Harris, Judith Rich

האריס, ג׳ודית ריץ׳

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Child psychology
Child development
Child rearing
Nature and nurture

found: The child, from birth through adolescence, c1984:CIP t.p. (Judith Rich Harris)

found: Judith Rich Harris article in Wikipedia, viewed April 20, 2018(Judith Rich Harris, born February 19, 1938; psychology researcher; studies the influence of parents and other factors on children's psychological development; author of The nurture assumption and No two alike)

found: New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 2, 2019(in obituary published Jan. 1: Judith Rich Harris; b. Judith Rich, Feb. 10, 1938, Brooklyn; her family settled in the mid-1940s in Tucson; m. Charles S. Harris, 1961; d. Saturday [Dec. 29, 2018], Middletown, N.J., aged 80; psychologist; was writing college textbooks on child development when she suddenly realized she didn't believe what she was telling readers about why children turn out the way they do. She had her own theory: that children are influenced more by their genes and peers than by their parents; worked for Bell Labs as a research assistant; did not have a doctorate and was not writing from an academic perch)