Terrie E. Moffitt

A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year "Brings the groundbreaking research of the top developmental psychologists of the past quarter-century to a wider audience. A masterpiece!" - Dante Cicchetti, Institute for Child Development at the University of Minnesota "Deliver[s] a flood of insights around the book's central question: To what degree do our childhood personalities and behaviours predict our adult...

A Marginal Revolution Best Book of the Year After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world's preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how humans develop. Does temperament in childhood predict adult personality? What role do parents play in shaping how a child matures? Is day care bad—or good—for children? Does...