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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Psychology
Judith Rich Harris argues that peers and genes, not parental nurture, are the dominant forces shaping a child's personality and intelligence. Pinker wrote its foreword and cites it as a major influence on The Blank Slate.
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“A grandmother from New Jersey uses genetics, ethnography, and child psychology to refute the dogma that parents shape their children's intelligence and personality. A major influence on my own book "The Blank Slate."”
From Pinker's One Grand list; he also wrote the book's foreword.
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1 SOURCE- onegrandbooks.com · Steven Pinker reading list
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