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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
Megan R. Gunnar
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif. 94305
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 1978 , pp. 447 - 448
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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