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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

By Judith Rich Harris

Book information

Publisher
Free Press
Year
2009
ISBN
1439101655, 9781439101650, 9781439135082
LCC
HQ772 .H353 2009
Google Books ID
-uKBJRMJBjcC
Open Library ID
OL22559979M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
763 kB (781593 bytes)
Edition
2nd, revised and updated
Pages
\0
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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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