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    The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development

    Jerome Kagan

    A renowned psychologist unravels the universal from the individual in human development to answer the question: what are we born with and what do we learn?

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    Nature of the Child

    Jerome Kagan

    The world-famous Harvard psychologist challenges many of psychologys most deeply held assumptions about human developmentarguing, for example, that early experience does not inexorably shape our lives and that the influence…

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    The Growth of the Child: Reflections on Human Development

    Jerome Kagan

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    Unstable Ideas: Temperament, Cognition, and Self

    Jerome Kagan

    Kagan demonstrates that innovative research methods in the behavioral sciences and neurobiology, together with a renewed philosophical commitment to rigorous empiricism, are transforming our understanding of human behavior. He calls…

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    Three Seductive Ideas

    Jerome Kagan

    Do the first two years of life really determine a child’s future development? Are human beings motivated only by pleasure? Do people have stable traits, like intelligence, fear, anxiety, and…

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    Surprise, Uncertainty, and Mental Structures

    Jerome Kagan

    In the distinctive manner that has made him one of the most influential forces in developmental psychology, Kagan challenges scientific commonplaces about mental processes, pointing in particular to the significant…

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    Galen’s Prophecy: Temperament In Human Nature

    Jerome Kagan

    Nearly two thousand years ago a physician named Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behavior could be explained by an individual’s temperament. Since that time…

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    An Argument for Mind

    Jerome Kagan

    Argues that a complete understanding of brain is not synonymous with a full explanation of mind. This work covers topics such as: the abandonment of orthodox forms of behaviourism and…

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    What Is Emotion?: History, Measures, and Meanings

    Jerome Kagan

    Examines what exactly we do know about emotions, which popular assumptions about emotions are incorrect, and how scientific study must proceed if we are to uncover the answers to persistent…

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    Psychology’s Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back

    Jerome Kagan

    A leading psychologist takes a hard look at his profession today and argues for important changes in practices and attitudes

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    On Being Human: Why Mind Matters

    Jerome Kagan

    A revered psychologist invites us to re-examine our thinking about controversial contemporary issues, from the genetic basis for behaviors to the functions of education

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    Trio Of Pursuits, A: Puzzles In Human Development

    Jerome Kagan (Harvard Univ, Usa)

    The culmination of almost seven decades of research, A Trio of Pursuits: Puzzles in Human Development is the magnum opus of the career of Dr. Jerome Kagan, Emeritus Professor of…

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    The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century

    Jerome Kagan (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

    Jerome Kagan examines the basic goals, vocabulary, and assumptions of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, summarizing their unique contributions to our understanding of human nature.

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    The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century

    Jerome Kagan (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

    Jerome Kagan examines the basic goals, vocabulary, and assumptions of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, summarizing their unique contributions to our understanding of human nature.

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    A Young Mind in a Growing Brain

    Jerome Kagan,Norbert Herschkowitz

    This is a book for developmental neuropsychology courses taught at the undergraduate or graduate level. This volume proposes that development is the process of experience working on a brain that…

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    A Young Mind in a Growing Brain

    Jerome Kagan,Norbert Herschkowitz

    This is a book for developmental neuropsychology courses taught at the undergraduate or graduate level. This volume proposes that development is the process of experience working on a brain that…

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    The Long Shadow of Temperament

    Jerome Kagan,Nancy Snidman

    Kagan and Snidman summarize the results of this unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal studies in developmental psychology. These results reveal how deeply certain fundamental temperamental…

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    The Emergence of Morality in Young Children

    The Emergence of Morality in Young Children is one of very few scholarly books concerning the development of moral tendencies in the early years. In its pages, a diverse group…

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    Birth to Maturity: A Study in Psychological Development

    Jerome Kagan,Howard A. Moss

    This relevant and influential book is the analysis of a longitudinal study of eighty-nine individuals who were assessed at birth and again at regular intervals; observational, psychometric, and interview data…

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    Contemporary Issues in Thematic Apperceptive Methods.

    Jerome Kagan,Gerald S. Lesser

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    Constancy and Change in Human Development

    How malleable is human nature? Can an individual really change in meaningful ways? Or, are there immutable limits on the possibilities of human growth set in place by genes and…

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    Five Constraints on Predicting Behavior

    Jerome Kagan (Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Harvard University)

    A distinguished psychologist considers five conditions that constrain inferences about the relation between brain activity and psychological processes.

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    Kinds Come First: Age, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Give Meaning to Measures

    Jerome Kagan (Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Harvard University)

    An argument that the meaning of a psychological or biological measure depends on the age, gender class, and ethnicity of the human subject.

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    The Second Year

    Jerome Kagan (Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Kennedy School of Government Harvard University)

    The second year is that daunting time when the previously docile and adorable infant inevitably develops a mind of her own. In this book, Kagan takes a provocative look at…

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    Birth to Maturity

    Jerome Kagan,Howard Moss

    This relevant and influential book is the analysis of a longitudinal study of eighty-nine individuals who were assessed at birth and again at regular intervals; observational, psychometric, and interview data…

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    Infancy: Its Place in Human Development, With a New Foreword by the Authors

    Jerome Kagan,Richard B. Kearsley,Philip R. Zelazo

    Infancy presents the long-awaited report of the authors’ 6-year study of infant day care that will affect future thinking on the cognitive and emotional processes in infancy and later growth…

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    Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change

    Lawrence Harrison E Harrison

    Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of…

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    Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change

    Lawrence Harrison E Harrison

    Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of…

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    Galen’s Prophecy: Temperament In Human Nature

    Jerome Kagan,Nancy Snidman,Doreen Arcus,J. Steven Reznick

    Nearly two thousand years ago a physician named Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behavior could be explained by an individual’s temperament. Since that time…

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    Psychopathology: The Evolving Science of Mental Disorder

    A survey of the matured study of mental disorder, with contributions from prominent scholars in the field. Coverage includes neuroanatomical, developmental, cognitive and genetic factors involved in schizophrenia and other…

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    Psychopathology: The Evolving Science of Mental Disorder

    Psychopathology, dedicated to the career of Professor Philip Holzman, surveys the matured study of mental disorder, with contributions from prominent scholars in the field. Coverage includes neuroanatomical, developmental, cognitive and…

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    Methods and Models for Studying the Individual

    Robert B. Cairns,etc.,Lars R. Bergman (Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden),Jerome Kagan (Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)

    How can the richness of individual lives be captured by the objective methods and statistical analyses of developmental research? Some of the leaders in developmental research pursue the answers to…

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    Preservation of Two Infant Temperaments into Adolescence

    Nathan A. Fox,Laurence D. Steinberg,Jerome Kagan,Nancy Snidman,Sara Towsley

    Temperament has been a central element of the on-going effort to describe the distinctiveness of persons at every stage of development. Many researchers have examined the relations of temperament to…

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