The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

內容簡介
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.

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"A graceful, lucid, and utterly persuasive assault on virtually every tenet of child development." -- Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker

"Ten years on, this book stands as a landmark in the history of psychology -- and a cracking good read." -- Steven Pinker
 

作者簡介

Judith Rich Harris is the author of No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality . A former writer of college textbooks, Harris is a recipient of a George A. Miller award, given to the author of an outstanding article in psychology. She is an independent investigator and theoretician whose interests include evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, and behavioral genetics.
 

目錄

Introduction to the Second Edition
Foreword to the First Edition by Steven Pinker
Preface to the First Edition

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

Appendix 1. Personality and Birth Order
Appendix 2. Testing Theories of Child Development

Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
 

文摘

Chapter 1: "NURTURE" IS NOT THE SAME AS "ENVIRONMENT"

Heredity and environment. They are the yin and yang, the Adam and Eve, the Mom and Pop of pop psychology. Even in high school I knew enough about the subject to inform my parents, when they yelled at me, that if they didn't like the way I was turning out they had no one to blame but themselves: they had provided both my heredity and my environment.

"Heredity and environment" -- that's what we called them back then. Nowadays they are more often referred to as "nature and nurture." Powerful as they were under the names they were born with, they are yet more powerful under their alliterative aliases. Nature and nurture rule. Everyone knows it, no one questions it: nature and nurture are the movers and shapers. They made us what we are today and will determine what our children will be tomorrow.

In an article in the January 1998 issue of Wired, a science journalist muses about the day -- twenty? fifty? a hundred years from now? -- when parents will be able to shop for their children's genes as easily as today they shop for their jeans. "Genotype choice," the journalist calls it. Would you like a girl or a boy? Curly hair or straight? A whiz at math or a winner of spelling bees? "It would give parents a real power over the sort of people their children will turn out to be," he says. Then he adds, "But parents have that power already, to a large degree."
 

基本信息
出版社: Free Press; Rev Upd (2009年2月24日)
平裝: 480頁
語種： 英語
ISBN: 1439101655
條形碼: 9781439101650
商品尺寸: 15.5 x 3.6 x 23.5 cm
商品重量: 499 g
ASIN: 1439101655