According to Harris, parents have a strong influence on the their children's
characteristics and behavior in the home; on their values, beliefs, and habits
of various sorts; on their peer environments as you mention, which would mean
that they have an indirect influence on socialization. She also repeatedly
affirms that the relationship between parent and child itself "matters",
regardless of its effect on socialization or personality.
Paul
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From: Marie Helweg-Larsen
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 10:46 AM
Subject: [tips] Re: Stopping smoking
I have read her books. They are good reads. And (without a rereading) I would
stick by my description of her thesis as "parents don't matter except by
passing on their genes" (and possibly creating positive peer environments for
their children).
Marie
Paul Okami wrote:
Judith Harris does not argue that "parents don't matter." Why do people
keep saying this? All it takes is a read. Her books are good reads, by the
way.
Paul Okami
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From: Marie Helweg-Larsen
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:01 AM
Subject: [tips] Re: Stopping smoking
Yes, Judith Harris argues that parents don't matter (as she always does)
except by passing on their genes. However, tons of research show that the more
adult smokers a child is exposed to the more likely it is that she smokes (not
just genetically related adults). Kids themselves also say that they are
influenced by what their parents say about smoking (the point: children
interpret no anti-smoking messages or ambiguous anti-smoking messages as
implicit consent/support for smoking).
Crawford, M. A. (2001). Cigarette smoking and adolescents: Messages they
see and hear. Public Health Reports, 116, 203-215.
I do find it humorous (in a weird way) that we assign the task of
designing/implementing anti-smoking campaigns to the tobacco industry. And they
don't do a good job -- I'm shocked!!!
Marie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The NY Times has an interesting editorial (Nov, 27/06, "When don't smoke
means do") on research on the effectiveness of tobacco company
advertising to get kids to stop smoking (big surprise: it's not).
It's at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/opinion/27mon1.html
(you may need to register (free) to see it)
A bonus is that one of our favourite gadflies takes exception to an
observation (and implied suggestion) of the editorial writer, namely that
"Somehow the company [Philip Morris] forgot to tell the parents, as role
models, to stop smoking themselves".
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/opinion/l03smoke.html
Stephen
(Say, did anyone notice that we now have a university professor, Stephane
Dion, as the new leader of our traditional ruling party, the Liberals
(he taught political science at the Universite de Montreal)? The front-
running candidate he defeated was also a university professor, at some
other school called Harvard. Do you suppose this trend to politician
profs could catch on elsewhere, say, for example, in the Excited States?
Over lawyers, movie stars, and whatever it was that George Bush was?)
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