Infant social interactions with multiple caregivers: The importance of ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 328-348

  Fouts, Hillary N ^a   Roopnarine, Jaipaul L ^b   Lamb, Michael E ^c   Evans, Melanie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

family child rearing; infant child cultural psychology; socioeconomic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855612033     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110388564     Document Type: Article

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