Research Catalog

Title

The nurture assumption : why children turn out the way they do / by Judith Rich Harris.

Author

Harris, Judith Rich

Publication

New York : Free Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

xxx, 448 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Overview: This groundbreaking book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times notable pick, rattled the psychological establishment when it was first published in 1998 by claiming that parents have little impact on their children's development. In this tenth anniversary edition of The Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris has updated material throughout and provided a fresh introduction. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology, she explains how and why the tendency of children to take cues from their peers works to their evolutionary advantage. This electrifying book explodes many of our unquestioned beliefs about children and parents and gives us a radically new view of childhood.

Alternative Title

Why children turn out the way they do

Subject

• Child development > United States
• Child rearing > United States
• Nature and nurture > United States
• Children and the environment > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-429) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to the second edition -- Foreword to the first edition / Steven Pinker -- Preface to the first edition -- Nurture is not the same as "environment -- Nature (and nurture) of the evidence -- Nature, nurture, and none of the above -- Separate worlds -- Other times, other places -- Human nature -- Us and them -- In the company of children -- Transmission of culture -- Gender rules -- Schools of children -- Growing up -- Dysfunctional families and problem kids -- What parents can do -- Nurture assumption on trial -- Appendix 1: Personality and birth order -- Appendix 2: Testing theories of child development -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the author.

ISBN

• 9781439101650
• 1439101655

LCCN

^^2008032979

OCLC

• 232979558
• SCSB-11068507

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library