4.0
Harris examines with a fresh eye the 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 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.
...challenges a fundamental assumption made in child development theory that the environmental influences on children come predominantly via parents. Accessible, rigorous - and surprisingly funny.
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Language:
English
Length:
462 pages
Author:
Judith Rich Harris
