Attachment and Bonding
Ahnert, Lieselotte / Carter, C. Sue / Grossmann, K. E.
Scientists from different disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, pediatrics, neurobiology, endocrinology, and molecular biology, explore the concepts of attachment and bonding from varying scientific perspectives.Attachment and bonding are evolved processes, the mechanisms that permit the development of selective social bonds are assumed to be very ancient, based on neural circuitry rooted deep in mammalian evolution, but...