Born That Way

Genes, Behavior, Personality

William Wright

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134979721
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Taking the nature vs. nurture debate to a new level, this fascinating, comprehensive journey into the world of genetic research and molecular biology offers a fresh assessment of the work that has been done in this relatively new field during the last half century-work that has demolished common assumptions and overturned existing theories about what determines our personality and behavior.

Index

abortion, 257–59, 264–65 , 266

addictions, 14, 16, 255–56, 257, 267. See also alcoholism

adoption studies, 7–8, 37, 85 198; criticisms of, 205–9, 217, 221; and on intelligence, 88, 102–3, 107, 110, 221; methodology of, 205–9; and personality, 49–50, 87–88; and race, 102–3

African Genesis (Ardrey), 174–80

age, 39, 56, 68–69, 88

aggression, 53, 55, 139–40, 174–80, 236, 269–72. See also violence; Wye Conference

alcoholism, 9, 18, 94, 95, 97, 130–31, 187, 208, 222, 224–25, 242

All God's Children (Butterfield), 247–51

American Psychologist, 188, 275–78

Amish families depression study, 129–30, 131, 133, 141, 142, 224

Andreasen, Nancy, 156

Angier, Natalie, 239

animals: aggression in, 236; and behaviorism, 166; evolution of behavior in, 35; family life of, 144–46; and gene-environment interaction, 143–44; genetics as basis of behavior in, 11; human studies compared with, 130; humans as, 152–55, 224; 1950s and 1960s studies of, 172–74; and prairie voles study, 144–46; and sociobiology, 188–89, 190; specific behavioral gene in, 10

Ardrey, Robert, 174–80, 181, 189, 269

astrology, 73

attitudes and genes, 56, 262–67

Australian studies, 263–64

backward-bathing twins, 79–80, 84

Bailey, Michael, 51, 135–36

Baker, Russell, 18

Balaban, Evan, 207–8, 209, 238–39

Baron, Miron, 130

Beckwith, Jonathan, 203–5, 234, 238

beer-drinking firemen, 77

behavior: definition of, 5–6

behavioral genetics: acceptance of, 13, 17–18, 45, 85, 197, 223, 238; and “bad” knowledge, 215; benefits/misuses of, 7, 17, 255–73; emergence of, 182; as fad, 16, 1...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ONE The Chemistry of Self
• TWO Birth of a Study
• THREE Desperately Seeking Twins
• FOUR Cosmic Secrets of Twins
• FIVE Minnesota’s Triumphs
• SIX Two Dogs Named Toy
• SEVEN More Weirdness
• EIGHT Other Behavioral Genetics Studies
• NINE Stars of the New Field
• TEN The Other End–Searching the DNA
• ELEVEN Moving Right Along the Double Helix
• TWELVE The Ups and Downs of Human Nature
• THIRTEEN Short and Happy Life of the Tabula Rasa
• FOURTEEN Surviving the Jensen Furor
• FIFTEEN Oh So Political Science
• SIXTEEN Scientists in Denial
• SEVENTEEN Violent Crime in the Maryland Woods
• EIGHTEEN Conclusions
• APPENDIX
• NOTES
• INDEX