Nurture is a learned response. This statement is constantly up for debate. Are we born with a sense of care and consideration ...

Care, encouragement and support are given to someone or something while growing, and studies seem to show that nurture is more important than nature in shaping a child’s character. Nature is a proper ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who ...

The question of whether human behavior is driven by innate biological forces or the product of our learning and environment has been a popular discussion at cocktail parties and scientific conferences ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or ...

Richard Overy is an accomplished British historian of World War II. His “Why War?” is a brisk and wide-ranging survey of the academic literature since Einstein wrote to Freud. Mr. Overy explains our ...