[2] Born in Brooklyn in 1938,[3] Harris spent her early childhood moving around the United States until her parents eventually settled in Tucson, Arizona.
In the late 1970s, Harris developed a mathematical model of visual information processing which formed the basis for two articles in the journal Perception and Psychophysics (1979, 1984).
[8] George A. Miller was chair of the Department of Psychology at Harvard in 1960, when Harris was dismissed from that Ph.D. program (see above)[5][6] Is it dangerous to claim that parents have no power at all (other than genetic) to shape their child's personality, intelligence, or the way he or she behaves outside the family home?
She also points out that correlations between parent and child personalities may result as easily from child-to-parent effects as the reverse.
[12] The book looks to influences outside the home as the primary socializing agents of children, with peers being particularly important in personality development.
Harris argues that children identify with their classmates and playmates rather than their parents and other adults, and that personality is formed both through efforts to fit in with the group or to compete with specific others.
[3][13] She proposes that three distinct systems shape personality: No Two Alike expands on some of the ideas from The Nurture Assumption and attempts to answer some of the criticisms leveled at the former book.