NO TWO ALIKE
Human Nature and Human Individuality
Judith Rich Harris
W.W. Norton, 2007
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
The clinician will learn what shapes personality differences; the relationship of systems, such as personal relationships, socialization, and status systems, which interact to form personality.
Harris develops a complex scheme based on "the modular mind" a framework set forth by Harvard University evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker and others. She describes three modules-- the relationship system, the socialization system and the status system-- and explains how each contributes its part to making us who we are. The relationship system starts in the cradle as infants study and learn the faces and voices of the people around them, collecting information that helps form personality. The socialization system adapts people to their culture. The status system takes all the information collected during childhood and adolescence and shapes and modifies our personalitys in accord with our environments.
Judith Rich Harris is the author of The Nurture Assumption and a former writer of college textbooks on child development who realized that much of what she had been telling her readers was wrong. Her theoretical article on development won the George Miller award from the American Psychological Association.
9 CE credits; 265 pages
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