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Unit number:     PSY 209 

Unit title:           The Nurture Assumption

Credit value:      3 credits 

Description:        Based on a study of the controversial book by Judith Rich Harris, this course re-examines the nature-nurture controversy and the time-honoured principles that genetics and/or parenting determine our character and behaviour.  Harris’s work reveals a third influence: children’s own peer cultures have a hitherto unacknowledged major role in socialization and in forming the character of the adult, and this role could be the predominant one.

Key textbook:    Harris, Judith Rich. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do.  London: Bloomsbury, 1998. 

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