Jerome Kagan, Author . Yale Univ. $27.50 (287p) ISBN 978-0-300-11337-2
A career in science resembles the psychological development of a person," writes Kagan, a distinguished psychology professor emeritus at Harvard. "A small number of early assumptions are preserved for a lifetime, a larger number are rejected,
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Jerome Kagan, Author Basic Books $27 (376p) ISBN 978-0-465-08405-0
Harvard cognitive psychologist Kagan adds a new twist to the nature-nurture controversy in this challenging academic study. Second-century Greek physician Galen posited innate, distinct human temperaments--melancholy, sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic--
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Jerome Kagan, Author Basic Books $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-465-02612-8
Harvard professor Kagan supports ancient Greek physician Galen's theory that temperamental tendencies in humans are innate, and interprets their possible effects. (June)
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Jerome Kagan. Basic, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-02982-2
As developmental psychologist Kagan (The Nature of the Child) so astutely points out, a great deal of what we “know” about human development isn’t firmly anchored in empirical science. He aims to correct that by encouraging readers to question...
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Jerome Kagan. Yale Univ, $35 (320p) ISBN 978-0-300-21736-0
Inspired by the essays of Michel de Montaigne, Kagan (Human Spark), emeritus professor of psychology at Harvard, forays into epistemology, semantics, human nature, and cultural relativism as he defends the idea that certain features of mind—feeling,
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