Parental embodied mentalizing: how the nonverbal dance between parents and infants predicts children’s socio-emotional functioning

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  2017

• Venue

  Attachment & Human Development

• Publication date

  2017-03-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1080/14616734.2016.1255653PMID 27852170
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