Traits, Behavioral Systems, and Relationships: Three Models of Infant-adult Attachment
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The pace at which new attachment research appears seems to have slackened. Recent critiques have suggested that everything implied by the notion of a bond between infant and adult can be captured by studying patterns of interactive behavior, without invoking the concept of attachment (Rosenthal 1973). Weinraub et al. (1977) have even wondered whether an attachment construct has any value at all from a logical and scientific point of view.
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