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How can we test attachment theories if our subjects aren't attached?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Megan R. Gunnar
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif. 94305

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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