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	Nature vs Nurture in Child Development
		The wise king Solomon certainly supported the nurture assumption when he stated in Proverbs 22:6, “Train the child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” The famous French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, on the other hand, posited a natural development of the child.
		In fact, he wanted the child to be protected from the influences of society so that he can grow up as Nature intended him to be.
		This of course excludes natural body functions, such as breathing, as well as the reflexes, for example the involuntary closing of the eye when an object approaches it.
	www.audiblox2000.com /early_childhood/child_development.htm (1157 words)

	Nature VS Nurture - Theories of Personality in 21st Century - Psychology
		Nature vs Nurture theories have wasted a lot of energy of human beings.
		Nature VS Nurture Theories and Evolutionary Psychology - Darwin's theory of evolution led William Hamilton, George Williams and many others to the idea of personality evolution.
		Even fear of death, that seems natural to all, is overridden in crusades, suicides and suicide bombings.
	www.psychology.online-help-centre.com /57659.php (0 words)

	Online NewsHour: Nature vs. Nurture-- October 20 1998
		The nature vs. nurture debate has been reopened by a new book that says that peers and genes are more influential than parents in child development.
		JUDITH HARRIS, Author, "The Nurture Assumption:" It's the assumption that what makes children turn out the way they do, aside from their genes, the environmental part of child development, is the experiences they have at home, and in particular the experiences they have with their parents.
		She came up with something she calls "group socialization theory," the notion that children's peers, along with other groups that they might become involved in, are the factors in addition to genes that help to shape personality and behavior.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/health/july-dec98/naturenurture_10-20.html (0 words)

	Nature Versus Nurture - Genetics vs Junk Food
		The question of how large a role heredity plays in health is a vital one, since if health is determined primarily by genetics, then there isn't much point in improving an environment factor like nutrition.
		While it may be convenient to blame everything on ones heredity, I believe it's role is over stated, especially as relates to modern diseases like heart disease and obesity.
		When they do, their rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity all rise rapidly and dramatically, often within just 15 to 30 years.
	www.nutritioncrashcourse.com /nature-vs-nurture.html (247 words)

	Nature vs Nurture - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Nature vs. Nurture, theoretical debate over what portion of behavior or perception is learned and what portion an organism is born with.
		Scholars have long debated the relative importance of nature (hereditary influences) and nurture (environmental influences) in child development.
		Nature vs Nurture is a shorthand expression for debates about the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities (nature) versus personal experiences (nurture) in determining or causing...
	encarta.msn.com /Nature_vs_Nurture.html (320 words)

	Neuroscience Of Intelligence
		The ‘nature’ side of the debate argues for a hereditarian view of the phenomenon of intelligence: that a person maintains his mental ability solely based on what he is born with genetically.
		The "nature vs. nurture" debate still goes on, as now scientists fight over how much of human intelligence and other abilities are determined by genes and how much by the environment.
		Nurture controversy, it is important to mention the English scientist Francis Galton (1822 –1911), a cousin of Charles Darwin, who initiated this whole debate between hereditarians and environmentalists more than a century ago.
	www.macalester.edu /psychology/whathap/ubnrp/intelligence05/Rheredity.html (735 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Sunday \| Focus / Sibling rivalry
		The belief that it's simplistic to distinguish nature and nurture is itself simplistic.
		But the questions would never have come to light if researchers had not first taken measures to factor out the influence of nature, by showing that correlations between parents and children cannot glibly be attributed to parenting but might be attributable to shared genes.
		No doubt many hypotheses that pit nature against nurture as a dichotomy, or that fail to distinguish the ways in which they might interact, will turn out to be simplistic or wrong.
	pinker.wjh.harvard.edu /articles/media/2002_10_13_bostonglobe.html (2535 words)

	Nature vs Nurture in Intelligence
		An underresearched area, while the nature vs. nurture debate has raged, is the contribution of interactions between genetics and environment on IQ variance.
		In the overfocus on nature vs. nurture issues, the attempts to estimate the relative contribution rests on the somewhat naive notion that there is a constant, true value.
		Thus, a future area for research which blends those in the nature camps with those in the nurture camps would be examine which environmental components allow people to optimally realise their genetic potentials for a variety of areas of cognitive performance (e.g.
	www.wilderdom.com /personality/L4-1IntelligenceNatureVsNurture.html (4630 words)

	The Heart of the Matter: Terrorism: Nature vs Nurture
		If you're a "nature" proponent, don't try to wriggle out of the experiment by saying "there would be no benefit." Maybe not, but if you believe our actions can't fuel terrorism, you have to accept that there would be no cost, either.
		I think part of the reason the nature crowd tends toward a "we can't make terrorism worse" line of argument is because suggesting that we have some influence over terrorism sounds close to suggesting that we're responsible for it.
		To me, an interesting component is that, in nature vs nurture, perhaps the most significant quality of ones nature that makes it supercede nurture is the concept of free will or empowerment.
	www.barryeisler.com /2006/09/terrorism-nature-vs-nurture.html (3594 words)

	THE GREAT NATURE-NURTURE DEBATE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But the word natural in the sense that I have just been using it has nothing to do with morality, and it is the moral sense in which Paul uses natural in Romans 1.
		Natural may refer to something that happens repeatedly in nature -- that is, in the world -- in which case we assign no moral judgment to it.
		The upshot is that in the case of both male and female homosexuals, the problem of nurture may involve a difficulty in reconciliation with maleness.
	home.messiah.edu /~chase/h/articles/schmidt (10022 words)

	Nature vs. Nurture - The Mystery Gene
		However, when the adoptive person rebels, refusing to accept the definition of themselves or their mother as Bad, it is clear to all that Nature has licked Nurture and the long battle for Decency has been lost.
		But the most reliable way to identify the Mystery Gene is when the adopted child, now grown into a lanky adult - or a short one - who may not resemble his or her adopters, brings home the unwanted news of an unexpected and unplanned pregnancy.
		Nothing to do with Nurture, especially the adopters lack of responsibility in failing to provide adequate education regarding fertility, as one might expect them to do as a parenting duty.
	www.exiledmothers.com /voices_from_exile/may2003.html (1434 words)

	Mental Health - Nature vs. nurture: does biology or environment influence development?
		The nature vs. nurture debate revolves around the following question: what factors contribute to the mental development of an individual: nature (that is, the biological or genetic makeup of a person) or nurture (that is, how a person is raised, by whom, and in what environment)?
		Some infants are naturally "easy babies," with positive dispositions and who adapt and adjust easily, while other infants are categorized as "difficult babies" who are moody and easily irritated.
		These individuals are not overly afraid of failure; they realize that failure is a natural part of life and whether they fail or succeed at something does not indicate their overall worth and ability as a person.
	www.faqs.org /health/Healthy-Living-V3/Mental-Health.html (8289 words)

	Nurture vs Nature- SearchMothers
		Nature vs Nurture theories have wasted a lot of energy by mothers.
		Nature vs Nurture theories focus upon these issues.
		Even fear of death, that seems natural to all, is overridden in crusades, suicides and suicide bombings.
	www.searchmothers.com /features/feature_nurturevsnature.php (885 words)

	Nature vs. Nurture vs. Judaism
		However, it is clear that Judaism strongly emphasizes the Nurture side of the debate, as is illustrated by Judaism's emphasis on the education of children and the importance of living in a good environment.
		Whether the primary cause of human behavior is Nature or Nurture, the end result, according to these thinkers, is that human behavior is caused by external influences, not by the free decision of the individual.
		In summation, while Judaism does recognize the significance of both Nature and Nurture, the underlying premises of the Nature vs. Nurture debate as expressed by secular thinkers are not acceptable within a Jewish framework.
	members.aol.com /LazerA/archive/naturevsnurture.html (1193 words)

	RPG System Design: Nature vs Nurture in RPG's
		Game mechanics imply an answer for nature vs nurture in the relationship between attributes and skills.
		The idea is to simplify the issue by eliminating the divide between nature stats and nurture stats.
		The nature-vs-nurture question can then be changed into two parallel ratings: natural aptitude in a skill group, and effective level in that skill group.
	www.darkshire.net /~jhkim/rpg/systemdesign/naturenurture.html (1071 words)

	In Nature vs. Nurture, a Voice for Nature
		In his book he reproaches those who in his view have politicized the study of human nature from both the left and the right, though in practice more of his fire is directed against the left, particularly the critics of sociobiology.
		Following in part the economist Thomas Sowell, he distinguishes between a leftist utopian vision of human nature (the mind is a blank slate, man is a Noble Savage, traditional institutions are the problem) and the tragic vision preferred by the right (man is the problem; family, creed and Adam Smith's Invisible Hand are the solutions).
		To the contrary, a good political system "should mobilize some parts of human nature to rein in other parts." The framers of the Constitution took great interest in human nature and "by almost any measure of human well-being, Western democracies are better," he says.
	www.racematters.org /naturevsnurturesaynature.htm (1489 words)

	Nature vs Nurture in Sports
		The nature versus nurture issue of sport is very controversial.
		If a child is nurtured into a sport at a young age, the child will be more successful in the sport as an adult because they have been playing longer and will have more experience.
		Nurture performs a bigger role in becoming a great athlete than nature does because there are many external factors.
	www.expertfootball.com /training/naturevsnurture.php (1778 words)

	Nature VS Nurture.. \| Progressive U
		MY instinct tells me it must be more of a nurture thing, the way you are raised affects how you turn out.
		nurture debate quite a bit in criminology and psychology classes and nothing in any of those classes has led me to believe that it is more nature than nurture or more nurture than nature.
		Some of the studies that have been done, in which twins were raised in different environments and still had very similar beliefs, attitudes, etc, would indicate nature is the driving force.
	www.progressiveu.org /064404-nature-vs-nurture (806 words)

	vPhysics.com: Nature VS Nurture - Theories of Personality in 21st Century
		Nature vs Nurture theories have wasted a lot of energy of human beings.
		Nature VS Nurture Theories and PhysicsThe discoveries in physics have always provided new meat to the nature vs nurture theories.
		What would happen if Hitler had died in his young age of cancer, which can occur with a slight genetic mutation?Nature VS Nurture Theories and Reality?hat was the first cause??Aristotle had asked centuries beforeIt has been proved that the universe is not result of infinite series of collaborating causes and events.
	vphysics.com /News/83369-Nature-VS-Nurture---Theories-of-Personality-in-21st-Century.asp (1021 words)

	Nature vs. Nurture: Can't We All Just Get Along?
		The nature vs. nurture debate, long contested by philosophers and scientists alike, is of special interest to those charged with the responsibility of raising kids in a complicated, ever-changing world.
		While today's mothers and fathers must navigate the same child-rearing seas as their own parents did, they must also contend with the wide range of conflicting theory and advice recently generated by this volatile issue.
		Hamer writes about the difference between temperament (what we're born with) and character (our flexibility and control over our nature), adding that many undesirable qualities of temperament may be controlled by building character.
	human-nature.com /books/lightner.html (702 words)

	Greg Mankiw's Blog: Nature vs Nurture
		In both papers, nature is stronger than nurture for determining the educational attainment of adopted children, although both nature and nurture have some role.
		Essentially, nature is generally more important than nurture, however, in extreme social environments, nurture could be stronger.
		Studies that attempt to divide neatly into nature and nurture are problematic because they ignore the very large interaction term.
	gregmankiw.blogspot.com /2006/07/nature-vs-nurture.html (1877 words)

	Nature vs. nurture divides academia - The Boston Globe
		Nature vs. nurture divides academia - The Boston Globe
		Academia has been bitterly divided by the nature vs. nurture debate, and the Harvard president's comments last month at a National Bureau of Economic Research symposium touched on aspects that are so controversial that the opposing sides almost never discuss them.
		On one side are those who believe the sexes are equal enough in their intellectual abilities that any biological difference is vastly outweighed by social pressures and discrimination that discourage girls and women from pursuing science and engineering.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/02/28/nature_vs_nurture_divides_academia (734 words)

	News in Science - Snakes challenge nature vs nurture debate - 17/09/2004
		A study of how the size of snakes' heads change in response to the size of their prey has cast new light on the nature versus nurture debate.
		Research published in the latest issue of the journal Nature described a study of two separate populations of tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus).
		"Natural selection is actually able to make you plastic in ways that are likely to help you change in adaptive ways if you encounter unpredictable situations later on."
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1198091.htm (421 words)

	Geography 101 and Trans Folk Nature vs Nurture: Transsexuals, Transgendered
		Its because what's happening is a natural thing spread evenly through the population because Nature has no boundaries.
		Nature is the reason we exist as Transfolk.
		As a natural phenomenon we should be treated the same as any other natural man or woman in our Natural world.
	www.lauras-playground.com /nature_nurture.htm (443 words)

	nature vs. nurture - WELS.net
		I am interested in the nature vs. nurture debate, and I have not been convinced that either can ever be applied universally.
		This preacher, however, seems to proclaim that human nature is definitive in all human behavior.
		Bad nurture does not create the bad nature but can shape or even intensify expressions of that nature.
	www.wels.net /cgi-bin/site.pl?1518&cuTopic_topicID=26&cuItem_itemID=9764 (394 words)

	Dean's World - The "Nature vs. Nurture" Debate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most amazingly wonderful thing about becoming a father, to me, was realizing that the entire "nature vs. nurture" debate was rather stupid.
		Yet they're so different, and the contrast between their natural inclinations is so profound, that there's a lot to learn in how they do influence each other.
		The wiry one is the dominant twin, and the teddy bear clearly departs from his natural inclinations to be like his brother and do what he does.
	www.deanesmay.com /posts/1149568918.shtml (2128 words)

	: Nature vs. Nurture: Feral Children
		The Nature vs. Nurture debate has always been a hot topic among psychologists, and remains infinitely debatable to this day.
		I agree with the idea of both nature and nurture shaped us as who we are, but I think the most controversial idea is which one has more influence upon our personal traits and emotions.
		It was some what similar to the "Nature vs. Nurture" topic, because just like what we have discussed, we don't know whether the a baby is born and destinied to be "evil" or "good".
	virtualatdp.berkeley.edu:8081 /appsych/discussions/1 (1512 words)

	Nature Vs. Nurture (Waking the Giant) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		People have been brainwashed into thinking that male aggression or territorial behavior of men is nurture, ie, learned in the environment, so it can be unlearned or learned differently.
		The theory was that since we give dolls to girls and trucks to boys, that they become stereotypical or nurturing vs. aggressive because of socialization.
		According to that book, nearly all behavior is caused by nurture and nature plays a small, if any role in determining your behavior.
	www.wakingthegiant.us /2007/02/nature_vs_nurture.php (408 words)

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