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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the infants and mothers who participated in this study. This research was partially funded by a Research Scientist Development Award no. 1K02MH00331-01 from NIMH to T.F.
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This paper was originally published in Infant Behavior and Development 7, 517–522 (1984).