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Perhaps the most dramatic and significant event occurring during the first year of life is the formation of social attachments. Infantile attachments constitute the first social relationships, crown a rapid phase of emergent social understanding, and appear to have long-term implications for the individual’s personality development. In this chapter, I review recent evidence concerning the development of parent—infant attachments in the first year of life. Then I present a perspective on the manner in which the formation of attachments and individual differences can be interpreted. Finally, I discuss evidence concerning the long-term implications of individual differences in the quality of infant—parent attachments.
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Lamb, M.E. (1982). Parent—Infant Interaction, Attachment, and Socioemotional Development in Infancy. In: Emde, R.N., Harmon, R.J. (eds) The Development of Attachment and Affiliative Systems. Topics in Developmental Psychobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4076-8_14
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