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  1. Department of Psychology, Brescia University College at Western, London, ON, Canada

    Anne Barnfield

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

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    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. University of Central Oklahoma Edmond, Edmond, OK, USA

    Alicia Lyon-Limke McLean

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Barnfield, A. (2020). Ainsworth, Mary. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_356

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