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Article: Nature loves nurture. (Revolutionary Studies in Child Psychology).
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- Camping Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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In the spring of 2002, Psychologist Wallace Dixon published the results of a survey of 1,500 randomly selected, doctoral-level members of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). He had asked the society members which studies, published since 1950, they considered "most revolutionary."
* In this series, psychologist Christopher Thurber -- an ACA member as well as a member of SRCD -- shares a summary of the top twenty most revolutionary studies. Thurber has grouped these twenty studies into six topics: (1) nature and nurture; (2) attachment and temperament; (3) language; (4) cognitive development; (5) parenting and socialization; and (6) risk and ...