Attachment theory, culture, and Africa: Past, present, and future

Attachment: Expanding the Cultural Connections

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 181-194

  Tomlinson, Mark ^a   Murray, Lynne ^b   Cooper, Peter ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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