The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

By M. Perkins. British medical journal, 2000

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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility (2014, critical): “Contrary to the interpretation in a literature that claims a limited role for parental influence (Harris, 2009), the observed correlations are the result of successful active parenting.”
Nature over nurture: temperament, personality, and life span development. (2000, background): “A recent book on the limited influences of parenting (Harris, 1998) was greeted with alarm by many psychologists, who interpreted it to imply that the way parents treat their children does not matter (Begley, 1998).”
Study Involvement of Academic and Vocational Students: Does Between-School Tracking Sharpen the Difference? (2009, background): “By explicitly differentiating students into ability groups, processes of categorization and self-categorization are reinforced, yielding contrast effects (Harris, 1998; Terwel, 2005).”
Self-esteem of academic and vocational students: Does within-school tracking sharpen the difference? (2012, background): “By explicitly differentiating students in ability groups, processes of categorization and self-categorization are reinforced, yielding contrast effects (Harris, 1998).”
Reexamining Social Class Differences in the Availability and the Educational Utility of Parental Social Capital (2008, background): “In her controversial book The Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris (1998) claimed that to the extent that adolescent development is influenced by social networks, most often peers, not parents, exercise the strongest influence on social behaviors.”
School leadership, sex and gender: welcome to difference (2008, background): “Judith Harris (1998) caused a great deal of controversy with her assertion that the influence of their peers on the personal development of children and adolescents is much greater than the influence of parental upbringing.”
Interdependence as a Mediator between Culture and Interpersonal Closeness for Euro-Canadians and Turks (2004, neutral): “The fact that individuals reported the same level of closeness to family and friends suggests the high importance of peers in early adulthood (e.g., Harris, 1998; Parish & Necessary, 1995).”
Do parents still matter? Parent and peer influences on alcohol involvement among recent high school graduates. (2004, background): “Indeed, the recent publication of a book by Harris (1998) questioning the relative importance of parents versus peers with respect to adolescent development sparked spirited media debate.”
A Five-Factor Theory Perspective (2002, background): “Richard Nixon was profoundly disagreeable (McCrae, Yang, et al., 2001), but he was high enough in Conscientiousness to be twice elected President.”
Math Achievement in Early Adolescence (2009, background): “, 2001) as do those imposed by teachers, classmates, and other peer groups (Harris, 1998; Midgley et al., 2000; Urdan & Schoenfelder, 2006).”
“Feeling caught” as a mediator of adolescents' and young adults' avoidance and satisfaction with their parents in divorced and non-divorced households (2003, background): “Thus, one must take into account the fact that parents with such genetic predispositions could also have children who assume similar characteristics (see Harris, 1995, 1998 for discussions on this issue).”
Nature and Nurture: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Behavior (2005, background): “Although most research has focused on the family environment, it seems reasonable that experiences outside the family, with peers and individual life events, for example, might prove to be richer sources of nonshared environment (Harris 1998).”