The Nature of the Child

The Nature of the Child

Author	Jerome Kagan
Subject	Developmental psychology
Publisher	Basic Books
Publication date	1984
Pages	309
ISBN	0465048501

The Nature of the Child is a 1984 book by American psychologist Jerome Kagan. In a series of essays, Kagan challenges beliefs in child rearing and developmental psychology, namely that negative or positive attachments to parents necessarily results in a child's wellbeing as they mature. Kagan argues that such beliefs are unsupported and that a child's temperament relies more on biology and cognitive development. ^[1]

References

Notes

1. Goleman 1984

Sources

• Goleman, Daniel (18 November 1984). "Not The Father of The Man". The New York Times.

Commentary and reviews

• Berlin, Irving N. (January 1986). "Review of The nature of the child,". American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 56 (1): 153–155. doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1986.tb01553.x.
• Broyard, Anatole (14 September 1984). "Books of The Times". The New York Times.
• Cook, Sarah Sheets (March 1986). "The nature of the child By Jerome Kagan". Journal of Nurse-Midwifery. 31 (2): 115–116. doi:10.1016/0091-2182(86)90115-1.
• Goleman, Daniel (18 November 1984). "Not The Father of The Man". The New York Times.
• Herzog, James (January 1986). "Book reviews: The Nature of the Child". The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 67: 380–382.
• Holyoke, T. C. (1986). "The Nature of the Child review". The Antioch Review. 44 (2): 244. doi:10.2307/4611604.
• Kadushin, Alfred (1987). "Review of The Nature of the Child". Social Service Review. 61 (3): 544–546. ISSN   0037-7961.
• Peterson, Steven (July 1985). "The nature of the child By Jerome Kagan. New York: Basic Books, 1984". Journal of Social and Biological Systems. 8 (3): 302–303. doi:10.1016/0140-1750(85)90077-6.
• Roberts, Sam (21 May 2021). "Jerome Kagan, Who Tied Temperament to Biology, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
• Schaffer, H. R. (1 November 1985). "Review of The Nature of the Child". British Journal of Psychology. 76 (4): 542–543.
• Storr, Anthony (5 November 1984). "The child is father to the man". The New Republic. 19 (191): 40.
• Tavris, Carol (3 November 1984). "New Hope for Freud Sufferers". The Nation. 239 (14): 454–457.
• Thorne, Barrie (1986). "Review of The Nature of the Child" . Contemporary Sociology. 15 (3): 413–414. doi:10.2307/2070043. ISSN   0094-3061.