quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

eugenics and white supremacism. By
contrast, the notion of children as blank
slates for whom anything was possible
appealed to a nation built on
democracy.
But Kagan had changed his mind
along the way. “I have been dragged,
kicking and screaming, by my data,” he
says now, “to acknowledge that temperament
is more powerful than I
thought and wish to believe.” The publication
of his early findings on high-reactive
children in Science magazine in
1988 helped to legitimize the idea of
inborn temperament, partly because his
“nurturist” reputation was so strong.
If anyone could help me untangle the
nature-nurture question, I hoped, it was
Jerry Kagan.
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