Author: Jerome Kagan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: mind, argument
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-10-28
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0300126034
ISBN-13: 9780300126037

In this elegantly written book, Jerome Kagan melds the history of the field of psychology during the past 50 years with the story of his own research efforts of the same period and an analysis of what he terms “the currently rocky romance between psychology and biology.” As Kagan unwinds his own history, he reveals the seminal events that have shaped his career and discusses how his assumptions have changed. With full appreciation for the contributions to psychology of history, philosophy, literature, and neuroscience, he approaches a wide range of fascinating topics, including:·   the

Author: Jerome Kagan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: meanings, measures, history, emotion
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-11-26
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0300124740
ISBN-13: 9780300124743

In this sophisticated overview of human emotions, a widely respected psychologist and author addresses the ambiguities and embraces the controversies that surround this intriguing subject. An insightful and lucid thinker, Jerome Kagan examines what exactly we do know about emotions, which popular assumptions about emotions are incorrect, and how scientific study must proceed if we are to uncover the answers to persistent and evasive questions about emotions. Integrating the findings of anthropological, psychological, and biological studies in his wide-ranging discussion, Kagan explores the evi

Author: Jerome Kagan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: ideas, seductive, three
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-04-07
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0674001974
ISBN-13: 9780674001978

Do the first two years of life really determine a child’s future development? Are human beings, like other primates, motivated only by pleasure? And do people really have stable traits, like intelligence, fear, anxiety, and temperament? This book, the product of a lifetime of research by one of the founders of developmental psychology, takes on the powerful assumptions behind these questions -- and proves them mistaken. Ranging with impressive ease from cultural history to philosophy to psychological research literature, Jerome Kagan weaves an argument that will rock the social sciences

Author: Jerome Kagan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: mind, argument
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0300113374
ISBN-13: 9780300113372

In this elegantly written book, Jerome Kagan melds the history of the field of psychology during the past 50 years with the story of his own research efforts of the same period and an analysis of what he terms “the currently rocky romance between psychology and biology.” As Kagan unwinds his own history, he reveals the seminal events that have shaped his career and discusses how his assumptions have changed. With full appreciation for the contributions to psychology of history, philosophy, literature, and neuroscience, he approaches a wide range of fascinating topics, including:·   the

Author: Jerome Kagan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sciences, humanities, century, social, three, natural, cultures
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2009-04-27
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0521732301
ISBN-13: 9780521732307

In 1959 C. P. Snow delivered his now-famous Rede Lecture, "The Two Cultures," a reflection on the academy based on the premise that intellectual life was divided into two cultures: the arts and humanities on one side and science on the other. Since then, a third culture, generally termed "social science" and comprised of fields such as sociology, political science, economics, psychology, and anthropology, has emerged. Jerome Kagan’s book describes the assumptions, vocabulary, and contributions of each of these cultures and argues that the meanings of many of the concepts used by each cul

Author: Jerome Kagan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: ideas, seductive, three
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-11-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0674890337
ISBN-13: 9780674890336

Do the first two years of life really determine a child’s future? Are human beings, like other primates, only motivated by pleasure? Do people actually possess stable traits like intelligence, fear, etc.? Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan challenges some of our most cherished notions about human nature.

Author: Jerome Kagan; Norbert Herschkowitz; Elinore Hersch
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Keywords: brain, growing, mind
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-05-31
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0805854258
ISBN-13: 9780805854251

A Young Mind in a Growing Brain summarizes some initial conclusions that follow simultaneous examination of the psychological milestones of human development during its first decade and what has been learned about brain growth. This volume proposes that development is the process of experience working on a brain that is undergoing significant biological maturation. Experience counts, but only when the brain has developed to the point of being able to process, encode, and interact with these new environmental experiences. This book’s aim is to acquaint developmental biologists and neurosc