Rule of Nine: Qualifications for the Federal Bench
Legal scholars are asked to comment on qualifications and characteristics they think are important for nominees to the federal bench. Douglas Kmiec favors nominees who are "learned in the law and...capable, based on experience and temperament and in...
Nature vs. Nurture (Part One)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, takes a fresh look at the nature vs. nurture controversy. Dr. Hamer contends that personality consists of two different components: temperament and char...
The Growing Years: Social Development and Attachment
From the moment of birth, children are social creatures. Infants in all cultures develop an intense bond with their caregivers, a bond researchers call attachment. The experiences children have in the first years of life shape their sense of themsel...
Codes of Life: Temperament Studies
areas in which researchers find temperamental biases: reaction to things that are new or unfamiliar, level of activity, and the ability to regulate
Transcript: the behavioral style. Not so much what we're doing, but how we're doing it. And these kinds of temperamental styles do seem To be genetically influenced