Ashley M. Groh

Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA

About the author:

I study how parents’ attachment experiences in childhood contribute to the attachment relationships they establish with their own children. My research regularly includes measures of brain activity and autonomic physiological responding to uncover mechanisms of attachment transmission from parent to child.

What I want to achieve:

My research is aimed at providing insight into how to break the intergenerational cycle of insecurity. By incorporating neurobiological measures to understand parent-child relationships, my research may elucidate specific cognitions and emotions that parents have that impede their ability to provide nurturing care to their children that might be targeted to improve parenting behavior and attachment quality.