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Rutter, Michael; Moffitt, Terrie E.; Caspi, Avshalom – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Gene-environment interplay is a general term that covers several divergent concepts with different meanings and different implications. In this review, we evaluate research evidence on four varieties of gene-environment interplay. First, we consider epigenetic mechanisms by which environmental influences alter the effects of genes. Second, we…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Psychopathology, Genetics, Environmental Influences
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Blute, Marion – Social Forces, 2006
Gene-culture interactions have largely been modelled employing population genetic-type models. Moreover, in the most notable application to date, the "interactive" modes have been one way rather than bidirectional. This paper suggests using game theoretic, fully interactive models. Employing the logic utilized in population ecology for coevolution…
Descriptors: Evolution, Nature Nurture Controversy, Genetics, Models
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Balaban, Evan – Cognition, 2006
Biological contributions to cognitive development continue to be conceived predominantly along deterministic lines, with proponents of different positions arguing about the preponderance of gene-based versus experience-based influences that organize brain circuits irreversibly during prenatal or early postnatal life, and evolutionary influences…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Biology, Genetics, Evolution
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Ellis, Michael V.; Robbins, Erica S. – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1990
Presents interview with Jerome Kagan who has studied the role of biology as a major determinant of human behavior for more than three decades. Claims results of this research have had significant impact on the field of developmental psychology and on understanding of temperamental factors. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Biographies, Developmental Psychology, Interviews, Nature Nurture Controversy
Mumford, Michael D.; Mobley, Michele I. – Creativity Research Journal, 1989
In reviewing the Lumsden and Findlay model of creative ontogeny and its potential influences on geneculture coevolution, the authors found it consistent with certain aspects of the creative process and suggestive of promising new research avenues. They also concluded that biologically based models, especially concerning cultural innovation, must…
Descriptors: Creativity, Culture, Models, Nature Nurture Controversy
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Frenzel, Anne C.; Pekrun, Reinhard; Goetz, Thomas – Learning and Instruction, 2007
A multilevel approach was used to analyze relationships between perceived classroom environments and emotions in mathematics. Based on Pekrun's (2000) [A social-cognitive, control-value theory of achievement emotions. In J. Heckhausen (Ed.), Motivational psychology of human development (pp. 143-163)] social-cognitive, control-value theory of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Environment, Emotional Experience
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Kovas, Yulia; Haworth, Claire M. A.; Petrill, Stephen A.; Plomin, Robert – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
The genetic and environmental etiologies of 3 aspects of low mathematical performance (math disability) and the full range of variability (math ability) were compared for boys and girls in a sample of 5,348 children age 10 years (members of 2,674 pairs of same-sex and opposite-sex twins) from the United Kingdom (UK). The measures, which we…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Nature Nurture Controversy, Genetics, Etiology
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Smedley, Audrey – American Psychologist, 2006
In this article, the author responds to M. J. Zyphur's comments on the original article by A. Smedley and B. D. Smedley. Race, as people live and understand it, inhabits a dimension of reality that transcends biology and cannot be reduced to genes, chromosomes, or even phenotypes. A biological or genetic view of race cannot encompass the lived…
Descriptors: Race, Genetics, Biodiversity, Evolution
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Kupfer, Joseph – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2007
Electronic technology has created a revolution in portability of information, documentation, and communication. We are now able to connect with people, information, organizations, and merchandise from anywhere at practically any time. As electronically fabricated environments replace actual physical surroundings, however, we become displaced.…
Descriptors: Internet, Online Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications
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Casler, Lawrence – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Product-moment correlations between Stanford-Binet IQs of 151 women and the Gesell Developmental Quotients of their illegitimate children were significant when the children were approximately 2 months old and residing in institutions. After the children were adopted, the correlations dropped at first but then increased in the final tests given at…
Descriptors: Adoption, Correlation, Infants, Intelligence
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Horn, Joseph M. – Child Development, 1983
Intelligence test scores were obtained from parents and children in 300 adoptive families and compared with similar data available from the children's biological mothers. Results support the hypothesis that genetic variability is an important influence in the development of individual differences in intelligence. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adoption, Individual Differences, Intelligence Quotient, Nature Nurture Controversy
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Eckland, Bruce K. – American Journal of Education, 1980
Argues that the authors of "Who Gets Ahead?" (Jencks et al., 1979) were wrong to underplay the actual importance of measured ability in the status-attainment process and to claim that the United States is not meritocratic. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nature Nurture Controversy, Racial Factors, Scores
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Gregory, Alice M.; Eley, Thalia C.; Plomin, Robert – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2004
Anxiety and conduct problems covary, yet studies have not explored the genetic and environmental origins of this association. We analyzed parent-reported anxiety and conduct problems in 6,783 pairs of twins at 2-, 3-, and 4-years of age. As anxiety and conduct problems were fairly stable across the three ages (average 1-year correlation was .53),…
Descriptors: Females, Males, Genetics, Anxiety
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Walker, Sheila O.; Plomin, Robert – Educational Psychology, 2006
Although prior research has examined children's perceptions of the classroom environment as related to academic achievement, genetically sensitive designs have not been employed. In the first study of its kind for the primary school classroom environment, data were collected for 3,020 pairs of nine-year-old identical and fraternal twin pairs in…
Descriptors: Twins, Student Attitudes, Nature Nurture Controversy, Elementary School Students
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Moore, Celia L. – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Gilbert Gottlieb's formative role in establishing a science of experimental behavioral embryology is described. His experimental program on the development of species identification served as a model for developmental psychobiologists seeking alternatives to the nature-nurture dichotomies prevalent in the 20th century. Two of the major concepts…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Embryology, Animals, Identification
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