Judith Rich Harris. The Miss Marple of Developmental Psychology

E. Wesseling

doi:10.1017/S0269889704000146

Judith Rich Harris. The Miss Marple of Developmental Psychology

E. Wesseling^*

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Abstract

This paper contributes to inquiries into scientific personae by employing a rhetorical approach. It analyzes the persuasive strategies of Judith Rich Harris in The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (1998). Rhetorical analysis of Harris' self-fashioning in this remarkable best-seller and the reactions of the press to her persona demonstrates the resilience of specific archaic cultural repertoires for constructing scientific identities. While historical studies investigate how repertoires for scientific self-fashioning evolve through time, rhetoric reveals how identity models from an earlier age may be appropriated in the present.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	293-314
Journal	Science in Context
Volume	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269889704000146
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2004

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