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Peer reviewedFalmagne, Rachel Joffe – Human Development, 1998
Reviews Jessor, Colby, and Shweder's "Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry." Maintains that the book invites reflection on the appropriate epistemology of contemporary social sciences, and significantly advances the integration of ethnography and developmental psychology research. Argues that concerns…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Context Effect, Developmental Psychology, Epistemology
Direct linkRichardson, Ken; Norgate, Sarah H. – Human Development, 2006
The pattern of parent-child correlations in adoption studies has long been interpreted to suggest substantial additive genetic variance underlying variance in IQ. The studies have frequently been criticized on methodological grounds, but those criticisms have not reflected recent perspectives in genetics and developmental theory. Here we apply…
Descriptors: Criticism, Intelligence Quotient, Genetics, Adoption
