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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 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 bltadwin.ru: Free Press. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do Judith Rich Harris NewYork: The Free Press, , pp. US$ cloth. ISBN US$ paper. ISBN Simon and Schuster, Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY , USA. Peter K. Smith University of London, United Kingdom.  · The child’s environment, i.e., nurture, is also responsible for 50% of the variation among children. For Harris, however, nurture equals peer group pressures—forget about adults and teachers. She cites research showing that humans, like other primates, have been blindly designed through evolution to be group animals and learn the best behaviors to assure survival through Author: Peter Barglow.


The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do Judith Rich Harris, Author, Steven Pinker, Foreword by Free Press $26 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. The greatest challenge for me is to explain why everyone -- in and out of psychology -- is so certain that parents do have important and lasting effects on their children. I call this certainty *the nurture assumption* (Harris, in preparation): it is the assumption that the formative aspects of the child's environment are the home and the parents. Buy The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do 2nd Revised, Updated ed. by Harris, Judith Rich (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.


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. The nurture assumption is that, aside from their genes, what influences the way children develop is the way their parents bring them up. In other words, we assume parents are the whole environment, when in reality the environment includes much more. This groundbreaking book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times notable pick, rattled the psychological establishment when it was first published in 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.

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