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The Myth of the Maternal Instinct
William McDougall was an early psychologist who wrote maternal instinct and a scientific theory. His book, An Introduction to Social Psychology is still the most successful British authored psychology book ever published. He said that the more you educate a woman, the more her maternal instinct will decline. So it wasn't more powerful than education in his view.