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Was some of these babies nurtured with love and others who weren't nurtured and loved to prove his point?

I once heard that he experimented with babies by having some of the babies cared for in the way a mother would care for her baby; and some of the babies would not be held and cared for like a mother would care for her baby. Is this true?

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1. who is "he"

2 points ftw

2. The nature versus nurture debates concern the relative importance of an individuals innate qualities ("nature", i.e. nativism, or philosophical empiricism, innatism) versus personal experiences ("nurture") in determining or causing individual differences in physical and behavioral traits. The view that humans acquire all or almost all their behavioral traits from "nurture" is known as tabula rasa ("blank slate"). This question was once considered to be an appropriate division of developmental influences, but since both types of factors are known to play such interacting roles in development, many modern psychologists consider the question naive - representing an outdated state of knowledge. The famous psychologist Donald Hebb is said to have once answered a journalist's question of "which, nature or nurture, contributes more to personality?" by asking in response, "which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, its length or its width? For a discussion of nature versus nurture in language and other human universals, see also psychological nativism.
In her Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Nurture Assumption, author Judith Harris argues that "nurture," as traditionally defined in terms of family upbringing does not effectively explain the variance for most traits (such as adult IQ and the Big Five personality traits) in the general population of the United States. On the contrary, Harris suggests that either peer groups or random environmental factors (i.e., those that are independent of family upbringing) are more important than family environmental effects
Although "nurture" has historically been referred to as the care given to children by the parents, with the mother playing a role of particular importance, this term is now regarded by some as any environmental (not genetic) factor in the contemporary nature versus nurture debate. Thus the definition of "nurture" has been expanded in order to include the influences on development arising from prenatal, parental, extended family and peer experiences, extending to influences such as media, marketing and socio-economic status. Indeed, a substantial source of environmental input to human nature may arise from stochastic variations in prenatal development.
Harlan’s Lane's study on children raised in a non-nurturing environment showed that children in non-nurturing environment had a harder time adjusting and "fitting into social structures"
Traditionally, human nature has been thought of as not only inherited but divinely ordained. The differences between men and women, for example, were attributed to God's design. Whole ethnic groups were considered to be, by nature, superior or inferior. In the 19th and 20th centuries, however, intellectuals increasingly attributed differences among races, classes, and genders to socialization (nurture), rather than to innate qualities (nature). In the 20th century, the Nazis pursued an agenda based on the concept of human nature as defined by one's race. The Communists, on the other hand, largely followed Marx's lead in defining the human identity as subject to social structures, not nature. In scientific circles, this conflict led to ongoing controversy of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. But there are no definite in this sector of psychology because two major factors which one cannot gauge is environment and social upbringing outside the home. These factors made it hard for one side or the other in the nature/nurture area to be right. But this area of study is now psychology. But hundreds of years ago it was philosophy. Studied by two famous philosophers Jean Rousseau and John Locke, so the debate has been going on for some time. But babies, twins, rats, chimpanzees, and more have been used in this area of study.