For centuries, people have drawn a line between nature and nurture. In the 19th century, English polymath Francis Galton cast nature-versus-nurture in scientific terms. He envisioned a battle between ...

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 ...

Are we born or made this way? Short answer: It's both. Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Are we born with our personality characteristics, or do we become who we are because of the world around us? The ...

Is it nature or is it nurture, heredity or society? In that great debate of our time, conservatives lean toward the former and liberals toward the latter. I believe both are asking the wrong question.

Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton ...

Blame it on your parents (nature). Blame it on your friends (nurture). But, in truth, you can probably blame your personality on both. Is the development of human personalities the result of inherited ...

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 ...

This summer, the Coos Watershed Association (CoosWA) offered a “Nature and Nurture” event series that emphasized the scientifically backed connection between human health and environmental health. We ...

How are smiley-face fireworks made? Nurture Nature Center explains how. Nurture Nature Center’s docent Jeff Mucklin explains how a smiley face fireworks is made with different chemicals that burn ...