The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They DoSimon and Schuster, 25 oct 2011 - 482 páginas A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they do, aside from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up -- is nothing more than a cultural myth. This electrifying book explodes some of our unquestioned beliefs about children and parents and gives us a radically new view of childhood. Harris looks with a fresh eye at the real lives of real children to show that it is what they experience outside the home, in the company of their peers, that matters most, Parents don't socialize children; children socialize children. With eloquence and humor, Judith Harris explains why parents have little power to determine the sort of people their children will become. The Nurture Assumption is an important and entertaining work that brings together insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology to offer a startling new view of who we are and how we got that way. |
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... childhood and children . Like most psychologists , I have argued a lot about the relative roles of genetic endowment and parental upbringing . We all take it for granted that what doesn't come from the genes must come from the parents ...
... childhood and children . Like most psychologists , I have argued a lot about the relative roles of genetic endowment and parental upbringing . We all take it for granted that what doesn't come from the genes must come from the parents ...
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... childhood — a time when parents are bound to be involved in whatever is going on — is crucial . They threw out the script of Freud's psychodrama but retained its cast of characters . The parents still get leading roles , but they no ...
... childhood — a time when parents are bound to be involved in whatever is going on — is crucial . They threw out the script of Freud's psychodrama but retained its cast of characters . The parents still get leading roles , but they no ...
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... childhood . In truth , there is no way to determine with certainty whether these twins are both gigglers because of their identical genes or because they both happened to have had experiences which produced this effect in them ...
... childhood . In truth , there is no way to determine with certainty whether these twins are both gigglers because of their identical genes or because they both happened to have had experiences which produced this effect in them ...
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... childhood - the IQ scores of preadolescent adoptive siblings show a modest correlation . But by late adolescence all nongenetic resemblances have faded away . For IQ as for personality , the correlation between adult adoptees reared in ...
... childhood - the IQ scores of preadolescent adoptive siblings show a modest correlation . But by late adolescence all nongenetic resemblances have faded away . For IQ as for personality , the correlation between adult adoptees reared in ...
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... childhood , said Sulloway , they are heavily invested in the status quo . Unless they get on poorly with their parents , or have other reasons which he enumerated , firstborns have no motivation to rebel . They have no wish to upset an ...
... childhood , said Sulloway , they are heavily invested in the status quo . Unless they get on poorly with their parents , or have other reasons which he enumerated , firstborns have no motivation to rebel . They have no wish to upset an ...
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Other Times Other Places Chapter 6 Human Nature | |
Us and Them | |
Growing | |
Dysfunctional Families and Problem Kids | |
What Parents Can | |
The Nurture Assumption on Trial | |
Personality and Birth Order | |
Testing Theories of Child Development | |
Notes | |
References | |
In the Company of Children | |
The Transmission of Culture | |
Gender Rules | |
Schools of Children | |
Acknowledgments | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and ... Judith Rich Harris Vista previa restringida - 2009 |
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