{"title":"The 20-year documentary of genetic nurturing: The realization of Harris’s insight","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2024.101151","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Harris’s The Nature Assumption (1998) challenged the then-common belief that the non-genetic factor is the family (parental) environment or nurture. Nurture is not synonymous with environment, she argued. This argument has taken off and generated a large body of research, which, 20 years after the appearance of Harris’s book, was labeled as the inquiry into genetic nurturance (<span><span>Kong et al., 2018</span></span>). This article briefly describes the major concepts and premises underlying this field of inquiry. Just like Harris did in her book, it starts with a brief overview of current family-based quasi-experimental designs used for studying genetic nurturance. It then provides an update on several recent reviews of genetic nurturance research. It closes with a discussion of the significance of the research on genetic nurturance and the role Harris’s insight of 20 years ago played in it.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Developmental Review","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273229724000352","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Harris’s The Nature Assumption (1998) challenged the then-common belief that the non-genetic factor is the family (parental) environment or nurture. Nurture is not synonymous with environment, she argued. This argument has taken off and generated a large body of research, which, 20 years after the appearance of Harris’s book, was labeled as the inquiry into genetic nurturance (Kong et al., 2018). This article briefly describes the major concepts and premises underlying this field of inquiry. Just like Harris did in her book, it starts with a brief overview of current family-based quasi-experimental designs used for studying genetic nurturance. It then provides an update on several recent reviews of genetic nurturance research. It closes with a discussion of the significance of the research on genetic nurturance and the role Harris’s insight of 20 years ago played in it.
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Presenting research that bears on important conceptual issues in developmental psychology, Developmental Review: Perspectives in Behavior and Cognition provides child and developmental, child clinical, and educational psychologists with authoritative articles that reflect current thinking and cover significant scientific developments. The journal emphasizes human developmental processes and gives particular attention to issues relevant to child developmental psychology. The research concerns issues with important implications for the fields of pediatrics, psychiatry, and education, and increases the understanding of socialization processes.