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- catalog abstract "Nearly two thousand years ago a physician called Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behavior could be explained by an individual's temperament. Since that time, ideas about inborn dispositions have fallen in and out of favor. Based on fifteen years of research, Galen's Prophecy now provides fresh insights into these complex questions, offering startling new evidence to support Galen's ancient classification of melancholic and sanguine adults. Two of the most obvious personality traits in children, as well as adults, are a cautious compared with a spontaneous approach to new people and situations. About 20 percent of healthy infants born to loving families come into the world with a physiology that renders them easily aroused by new experiences and, when aroused, to become distressed. A majority of these high-reactive infants become fearful, cautious children. A larger group, about 40 percent of infants, are born with a different physiology that leads them to be more difficult to arouse, but when excited they babble and smile rather than cry. Most of these low-reactive infants become sociable, spontaneous, relatively fearless children. Galen's Prophecy suggests that each of us inherits a physiology that can affect our moods, leaving some adults dour and tense and others content and relaxed. Integrating evidence and ideas from biology, philosophy, and psychology, Jerome Kagan examines the implications of the idea of temperament for aggressive behavior, conscience, psychopathology, and the degree to which each of us can be expected to control our deepest emotions.".
- catalog contributor b5455606.
- catalog contributor b5455607.
- catalog contributor b5455608.
- catalog contributor b5455609.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-361) and index.".
- catalog description "Nearly two thousand years ago a physician called Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behavior could be explained by an individual's temperament. Since that time, ideas about inborn dispositions have fallen in and out of favor. Based on fifteen years of research, Galen's Prophecy now provides fresh insights into these complex questions, offering startling new evidence to support Galen's ancient classification of melancholic and sanguine adults. Two of the most obvious personality traits in children, as well as adults, are a cautious compared with a spontaneous approach to new people and situations. About 20 percent of healthy infants born to loving families come into the world with a physiology that renders them easily aroused by new experiences and, when aroused, to become distressed. A majority of these high-reactive infants become fearful, cautious children. A larger group, about 40 percent of infants, are born with a different physiology that leads them to be more difficult to arouse, but when excited they babble and smile rather than cry. Most of these low-reactive infants become sociable, spontaneous, relatively fearless children. Galen's Prophecy suggests that each of us inherits a physiology that can affect our moods, leaving some adults dour and tense and others content and relaxed. Integrating evidence and ideas from biology, philosophy, and psychology, Jerome Kagan examines the implications of the idea of temperament for aggressive behavior, conscience, psychopathology, and the degree to which each of us can be expected to control our deepest emotions.".
- catalog description "The idea of temperament : the past -- What is temperament? -- The family of fears -- The beginnings -- The physiology of inhibited and uninhibited children -- Early predictors of the two types -- Infant reactivity and sympathetic physiology -- Implications -- Reflections.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 376 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Galen's prophecy.".
- catalog identifier "0465084052".
- catalog isFormatOf "Galen's prophecy.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : BasicBooks,".
- catalog relation "Galen's prophecy.".
- catalog subject "155.2/6 20".
- catalog subject "1994 E-848".
- catalog subject "BF 723.T53 K11g 1994".
- catalog subject "BF723.T53 K34 1994".
- catalog subject "Child.".
- catalog subject "Children and the environment.".
- catalog subject "Infant.".
- catalog subject "Inhibition (Psychology)".
- catalog subject "Inhibition in children Physiological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Inhibition in children.".
- catalog subject "Nature and nurture.".
- catalog subject "Social Environment.".
- catalog subject "Temperament in children Physiological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Temperament in children.".
- catalog subject "Temperament physiology.".
- catalog subject "Temperament.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The idea of temperament : the past -- What is temperament? -- The family of fears -- The beginnings -- The physiology of inhibited and uninhibited children -- Early predictors of the two types -- Infant reactivity and sympathetic physiology -- Implications -- Reflections.".
- catalog title "Galen's prophecy : temperament in human nature / by Jerome Kagan with the collaboration of Nancy Snidman, Doreen Arcus, J. Steven Reznick.".
- catalog type "text".