The Nature-Nurture Debates: Bridging the Gap (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521148795)

How is it possible that in more than one hundred years, the nature-nurture debate has not come to a satisfactory resolution? The problem, Dale Goldhaber argues, lies not with the proposed answers, but with the question itself. In The Nature-Nurture Debates, Goldhaber reviews the four major perspectives on the issue - behavior genetics, environment, evolutionary psychology, and developmental systems theory - and shows that the classic, reductionist strategies (behavior genetics and environmental approaches) are incapable of resolving the issue because they each offer a false perspective on the process of human development. It is only through a synthesis of the two holistic perspectives of evolutionary psychology and developmental systems theory that we will be able to understand the nature of human behavior.

Author: Dale Goldhaber
ISBN-10: 0521148790
ISBN-13: 9780521148795
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2012
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2013