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The Nurture Assumption
副标题: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
ISBN: 9780684857077
出版社: Free Press
出版年: 1999-09-01
页数: 462
定价: USD 15.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
How 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 and gives us a radically new view of childhood.
Harris looks with a fresh eye at the real lives of real children to show that it is what they experience outside the home, in the company of their peers, that matters most, Parents don't socialize children; children socialize children. With eloquence and humor, Judith Harris explains why parents have little power to determine the sort of people their children will become.
The Nurture Assumption is an important and entertaining work that brings together insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology to offer a startling new view of who we are and how we got that way.
作者简介
作者主要觀點是認為人格形成過程中,遺傳自父母的基因和同儕都很重要, 但父母的教養方式並無決定性的影響. 並從遺傳學, 社會人類學, 心理學, 語言學的觀點, 舉了非常有力的證據來支持這個新的說法. 作者三十多年前被哈佛心理系博士班退學, 但之後卻成為暢銷心理教科書的作者, 而 1995 年當她的文章” 教養的迷思” 發表在心理學最權威的Psychological review 期刊時引起軒然大波, 因為過去近百年來, 沒有人挑戰過教養的假設, 而且文章出自一篇沒有掛任何研究所, 大學教授頭銜的女性作者. 但是 1997 年美國心理協會 ( American Psychological Association)因為這篇論文頒給她傑出論文獎.
