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A relational view of causality in normal and abnormal development.
Development and psychopathology - 1 Jan 2002
Gottlieb Gilbert, Halpern Carolyn Tucker
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An understanding of developmental phenomena demands a relational or coactive concept of causality, as opposed to a conceptualization that assumes that singular causes can act in isolation. In this article we present a developmental psychobiological systems view of relational (bidirectional, coactional) causality, in which it is proposed that developmental outcomes are a consequence of at least two specific...
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