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Embodiment and agency: toward a holistic synthesis for developmental science

David C Witherington1, Shirley Heying

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA. dcwither@unm.edu

Advances in Child Development and Behavior
|July 10, 2013
PubMed
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Relational developmental systems approaches offer a holistic framework for understanding development across biological, psychological, and sociocultural levels. This perspective emphasizes interlevel relations and explanatory pluralism for a comprehensive view of living systems.

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