LoginGalen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature
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Kagan, one of the world's eminent developmental psychologists, has argued for several decades that human nature is not infinitely malleable. In this book he discusses a project he has led for the past 15 years involving the study of toddlers who demonstrated two temperamental extremes: the inhibited (shy and withdrawn) and the uninhibited (placid and outgoing). Kagan's research uncovered a significant pattern of behavioral and physiological differences distinguishing these two groups from earliest infancy and found that these traits tend to persist at least into early adolescence. He includes a history of the idea of temperament
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Manufacturer: Westview Press
Release date: 17 January 1997
ISBN-10 : 0813333555 |
Release date: 17 January 1997
ISBN-10 : 0813333555 |
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