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Heritability and Biological Explanation.
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Turkheimer, Eric – Psychological Review, 1998
Explores the role of biological causation in the development of behavioral outcomes. Genes and other biological structures constitute complex behavior, but the behavior of complex organisms cannot be derived from the biogenetic units of which it is composed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Genetics, Heredity
Nature-Nurture Integration: The Example of Antisocial Behavior.
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Rutter, Michael L. – American Psychologist, 1997
Explores the interplay between nature and nurture using antisocial behavior as the example, and discusses key genetic concepts and key environmental concepts. The final section considers the nature-nurture interaction in relation to passive, evocative, and active gene-environment correlations and calls for research into the effects of the…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Genetics
Bobo Clown Aggression in Childhood: Environment, Not Genes.
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Plomin, Robert; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1981
Twin children were videotaped hitting an inflated clown figure. Three behaviors (number of hits, intensity of hits, and number of quadrants hit) showed adequate response characteristics, rater reliability, and test-retest reliability. Twin analyses of the three behavioral ratings yielded no evidence of hereditary influence. (Author)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Children, Family Influence
Nature versus Nurture: The Timeless Anachronism.
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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
Factors Predisposing Drug Abuse.
Cheney, Carl D.; Phelps, Brady J. – 1990
The exact nature of the events which may predispose a person to substance abuse is not known. This paper provides a theoretical discussion and review which emphasizes three contexts which have been shown to predispose on individual to drug abuse: (1) prenatal exposure to a given substance; (2) environmental conditions present upon first exposure…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Drug Abuse
What Infants Know: The New Cognitive Science of Early Development.
Mehler, Jacques; Dupoux, Emmanuel – 1994
Noting that beyond the individual variations among humans, there is a body of mental abilities common to every human being, this book examines the debate among researchers about the extent to which humans are "preprogrammed," and suggests a new scientific psychology of human development. By examining experimental data obtained from…
Descriptors: Adults, Animal Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development
The Developmental Interface between Nature and Nurture: A Mutual Influence Model of Child Antisocial Behavior and Parent Behaviors.
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Ge, Xiaojia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined evidence for reciprocal influence between adoptive parents' behavior and heritable characteristics of adopted children. Found that psychiatric disorders of biological parents were significantly related to children's antisocial/hostile behaviors and consequently with adoptive parents' behavior. Also, the adoptee's antisocial/hostile…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adopted Children