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25 - Infant Attachment (to Mother and Father) and Its Place in Human Development

Five Decades of Promising Research (and an Unsettled Issue)

from Part VI - Emotional and Social Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2020

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Or Dagan  and
Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
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Jeffrey J. Lockman  and
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Jeffrey J. Lockman
Affiliation:
Tulane University, Louisiana
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Affiliation:
New York University
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Summary

“There are few blows to the human spirit so great as the loss of someone near and dear,” wrote Bowlby in one of many groundbreaking papers.

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Attachment theoryinfant-caregiver attachmentStrange Situation Procedure (SSP)secure attachmentinsecure attachmentHPA axisstress and attachmentculture and attachmentmultiple caregivers and attachmentfather attachmentchild maltreatment and attachment
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The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development
Brain, Behavior, and Cultural Context
 , pp. 687 - 714
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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