Universal and culture-specific aspects of human behavior: The case of attachment

Culture and Human Development: The Importance of Cross-Cultural Research for the Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 71-90

  Grossmann, Klaus E ^a   Grossmann, Karin ^a   Keppler, Anika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203015056     Document Type: Chapter

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