Title The Long Shadow of Temperament

Published Cambridge : Harvard University Press

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations Contents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Overview -- 2. The Tapestries of Temperament -- 3. Biological Responses to Unfamiliarity -- 4. Behavioral and Biological Assessments -- 5. Integrating Behavior and Biology -- 6. Implications -- References -- Index Summary Annotation 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. InThe Long Shadow of Temperament, Kagan and Nancy Snidman summarize the results of this unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal studies in developmental psychology. These results reveal how deeply certain fundamental temperamental biases can be preserved over development. Identifying two extreme temperamental types--inhibited and uninhibited in childhood, and high-reactive and low-reactive in very young babies--Kagan and his colleagues returned to these children as adolescents. Surprisingly, one of the temperaments revealed in infancy predicted a cautious, fearful personality in early childhood and a dour mood in adolescence. The other bias predicted a bold childhood personality and an exuberant, sanguine mood in adolescence. These personalities were matched by different biological properties. In a masterly summary of their wide-ranging exploration, Kagan and Snidman conclude that these two temperaments are the result of inherited biologies probably rooted in the differential excitability of particular brain structures. Though the authors appreciate that temperamental tendencies can be modified by experience, this compelling work--an empirical and conceptual tour-de-force--shows how long the shadow of temperament is cast over psychological development Audience Trade Harvard University Press Subject Temperament in children -- Longitudinal studies Inhibition in children -- Longitudinal studies Temperament -- Longitudinal studies Inhibition -- Longitudinal studies Nature and nurture -- Longitudinal studies PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent. Inhibition Inhibition in children Nature and nurture Temperament Temperament in children Genre/Form Longitudinal studies Form Electronic book Author Snidman, Nancy ISBN 9780674032330 0674032330 9780674039261 0674039262

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