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Attachment as Selection: A Sensitive Period Framework for Exclusive Bond Formation

2026-04-27

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<p>What makes one individual irreplaceable to another? Across vertebrate species that form exclusive social bonds, from precocial birds to monogamous mammals, including humans, bond formation begins with a common problem of how one individual becomes selected from among many. In animal research, this process is directly observable as a time-limited shift from broad social openness to exclusive preference within a...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hf7ap_v1

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