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| Author | Judith Rich Harris |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Personality development |
| Publisher | The Free Press |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-684-84409-5 |
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do is a 1998 book by the psychologist Judith Rich Harris. Originally published 1998 by the Free Press, which published a revised edition in 2009.[1] The book was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
The use of "nurture" as a synonym for "environment" is based on the assumption that what influences children's development, apart from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up. I call this the nurture assumption. Only after rearing two children of my own and coauthoring three editions of a college textbook on child development did I begin to question this assumption. Only recently did I come to the conclusion that it is wrong.
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