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Viding, Essi; Jones, Alice P.; Paul, J. Frick; Moffitt, Terrie E.; Plomin, Robert – Developmental Science, 2008
A previous finding from our group indicated that teacher-rated antisocial behaviour (AB) among 7-year-olds is particularly heritable in the presence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits. Using a sample of 1865 same-sex twin pairs, we employed DeFries-Fulker extremes analysis to investigate whether teacher-rated AB with/without CU traits also shows…
Descriptors: Twins, Antisocial Behavior, Young Children, Heredity
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Dodge, Kenneth A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
The contentious nature-nurture debate in developmental psychology is poised to reach a rapprochement with contemporary concepts of gene-environment interaction, transaction, and fit. Discoveries over the past decade have revealed how neither genes nor the environment offers a sufficient window into human development. Rather, the most important…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Developmental Psychology, Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy