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The Nurture Assumption

Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

The Nurture Assumption( )
Author: Harris, Judith Rich
Foreword by: Pinker, Steven
ISBN:978-0-684-85707-7
Publication Date:Sep 1999
Publisher:Free Press
Imprint:Free Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.00
Book Description:

A NEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOKHow 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...
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Book Details
Pages:480
Detailed Subjects: Psychology / Developmental / Child
Family & Relationships / Parenting / General
Science / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.125 x 9.25 x 1.2 Inches
Book Weight:1.175 Pounds
Author Biography
Harris, Judith Rich (Author)
Judith Rich Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 10, 1938. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brandeis University in 1959 and a master's in psychology from Harvard University in 1961. She was dismissed from the doctoral program at Harvard. She worked briefly as a teaching assistant at M.I.T. and as a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania. She later worked as a research assistant for Bell Labs.

Harris suffered from a chronic autoimmune disorder. Eventually the severity of her illness kept her housebound and she became a textbook writer. While writing college textbooks on child development, she realized she didn't believe what she was telling readers about why children turn out the way they do. She believed that children are influenced more by their genes and peers than by their parents. She wrote her theory up for an academic journal and won a prize from the American Psychological Association. She wrote books on the subject including The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do and No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality. She died on December 29, 2018 at the age of 80.

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