nature or nurture?

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what is more important in one's life,nature or nurture?whats the difference between them with respect to psychology?

-- muhammed usman khan (usman011@hotmail.com), January 25, 2002

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Which is more important: the top side of your bread or the bottom side? Same for nature and nurture -- you can't have one without the other. They do not add. They combine in a wide variety of complicated ways.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), January 25, 2002.

But people have argued about it over the years all the same. You might check a dictionary or encyclopedia of psychology for a historical overview. The Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology & Counseling (Baker Books, 1999) has a nice article on Heredity and Environment in Human Development. In history of psychology textbooks the discussion is generally presented as one between nativism and emipicism. I especially like the way this debate runs as a thread through Dan Robinson's An Intellectual History of Psychology.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), January 26, 2002.

And to copy what I wrote on that thread:

But people have argued about it over the years all the same. You might check a dictionary or encyclopedia of psychology for a historical overview. The Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology & Counseling (Baker Books, 1999) has a nice article on Heredity and Environment in Human Development. In history of psychology textbooks the discussion is generally presented as one between nativism and emipicism. I especially like the way this debate runs as a thread through Dan Robinson's An Intellectual History of Psychology.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), January 28, 2002.


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