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What Is Emotion?

History, Measures, and Meanings

by Jerome Kagan ...

"Kagan . . . surveys a broad range of qualitative ideas from anthropology, psychology, and neurology to discuss the complexity of emotion as we know it." — Science NewsFinalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Psychology CategoryIn this sophisticated overview of human emotions, a widely respected psychologist and author addresses the ambiguities an... ... Read more

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"Kagan . . . surveys a broad range of qualitative ideas from anthropology, psychology, and neurology to discuss the complexity of emotion as we know it." — Science NewsFinalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Psychology CategoryIn this sophisticated overview of human emotions, a widely respected psychologist and author addresses the ambiguities an...
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On Being Human

Why Mind Matters

by Jerome Kagan ...

In this thought-provoking book, psychologist Jerome Kagan urges readers to sally forth from their usual comfort zones. He ponders a series of important nodes of debate while challenging us to examine what we know and why we know it. Most critically he presents an elegant argument for functions of mind that cannot be replaced with sentences about brains while acknowledging that mind emerges from ... Read more

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In this thought-provoking book, psychologist Jerome Kagan urges readers to sally forth from their usual comfort zones. He ponders a series of important nodes of debate while challenging us to examine what we know and why we know it. Most critically he presents an elegant argument for functions of mind that cannot be replaced with sentences about brains while acknowledging that mind emerges from
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Psychology's Ghosts

The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back

by Jerome Kagan ...

A leading psychologist takes a hard look at the state of his profession today, finds major flaws, and argues for specific changes in practices and attitudes. ... Read more

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A leading psychologist takes a hard look at the state of his profession today, finds major flaws, and argues for specific changes in practices and attitudes.
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Galen's Prophecy

Temperament In Human Nature

by Jerome Kagan ...

Nearly two thousand years ago a physician named Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behavior could be explained by an individual's temperament. Since that time, inborn dispositions have fallen in and out of favor. Based on fifteen years of research, Galen's Prophecy now provides fresh insights into these complex questions, offering startling new evidence to support ... Read more

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Nearly two thousand years ago a physician named Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behavior could be explained by an individual's temperament. Since that time, inborn dispositions have fallen in and out of favor. Based on fifteen years of research, Galen's Prophecy now provides fresh insights into these complex questions, offering startling new evidence to support
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The Long Shadow of Temperament

by Jerome Kagan, Nancy Snidman ...

We have seen these children—the shy and the sociable, the cautious and the daring—and wondered what makes one avoid new experience and another avidly pursue it. At the crux of the issue surrounding the contribution of nature to development is the study that Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have been conducting for more than two decades. In The Long Shadow of Temperament, Kagan and Nancy Snidman ... Read more

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We have seen these children—the shy and the sociable, the cautious and the daring—and wondered what makes one avoid new experience and another avidly pursue it. At the crux of the issue surrounding the contribution of nature to development is the study that Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have been conducting for more than two decades. In The Long Shadow of Temperament, Kagan and Nancy Snidman
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Trio Of Pursuits, A: Puzzles In Human Development

by Jerome Kagan ...

The culmination of almost seven decades of research, A Trio of Pursuits: Puzzles in Human Development is the magnum opus of the career of Dr. Jerome Kagan, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, USA. This book summarizes three of the author's major research themes during a career that spanned from 1954 to present: preservation of individual traits, maturation of cognition and ... Read more

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The culmination of almost seven decades of research, A Trio of Pursuits: Puzzles in Human Development is the magnum opus of the career of Dr. Jerome Kagan, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, USA. This book summarizes three of the author's major research themes during a career that spanned from 1954 to present: preservation of individual traits, maturation of cognition and
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Kinds Come First

Age, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Give Meaning to Measures

by Jerome Kagan ...

An argument that the meaning of a psychological or biological measure depends on the age, gender class, and ethnicity of the human subject.In Kinds Come First, the distinguished psychologist Jerome Kagan argues that—contrary to the common assumption—age, gender, social class, and ethnicity affect the outcomes of psychological measures, and he questions the popular practice that uses statistical ... Read more

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An argument that the meaning of a psychological or biological measure depends on the age, gender class, and ethnicity of the human subject.In Kinds Come First, the distinguished psychologist Jerome Kagan argues that—contrary to the common assumption—age, gender, social class, and ethnicity affect the outcomes of psychological measures, and he questions the popular practice that uses statistical
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The Human Spark

The Science of Human Development

by Jerome Kagan ...

As infants we are rife with potential. For a short time, we have before us a seemingly infinite number of developmental paths. Soon, however, we become limited to certain paths as we grow into unique products of our genetics and experience. But what factors account for the variation -- in skills, personalities, values -- that results? How do experiences shape what we bring into the world?In The ... Read more

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As infants we are rife with potential. For a short time, we have before us a seemingly infinite number of developmental paths. Soon, however, we become limited to certain paths as we grow into unique products of our genetics and experience. But what factors account for the variation -- in skills, personalities, values -- that results? How do experiences shape what we bring into the world?In The
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Five Constraints on Predicting Behavior

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A distinguished psychologist considers five conditions that constrain inferences about the relation between brain activity and psychological processes.Scientists were unable to study the relation of brain to mind until the invention of technologies that measured the brain activity accompanying psychological processes. Yet even with these new tools, conclusions are tentative or simply wrong. In ... Read more

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A distinguished psychologist considers five conditions that constrain inferences about the relation between brain activity and psychological processes.Scientists were unable to study the relation of brain to mind until the invention of technologies that measured the brain activity accompanying psychological processes. Yet even with these new tools, conclusions are tentative or simply wrong. In
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Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere

Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

by Lawrence Harrison, Evgeny Yasin, Oscar Árias Sánchez, Miguel Basáñez, Marita Carballo, Valery Chirkov, Oleg Chirkunov, Daniel Etounga-Manguelle, James Fox0, Mariano Grondona1, Geert Hofstede2, Ronald Inglehart3, Josef Joffe4, Jerome Kagan5, Irina Karatsuba6, Rob Kleinbaum7, Borris Knorre8, Andrei Konchalovsky9, Deepak Lal0, Nadezhda Lebedeva1, Vladimir Magun2, Matteo Marini3, Eric Maskin4, Richard Nisbett5, Douglass North6, Rachel Okunubi7, Fernando Reimers8, Maksim Rudnev9, Reese Schonfeld0, Shalom Schwartz1, Maria Snegovaya2, Guido Tabellini3, Katherine Taylor4, Natalya Tikhonova5, Pervez Hoodbhoy6, William Easterly7, Richard Lamm8, Tu Weiming9 ...

This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and ... Read more

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This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and
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A Young Mind in a Growing Brain

by Jerome Kagan, Norbert Herschkowitz ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Developing Cultures

Essays on Cultural Change

by Lawrence E. Harrison, Jerome Kagan ...

Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of a research project begun by Samuel Huntington and Larry Harrison in their widely discussed book Culture Matters the goal of which is guidelines for cultural change that can accelerate development in the ... Read more

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Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of a research project begun by Samuel Huntington and Larry Harrison in their widely discussed book Culture Matters the goal of which is guidelines for cultural change that can accelerate development in the
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