Disciplinary Barriers to Progress in Behavior Genetics: Defensive Reactions to Bits and Pieces

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.F. Elias
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Genetics ◽  
Defensive Reactions

Behavior Genetics Comes of Age

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 976-977
Author(s):  
ROBERT C. ELSTON
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Genetics

Behavior Genetics: Issues and Research Trends

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-131
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Singer
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Genetics ◽  
Research Trends

Human behavior genetics

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven G. Vandenberg ◽  
John DeFries ◽  
David C. Garron ◽  
Ronald C. Johnson ◽  
William Meredith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Behavior Genetics

Personality Genetics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Derringer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Behavior Genetics ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Sequence Information ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
Genetic Sequence ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Causal Pathway

Although correlations between personality and health are consistently observed, often the causal pathway, or even the direction of effect, is unknown. Genes provide an additional node of information which may be included to help clarify the relationship between personality and health. Genetically informative studies, whether focused on family-identified relationships or specific genotypes, provide clear benefits to disentangling causal processes. Genetic measures approach near universal reliability and validity: processes of inheritance are consistent across cultures, geography, and time, such that similar models and instruments may be applied to incredibly diverse populations. Although frequency and intercorrelations differ by ancestry background (Novembre et al., 2008) and cultural context (Tucker-Drob & Bates, 2016) may exert powerful moderating effects, fundamental form and function is consistent across all members of our species, and even many other species. Genetic sequence information is also of course highly temporally stable, and possesses temporal precedence. That is, the literal genetic sequence is lifetime-stable and comes before all other experiences. Human behavior genetic research, like most personality research, faces limitations in terms of causal inferences that may be made in the absence of experimental manipulation. But behavior genetics takes advantage of natural experiments: populations that differ in terms of genetic similarity (either inferred – such as twins – or measured – such as genotyping methods) to begin to unravel the complex influences on individual differences in personality and health outcomes.

The Analytic Identification of Variance Component Models Common to Behavior Genetics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Hunter ◽  
S. Mason Garrison ◽  
S. Alexandra Burt ◽  
Joseph L. Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Variance Component ◽  
Behavior Genetics ◽  
Variance Component Models ◽  
Component Models

Heritability estimates in behavior genetics: Wasn't that station passed long ago?

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 361-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim E. Crusio
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Behavior Genetics ◽  
Human Research ◽  
Real Place ◽  
Heritability Estimates

AbstractCharney describes several mechanisms that will bias estimates of heritability in unpredictable directions. In addition, the mechanisms described by Charney explain the puzzling fact that research in human-behavior genetics routinely reports higher heritabilities than animal studies do. However, I argue that the concept of heritability has no real place in human research anyway.

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