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During the 1960s and 1970s, ethological concepts came to hold much fascination for theoreticians of human development. Animal studies on dominance hierarchies and on social bonds were especially influential. Field observations of developing parent-offspring bonds in birds (e.g., Lorenz, 1935/1957; Lorenz, 1957; Tinbergen, 1951) and mammals, especially nonhuman primates (e.g., DeVore, 1965), provided novel ways of thinking about and of studying the human infant’s attachment to parents, as well as human parents’ attachment to their infants. Previously unfamiliar terms, such as imprinting, critical period, supernormal stimulus and fixed action pattern, entered developmental psychologists’ vocabulary.
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