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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do is a 1998 book by the psychologist Judith Rich Harris. Originally published 1998 by the Free Press, which published a revised edition in 2009. [ 1] The book was a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist (general non-fiction) . The use of "nurture" as a synonym for "environment" is based on the ...
No Two Alike expands on some of the ideas from her previous book The Nurture Assumption, especially the effect of birth order on personality and criticism of developmental psychology. She also attempts to answer some of the criticisms leveled at The Nurture Assumption. Harris proposes that three distinct mental systems shape personality:
Judith Rich Harris (February 10, 1938 – December 29, 2018) was an American psychology researcher and the author of The Nurture Assumption, a book criticizing the belief that parents are the most important factor in child development, and presenting evidence which contradicts that belief. [1] Harris was a resident of Middletown Township, New ...
The 1st edition PDF is in the public domain. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Taʻū in American Samoa. The book details the sexual life ...
Arthur Robert Jensen (August 24, 1923 – October 22, 2012) was an American psychologist and writer. He was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. [ 1][ 2] Jensen was known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, the study of how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another.
Olivia Dubyak for PureWow. My Review of the Nurture& Glider Plus The Pros. At 42.5 inches high, 33 inches wide and 38 inches deep, this is a pretty big chair.
The Essential New York Times Cookbook is a cookbook published by W. W. Norton & Company and authored by former The New York Times food editor Amanda Hesser. The book was originally published in October 2010 and contains over 1,400 recipes from the past 150 years in The New York Times (as of 2010), all of which were tested by Hesser and her assistant, Merrill Stubbs, prior to the book's ...
Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, academic, and proponent of eugenics. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford School of Education. Terman is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating ...