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Two questions for a general theory of infantile attachment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Marc H. Bornstein
Marc H. Bornstein
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Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. 06544
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 1979 , pp. 636 - 637
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