Background
Richard Herrnstein was born on May 20, 1930 in New York City, in the family of Rezso and Flora Irene (Friedman) Herrnstein.
(Assembling the latest evidence from the fields of sociolo...)
Assembling the latest evidence from the fields of sociology, criminology, economics, medicine, biology, and psychology and exploring the effects of such factors as gender, age, race, and family, two eminent social scientists frame a groundbreaking theoryof criminal behavior.
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1985
(The controversial book linking intelligence to class and ...)
The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty.
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1994
Richard Herrnstein was born on May 20, 1930 in New York City, in the family of Rezso and Flora Irene (Friedman) Herrnstein.
Herrnstein received B.A. at City College of New York, and Ph.D. at Harvard University.
Richard was one of the founders of quantitative analysis of behavior. His major research finding as an experimental psychologist is called "matching law"—the tendency of animals to allocate their choices in direct proportion to the rewards they provide. He also developed melioration theory with William Vaughan, Jr. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of psychology at Harvard University and worked with B. F. Skinner in the Harvard pigeon lab, where he did research on choice behavior and behavioral economics.
In 1965, and with Edwin Boring, Herrnstein authored A Source Book in the History of Psychology. Herrnstein's research focused first on natural concepts and human intelligence in the 1970s, and peaked in prolificacy with the publication of his and Charles Murray's controversial best-selling book, The Bell Curve.
(Assembling the latest evidence from the fields of sociolo...)
1985(The controversial book linking intelligence to class and ...)
1994Herrnstein had joined those who countered the mainstream focus on environmental influences to human behavior. In articles and books, he had argued that because heredity was behind much of human nature, much of the public policy designed to overcome social ills was misguided. His views had prompted some to label him racist and classist; others had hailed him for his straight talk about important social issues that political correctness had tried to silence.
Quotations: Greater wealth, health, freedom, fairness, and educational opportunity [in our society], are not going to give us the egalitarian society of our philosophical heritage. It will instead give us a society sharply graduated, with ever greater separation between the top and the bottom, and ever more uniformity within families as far as inherited abilities are concerned.
On May 28, 1951, Richard married Barbara Brodo, but they divorced in 1961(they had one child Julia). Then on November 11, 1961 he married Susan Chalk Gouinlock. They gave birth to Max Gouinlock and James Rezso.