The Nurture Assumption

Auteur

Judith Rich Harris

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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.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

CONTENTS

Foreword by Steven Pinker

Preface

1 "Nurture" Is Not the Same as "Environment"

2 The Nature (and Nurture) of the Evidence

3 Nature, Nurture, and None of the Above

4 Separate Worlds

5 Other Times, Other Places

6 Human Nature

7 Us and Them

8 In the Company of Children

9 The Transmission of Culture

10 Gender Rules

11 Schools of Children

12 Growing Up

13 Dysfunctional Families and Problem Kids

14 What Parents Can Do

15 The Nurture Assumption on Trial

Appendixes

1 Personality and Birth Order

2 Testing Theories of Child Development

Notes

References

Index