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his subjects from <strong>in</strong>fancy <strong>in</strong>to adolescence,but Schwartz wanted to see whathappened to them after that. Would thefootpr<strong>in</strong>t <strong>of</strong> temperament be detectable,all those years later, <strong>in</strong> the adult bra<strong>in</strong>s<strong>of</strong> Kagan’s high- and low-reactive <strong>in</strong>fants?Or would it have been erased bysome <strong>com</strong>b<strong>in</strong>ation <strong>of</strong> environment andconscious effort?Interest<strong>in</strong>gly, Kagan cautionedSchwartz aga<strong>in</strong>st do<strong>in</strong>g the study. Inthe <strong>com</strong>petitive field <strong>of</strong> science research,you don’t want to waste timeconduct<strong>in</strong>g studies that may not yieldsignificant f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs. And Kagan worriedthat there were no results to befound—that the l<strong>in</strong>k between temperamentand dest<strong>in</strong>y would be severed bythe time an <strong>in</strong>fant reached adulthood.“He was try<strong>in</strong>g to take care <strong>of</strong> me,”Schwartz tells me. “It was an <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>gparadox. Because here Jerry was338/929

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