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The Origins of You
How Childhood Shapes Later Life
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See moreDoes temperament in childhood shape adult personality? Four psychologists followed thousands of people as they grew up, observing how genes, parenting, and other aspects of young peopleβs experience influence development. This holistic approach offers unprecedented insight into what makes us the adults we become.
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A Marginal Revolution Best Book of the Year
After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world's preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how humans develop.
Does temperament in childhood predict adult personality? What role do parents play in shaping how a child matures? Is day care badβor goodβfor children? Does adolescent delinquency forecast a life of crime? Do genes influence success in life? Is health in adulthood shaped by childhood experiences?
In search of answers to these and similar questions, four leading psychologists have spent their careers studying thousands of people, observing them as they've grown up and grown older. The result is unprecedented insight into what makes each of us who we are.
In The Origins of You, Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie Moffitt, and Richie Poulton share what they have learned about childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, about genes and parenting, and about vulnerability, resilience, and success. The evidence shows that human development is not subject to ironclad laws but instead is a matter of possibilities and probabilitiesβmultiple forces that together determine the direction a life will take.
A child's early years do predict who they will become later in life, but they do so imperfectly. For example, genes and troubled families both play a role in violent male behaviour, and, though health and heredity sometimes go hand in hand, childhood adversity and severe bullying in adolescence can affect even physical well-being in midlife.
Painstaking and revelatory, the discoveries in The Origins of You promise to help schools, parents, and all people foster well-being and ameliorate or prevent developmental problems.
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The Origins of You is praised for offering deep insights into how childhood traits influence adult lives. Reviewers highlight the book's comprehensive approach, blending authoritative psychological studies with the authors' visionary perspectives. It is described as engaging for both newcomers to developmental psychology and seasoned scholars, destined to reshape thinking about human development. The book is admired for its depth, curiosity, and the timely exploration of human resilience, making it an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of developmental psychology.
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ISBN: 9780674983458
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 11 August 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Illustration: 28 illus.
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 38.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 798g
Pages: 432
About the Author
Jay Belsky is the Robert M. and Natalie Reid Dorn Professor of Human Development at the University of California, Davis. He was a founding investigator of the NIH Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development in the United States and the National Evaluation of Sure Start in the United Kingdom. He received the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award from the American Psychological Association. Avshalom Caspi is the Edward M. Arnett Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and Professor of Personality Development at Kingβs College London. He is a recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology. Terrie E. Moffitt is the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor at Duke University and Professor of Social Behaviour and Development at Kingβs College London. She has received a host of honors, including the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Richie Poulton was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where he served as codirector of the National Centre for Lifecourse Research. An elected fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, he received the New Zealand Prime Ministerβs Science Prize for the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study.
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