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The Role of Hormones in Mother—Infant Transactions

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The Development of Attachment and Affiliative Systems

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Hormones have been implicated in the facilitation or maintenance of maternal—infant interactions in studies of animals (see Chapters 1, 3, & 6, this volume) and of humans (see Chapter 12, this volume). However, physiological studies of attachment behavior have been less concerned with the process of attachment than with disruptions in attachment; that is, separations between mothers and infants.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, 80262, USA

    Katherine Tennes

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  1. University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

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Tennes, K. (1982). The Role of Hormones in Mother—Infant Transactions. 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_7

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