The Nurture Effect Book Trailer

[close] This is a book trailer for The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives & Our World

Author: Anthony Biglan
Book: The Nurture Effect
Publication Date: March 1, 2015

A forward-thinking behavioral scientist reveals the key to raising better young citizens and building a healthier society.

A glance through the news headlines today is rarely encouraging.

Schools are failing. The wealth and achievement gaps are increasing. Once-great American cities are decaying. Our mental and physical health—and the healthcare system that supposedly exists to support them—appear to be on shakier ground than ever.

And this just scratches the surface when it comes to the sources of fear, stress, and despair in modern life. Worse still, it seems as though attempts to address them leads to scattershot policymaking that provides temporary solutions without striking at the root causes.

What are we doing wrong?

What if there were a simple answer to this question… a sin