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Jerome Kagan

Born

in Newark, New Jersey, The United States

February 25, 1929

Died

May 10, 2021

Genre

Nonfiction, Psychology

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Jerome Kagan was an American psychologist, who was the Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, as well as, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He was one of the key pioneers of developmental psychology.
Kagan has shown that an infant's "temperament" is quite stable over time, in that certain behaviors in infancy are predictive of certain other behavior patterns in adolescence. He did extensive work on temperament and gave insight on emotion.
In 2001, he was listed in the Review of General Psychology among the one hundred most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century. After being evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively, Kagan was twenty-second on the list, just above Carl Jun ...more

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	The Temperamental Thread: How Genes, Culture, Time and Luck make Us Who We Are 3.98 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الثقافات الثلاث: العلوم الطبيعية والاجتماعية والإنسانيات في القرن الحادي والعشرين by Jerome Kagan, صديق محمد جوهر (Translator), جيروم كاجان 3.36 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development 3.83 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Galen's Prophecy: Temperament In Human Nature 4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1994 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psychology's Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Seductive Ideas 4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Being Human: Why Mind Matters 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Is Emotion?: History, Measures, and Meanings 3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Shadow of Temperament by Jerome Kagan, Nancy Snidman 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Argument for Mind 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Joy and serenity are not slavishly tied to our physiology. We are not programmed neurons over which we have no control. We are collaborators in the generation of our thoughts and emotions.”
― Jerome Kagan

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“الكبرياء الشخصي هو ما اختاره الفرد لنفسه من منظومة من المبادئ والقيم والتي يعتبرها ،فلسفيا، هي الأحكم والأنقى والأكثر منطقية عما سواها”
― Jerome Kagan, الثقافات الثلاث: العلوم الطبيعية والاجتماعية والإنسانيات في القرن الحادي والعشرين

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“حتى أكثر المجتمعات البشرية إيمانا بتحقيق المساواة بين البشر، هي أحوج ما تكون إلى أفراد يتحملون قسطا من المسؤولية إزاء نوائب الحياة، مسؤولية أخلاقية تحول بينهم وبين تحميل الآخرين أو القدر أوزار نوائب الحياة وبلاياها.”
― Jerome Kagan, الثقافات الثلاث: العلوم الطبيعية والاجتماعية والإنسانيات في القرن الحادي والعشرين

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