IAS
Infant Anxiety Around Strangers
Class: I - Natural Selection
EPA Total Score: 0 /100
Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1967). Infancy in Uganda: Infant care and the growth of love. Oxford, England: Johns Hopkins Press.
Abstract: Description of relations among twenty-eight mother-infant pairs in Uganda. Findings indicate earlier manifestation of separation anxiety than in American infants, which seems to be a function of the closer attachment of infant to mother in Uganda.
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