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Carl T. Woods; Keith Davids – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
It is common to encourage people to envision life as a process of fulfilling their potential. But what exactly does this mean? Traditionally, this question has been addressed by way of 'complementarity'; dividing the human into biological and cultural components. Fulfilment is placed on the side of the cultural; an acquisition of encoded secondary…
Descriptors: Expectation, Self Efficacy, Aptitude, Individual Development
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Sébastien Miravete; André Tricot – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Many recent studies support the idea that creativity is partially or totally "domain-general." Certain individuals may exhibit greater creativity than the average, whatever the domain. More precisely, certain general factors (e.g., genetic factors, creative personality) could significantly impact creativity. This systematic review aims…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Theory Practice Relationship
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Elizabeth A. Shewark; Alexandra Y. Vazquez; Amber L. Pearson; Kelly L. Klump; S. Alexandra Burt – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Neighborhood is a key context where children learn to process social information; however, the field has largely overlooked the ways children's individual characteristics might be moderated by neighborhood effects. We examined 1,030 six- to 11-year-olds (48.7% female; 82% White) twin pairs oversampled for neighborhood disadvantage from the Twin…
Descriptors: Children, Twins, Neighborhoods, Nature Nurture Controversy
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Butler, Kevin – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
Dyslexia is a reading disability affecting a large number of people worldwide. People with dyslexia have at least normal levels of intelligence, yet they nevertheless have significant difficulties with reading. Dyslexia is known to have genetic causes; however, some researchers believe that there are also environmental factors at play.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Dyslexia, Phonetics, Nature Nurture Controversy
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Mc Ewen, Birgitta – Science & Education, 2022
Epigenetics, the new research field at the cutting edge of biology research, needs to be introduced in biology education. The aim of this review is to support biology teachers and other non-experts to get an overview of the field, as a review in epigenetics has hardly been written for these groups. This review was done by finding documents…
Descriptors: Genetics, Biology, Science Teachers, Lay People
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Marley-Payne, Jack – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2021
This paper evaluates how our understanding of natural talent affects questions of educational justice. We argue that education debates currently suffer from a naïve understanding of 'nature versus nurture' and present a more rigorous approach that allows us to see what is required for fair treatment of students. As it stands, there is controversy…
Descriptors: Nature Nurture Controversy, Talent, Achievement, Educational Quality
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Sam Trejo – Grantee Submission, 2024
Birth weight is a robust predictor of valued life course outcomes, emphasizing the importance of prenatal development. But does birth weight act as a proxy for environmental conditions in utero, or do biological processes surrounding birth weight themselves play a role in healthy development? To answer this question, we leverage variation in birth…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Prenatal Influences, Genetics, Hypothesis Testing
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Eirunn Skaug; Nikolai O. Czajkowski; Trine Waaktaar; Svenn Torgersen – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The aim of the study was to examine associations between life events and self-assessed loneliness in adolescence. We used data from a Norwegian population-based twin sample including seven birth cohorts (N = 2,879, 56% females). The participants completed self-report questionnaires three times throughout adolescence, with 2 years in between (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Twins, Nature Nurture Controversy, Biological Influences
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Roetzel, Peter Gordon; Roetzel, Lina – Open Education Studies, 2023
In this article, we contribute to the longstanding debate among economists regarding the question of "nature or nurture" with respect to economics students' attitudes toward various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. While previous research starts the debate by beginning with first-year economics students, we aim to evaluate…
Descriptors: Nature Nurture Controversy, Economics Education, School Schedules, Student Attitudes
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He, Angela Xiaoxue – Infant and Child Development, 2022
In acquiring a native language, the input children receive, to an unneglectable extent, shapes the rate of acquisition and the ultimate achievement. This in turn has cascading effects on many aspects of later development, including but not limited to language. Providing optimal input for early language development, therefore, is of major interest…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Native Language, Language Acquisition, Memory
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Soudien, Crain; Harvey, Jaqueline – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
The global learning community, led by researchers in fields such as psychology, sociology and pedagogics, had arrived at a consensus about the social "and" biological nature of learning until work in epigenetics brought new insights. After a brief overview of learning theories and the role of the environment, recent findings from…
Descriptors: Genetics, Learning, Environmental Influences, Learning Theories
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Zheng, Lei; Chen, Jie; Li, Xinying; Gan, Yiqun – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Future orientation tends to prevent engagement in risk behaviours and results in good academic performance among adolescents. Our study aimed to establish whether genetic factors contributed to future orientation among Chinese adolescents. We recruited 988 pairs of twins from Beijing. By constructing a high-order A (additive genetic variance) C…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Twins, Orientation
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Yaden, David B., Jr.; Reinking, David; Smagorinsky, Peter – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
In this article, we critique the science of reading when it is positioned within the reading wars as settling disagreements about reading and how it should be taught. We frame our argument in terms of troublesome binaries, specifically between nature and nurture. We interpret that binary in relation to Overton's distinction between split and…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading Instruction, Nature Nurture Controversy, Theories
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Rachael W. Cheung; Chloe Austerberry; Pasco Fearon; Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas; Leslie D. Leve; Daniel S. Shaw; Jody M. Ganiban; Misaki N. Natsuaki; Jenae M. Neiderhieser; David Reiss – Child Development, 2024
Parenting and children's temperament are important influences on language development. However, temperament may reflect prior parenting, and parenting effects may reflect genes common to parents and children. In 561 U.S. adoptees (57% male) and their birth and rearing parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African American, and 7% and 2% Latinx,…
Descriptors: Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Child Development, Language Acquisition
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Bruno Sauce; John Wiedenhoeft; Nicholas Judd; Torkel Klingberg – npj Science of Learning, 2021
The interplay of genetic and environmental factors behind cognitive development has preoccupied multiple fields of science and sparked heated debates over the decades. Here we tested the hypothesis that developmental genes rely heavily on cognitive challenges - as opposed to natural maturation. Starting with a polygenic score (cogPGS) that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Short Term Memory
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