Temperamental Thread How Genes, Culture, Time and Luck Make Us Who We Are

Name: Temperamental Thread How Genes, Culture, Time and Luck Make Us Who We Are
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ISBN: 9781932594508

ISBN-10: 1932594507

ISBN-13: 9781932594508

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jerome Kagan

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Temperament is the single most pervasive aspect of us and our fellow human beings. We notice it; we gossip about it; we make judgments based on it; we unconsciously shape our lives around it. InThe Temperamental Thread, developmental psychologist Jerome Kagan draws on decades of research to describe the nature of temperament-the in-born traits that underlie our responses to experience. Along the way he answers such questions as, How does the temperament we are born with affect the rest of our lives? Are we set at birth on an irrevocable path of optimism or pessimism? Must a fussy baby always become an anxious adult? Kagan paints a picture of temperament as a thread that, when woven with…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Dana Press, The
Publication date: 4/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Jerome Kagan is Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.



Acknowledgments


Foreword




Introduction: What Are Human Temperaments?



Reacting to the Unexpected



Experience and Inference



Temperament and Gender



Temperament and Ethnicity



Temperament and Mental Illness



What Have We Learned?


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Index