Transgenerational influences on the development of early prodigious behavior: A case study approach

Abstract

In seeking early influences on the development of competence, researchers have typically been limited to one or two generations. Based on evidence from a case study of early prodigious achievement, it appears that "transgenerational" influences over several generations may also be at work. Such influences are not genetic and may be conscious or unconscious. Transgenerational Influences on the Development of Early Prodigious Behavior: A Case Study Approach David Henry Feldman, Lynn T. GoldsmithAlthough developmental psychology is the most comprehensive of the branches of psychology, it nonetheless has had some dificulty achieving the long-term time perspective that one might expect. Studies examining the impact of parental styles and family characteristics on the growing child have been common (Clarke-Stewart, 1973;Hess and Shipman, 1965; Yarrow, 196.3), but studies attempting to put the life-span in long-range ~~ Much of this chapter was presented at a conference at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University on March 11, 1985. The participants in that conference were very helpful, especially Rochel

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