/happy/angry faces getting at the same process as lab tasks that are meant to frustrate/ dysregulate a child? Or are these two different, but related processes?
I tweeted about this on the bird app, but still don't have a great ref to use that looks at the differences between these two processes. Bonus if an article looks at it in conduct problem populations.
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Does anyone know of a good article that looks at the difference between #emotionregulation and #regulation when viewing #emotion faces in children?
Essentially, are lab tasks that look at a child's regulation when viewing sad/happy/angry faces getting at the same process as lab tasks that are meant to frustrate/ dysregulate a child? Or are these two different, but related processes?
I tweeted about this on the bird app, but still don't have a great ref to use that looks at the differences between these two processes. Bonus if an article looks at it in conduct problem populations.
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Does anyone know of a good article that looks at the difference between #emotionregulation and #regulation when viewing #emotion faces in children?
Essentially, are lab tasks that look at a child's regulation when viewing sad/happy/angry faces getting at the same process as lab tasks that are meant to frustrate/ dysregulate a child? Or are these two different, but related processes?
I tweeted about this on the bird app, but still don't have a great ref to use that looks at the differences between these two processes. Bonus if an article looks at it in conduct problem populations.