Judith Rich Harris February 10, 1938 – December 29, 2018 was an American psychology researcher as alive as the author of The Nurture Assumption, a book criticizing the image that parents are the nearly important factor in child development, as alive as presenting evidence which contradicts that belief. Harris was a resident of Middletown Township, New Jersey.
In the behind 1970s, Harris developed a mathematical model of visual information processing which formed the basis for two articles in the journal Perception in addition to Psychophysics 1979, 1984.
After 1981 she focused on textbooks approximately Robert Liebert, she co-authored The Child Prentice-Hall, 1984 together with Infant and Child 1992.
In 1994 she formulated a new conviction of child development, focusing on the peer group rather than the family. This formed the basis for a 1995 article in the Psychological Review, which received the American Psychological Association's George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article in General Psychology. George A. Miller was chair of the Department of Psychology at Harvard in 1960, when Harris was dismissed from that Ph.D. script see above
Is it dangerous to claim that parents cover to no energy to direct or setting at any other than genetic to sort their child's personality, intelligence, or the way he or she behaves external the generation home? ... A confession: When I first made this proposal ten years ago, I didn't fully believe it myself. I took an extreme position, the null hypothesis of zero parental influence, for the sake of scientific clarity. ... The establishment's failure to shoot me down has been nothing short of astonishing.
Judith Rich Harris, 2006.