Jay Belsky, Author, John Kelly, With Delacorte Press $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-30616-4
For seven years in the 1980s, Belsky, professor of human development at Penn State University, studied the impact of new parenthood on 250 couples from about three months before birth to the child's third birthday. Aided by freelance writer Kelly,...
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Jay Belsky et al. Harvard Univ., $35 (400p) ISBN 978-0-674-98345-8
A group of psychologists explore fundamental questions about human development, while also introducing a lesser-known research approach, in this cogent work. Using landmark studies that tracked large groups of people from birth—one, ongoing since...
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Jay Belsky. Harvard Univ, $35 (240p) ISBN 978-0-6742-9719-7
Belsky (The Origins of You), a professor of human development at University of California-Davis, draws on evolutionary biology for this uneven exploration of how adverse upbringings affect development. Kids who experience poverty, abuse, and...
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