Caregiver-infant interactions in humans: reciprocity and interactional synchrony

Stages of attachment identified by Schaffer

Multiple attachments and the role of the father

Animal studies of attachment: Lorenz and Harlow

Explanations of attachment

Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation’. Types of attachment: secure, insecure-avoidant and insecure resistant

Cultural variations in attachment, including van Ijzendoorn

Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation

Romanian orphan studies: effects of  institutionalisation

The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships, including the role of an
internal working model

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