Sensitive periods in human social development: New insights from research on oxytocin, synchrony, and high-risk parenting

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  2015

• Venue

  Development and Psychopathology

• Publication date

  2015-05-01

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  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1017/S0954579415000048PMID 25997760
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