Robert Plomin is ranked among the most influential living psychologists. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the Behavior Genetics Association, American Psychological Society, and the ...

About the author:Erik G. Willcutt is the author of the chapter: "Behavioral Genetic Approaches to Understand the Etiology of Comorbidity" and is an associate director in the Department of Psychology ...

A few weeks ago I was hurrying past a newsstand in Grand Central Station when the cover of the latest issue of Time stopped me short. Superimposed on a painting of a blue-skinned, red-lipped woman, ...

Robert Plomin is ranked among the most influential living psychologists. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the Behavior Genetics Association, American Psychological Society, and the ...

Breaking Ground: Jerry McClearn, Kurt Schlesinger, and Jim Wilson. Founded in 1967, the Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) was one of the first research institutes dedicated to examining the ...

Readers of the science pages could be forgiven for thinking that the conversation in the cartoon on the opposite page really took place. Study after study has shown that genes can affect behavior and ...

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has been a favorite model of developmental biologists and geneticists, but only recently have investigators begun to appreciate its usefulness in behavior genetics. Papers ...

In the 1960s, eugenics was reinvented as behaviour genetics, but soon went back off the rails. Aaron Panofsky’s Misbehaving Science explores what happened ARE some fields of scientific exploration so ...