Attachment-related mental representations: Introduction to the special issue

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 347-358

  Thompson, Ross A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment representations; Attachment security; Bowlby; Internal working models

Indexed keywords

CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HUMAN; INTUITION; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY;

CHILD; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 56749184077     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: 14692988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730802461334     Document Type: Editorial

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