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Stephanie Estrera; Hope Sparks Lancaster; Sara A. Hart – Grantee Submission, 2023
This paper examines the genetic ("nature") and environmental ("nurture") influences on why students vary in their reading skills. We review core findings from the field of modern behavioral genetics, a discipline that studies the interplay of genetic and environmental influences, on reading science. Additionally, we provide an…
Descriptors: Genetics, Reading Skills, Nature Nurture Controversy, Skill Development
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Anreiter, Ina; Sokolowski, H. Moriah; Sokolowski, Marla B. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2018
Individuals of the same species display remarkable variation in behavior, even in identical contexts. Increasing complexity in behavioral phenotypes brings with it an increase in individual variation in the manifestation of those phenotypes, and human behavior undoubtedly stands at the pinnacle of complexity. In this article, we discuss current…
Descriptors: Genetics, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Environmental Influences
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Cressey, Helen; Oliver, Chris; Crawford, Hayley; Waite, Jane – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Background: There is limited research into the nature and aetiology of temper outbursts in people with intellectual disabilities. In this study, we describe the phenomenology and environmental context of temper outbursts in Lowe syndrome, a rare genetic syndrome in which outbursts are purportedly frequent. Method: A temper outburst interview (TOI)…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Intellectual Disability, Environmental Influences, Phenomenology
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Lester, Barry M.; Conradt, Elisabeth; Marsit, Carmen – Child Development, 2016
Epigenetics provides the opportunity to revolutionize our understanding of the role of genetics and the environment in explaining human behavior, although the use of epigenetics to study human behavior is just beginning. In this introduction, the authors present the basics of epigenetics in a way that is designed to make this exciting field…
Descriptors: Genetics, Child Development, Scientific Research, Behavior Patterns
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Guimond, Fanny-Alexandra; Brendgen, Mara; Vitaro, Frank; Forget-Dubois, Nadine; Dionne, Ginette; Tremblay, Richard E.; Boivin, Michel – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study used a genetically informed design to assess the effects of friends' and nonfriends' reticent and dominant behaviors on children's observed social reticence in a competitive situation. Potential gene-environment correlations (rGE) and gene-environment interactions (GxE) in the link between (a) friends' and…
Descriptors: Genetics, Environmental Influences, Prediction, Correlation
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Wolock, Samuel L.; Yates, Andrew; Petrill, Stephen A.; Bohland, Jason W.; Blair, Clancy; Li, Ning; Machiraju, Raghu; Huang, Kun; Bartlett, Christopher W. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Numerous studies have examined gene × environment interactions (G × E) in cognitive and behavioral domains. However, these studies have been limited in that they have not been able to directly assess differential patterns of gene expression in the human brain. Here, we assessed G × E interactions using two publically available datasets…
Descriptors: Genetics, Smoking, Regression (Statistics), Brain
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Karatoreos, Ilia N.; McEwen, Bruce S. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Adaptation is key to survival. An organism must adapt to environmental challenges in order to be able to thrive in the environment in which they find themselves. Resilience can be thought of as a measure of the ability of an organism to adapt, and to withstand challenges to its stability. In higher animals, the brain is a key player in…
Descriptors: Physiology, Neurology, Biology, Resilience (Psychology)
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Burt, S. Alexandra; Neiderhiser, Jenae M. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Research has supported the existence of distinct behavioral patterns, demographic correlates, and etiologic mechanisms for aggressive (AGG) versus nonaggressive but delinquent (DEL) antisocial behavior. Though behavioral genetic studies have the potential to further crystallize these dimensions, inconsistent results have limited their…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Genetics, Environmental Influences
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Del Giudice, Marco; Angeleri, Romina; Manera, Valeria – Developmental Review, 2009
This paper presents a new perspective on the transition from early to middle childhood (i.e., human juvenility), investigated in an integrative evolutionary framework. Juvenility is a crucial life history stage, when social learning and interaction with peers become central developmental functions; here it is argued that the "juvenile transition"…
Descriptors: Socialization, Child Development, Individual Differences, Biographies
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Taylor, L.; Oliver, C. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2008
Background: Behaviour problems and a preference for adult contact are reported to be prominent in the phenotype of Smith-Magenis syndrome. In this study we examined the relationship between social interactions and self-injurious and aggressive/disruptive behaviour in Smith-Magenis syndrome to explore potential operant reinforcement of problem…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Genetics, Mental Retardation, Self Destructive Behavior
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Hartman, Christie A.; Rhee, Soo H.; Willcutt, Erik G.; Pennington, Bruce F – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
The present study is the first to utilize twin modeling to examine whether parent-teacher disagreement for ADHD ratings is due to parent or teacher bias, or due to raters observing different but valid ADHD behaviors. A joint analysis was conducted with 106 twin pairs, including twins selected for ADHD and control twin pairs. Total ADHD scores were…
Descriptors: Twins, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Scores
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Van Hulle, C. A.; Lemery-Chalfant, K.; Goldsmith, H. H. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Relatively little is known about the genetic architecture of childhood behavioral disorders in very young children. Method: In this study, parents completed the Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment, a questionnaire that assesses symptoms of childhood disorders, as well as socio-emotional competencies, for 822 twin pairs…
Descriptors: Twins, Behavior Disorders, Toddlers, Infants
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Koenen, Karestan C. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2005
The past two decades have seen an explosion in research in the fields of violence and trauma and behavior genetics. These two fields came into direct conflict when Lisabeth Fisher DiLalla and Irving I. Gottesman outlined a fundamental conceptual limitation of trauma and violence research: that rather than being causal, the well-documented…
Descriptors: Genetics, Behavior Patterns, Violence, Interpersonal Relationship
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Bixler, Ray H. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1980
Critiques an environmentalist view of the effects of nature and nurture on behavior. Argues for an interactionist position in which nature and nurture are totally and inextricably involved in each and every organismic response. (MP)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Environmental Influences, Genetics
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Gottlieb, Marc S. – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
This article aims to illustrate some of the far-reaching theoretical impacts the research of Gilbert Gottlieb has made outside the fields of psychology, biology and sociology. Specifically, this theorist's "Developmental Point of View" has far reaching impacts as a potential model for investigating in the fields of health care.…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Models, Health Services, Developmental Stages
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