What do mothers attune to during interactions with their infants?

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 387-402

  Jonsson, Carl Otto ^a,c   Clinton, David ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affect attunement; Affect mirroring; Infant development

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748684355     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.466     Document Type: Article

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