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Nature–nurture integration: The example of antisocial behavior.
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This article is published in American Psychologist.The article was published on 1997-04-01. It has received 193 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nature versus nurture.read more
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From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
TL;DR: From Neurons to Neighborhoods as discussed by the authors presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how children learn to learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior, and examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.
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Nongenomic Transmission Across Generations of Maternal Behavior and Stress Responses in the Rat
TL;DR: Results of cross-fostering studies reported here indicate that variations in maternal care can serve as the basis for a nongenomic behavioral transmission of individual differences in stress reactivity across generations.
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“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies
Joseph Henrich,Robert Boyd,Samuel Bowles,Colin F. Camerer,Ernst Fehr,Herbert Gintis,Richard McElreath,Michael Alvard,Abigail Barr,Jean Ensminger,Natalie Smith Henrich,Kim Hill,Francisco J. Gil-White,Michael Gurven,Frank W. Marlowe,John Q. Patton,David P. Tracer +16 more
TL;DR: A cross-cultural study of behavior in ultimatum, public goods, and dictator games in a range of small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of economic and cultural conditions found the canonical model – based on self-interest – fails in all of the societies studied.
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Personality and Subjective Well-Being
E Richard,Ed Diener +1 more
TL;DR: The heritability of subjective well-being is discussed in this article, which is defined as the portion of subjective happiness that is due to genetic differences between individuals, and it is found that personality can to some degree change over time, and with it, levels of subjective wellbeing can change.
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Etiologic connections among substance dependence, antisocial behavior, and personality: Modeling the externalizing spectrum
Robert F. Krueger,Brian M. Hicks,Christopher J. Patrick,Scott R. Carlson,William G. Iacono,Matt McGue +5 more
TL;DR: A hierarchical biometric model is presented of the origins of comorbidity among substance dependence, antisocial behavior, and a disinhibited personality style, and it is offered as a novel target for future research to reconcile evidence for general and specific causal factors within the externalizing spectrum.
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Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life.
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The bell curve : intelligence and class structure in American life
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution of cognitive class and education in the United States and the role of race and ethnicity in cognitive ability in the development of cognitive ability and the level of American education.
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Peer relations and later personal adjustment: Are low-accepted children at risk?
TL;DR: There is general support for the hypothesis that children with poor peer adjustment are at risk for later life difficulties, and support is clearest for the outcomes of dropping out and criminality.
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How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement
Abstract: Arthur Jensen argues that the failure of recent compensatory education efforts to produce lasting effects on children's IQ and achievement suggests that the premises on which these efforts have been based should be reexamined.
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Darwin's dangerous idea : evolution and the meanings of life
TL;DR: In this groundbreaking and very accessible book, Dennett, the acclaimed author of Consciousness Explained, demonstrates the power of the theory of natural selection and shows how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of our place in the universe as discussed by the authors.
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