SHORT COMMUNICATION Oxytocin enhances the experience of attachment security
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Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland Department of Psychology, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Germany Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Technical University Munich, Germany Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Germany
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