The limits of family influence : genes, experience, and behavior

The limits of family influence : genes, experience, and behavior /

Most parents believe that their child's personality and intellectual development are a direct result of their child-rearing practices and home environment. This belief is supported by many social scientists who contend that the influences of "nature" and "nurture" are insepa...

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Main Author: Rowe, David C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, ©1994.
Subjects:
Nature and nurture.
Behavior genetics.
Socialization.
Genetics, Behavioral.
Social Environment.
Socialisatie (sociale wetenschappen)
Erfelijkheid en omgeving.
Opvoeding.
Ontwikkelingspsychologie.
Familie.
Sozialisation.
Humans > Behaviour > Role of > Genetics
Table of Contents:
  • The primacy of child rearing in socialization theory
  • Parental treatment effects in socialization theories
  • Family primacy?
  • Limitations of socialization studies
  • Where does environmental influence start and stop?
  • Separating nature and nurture
  • Variability
  • Environmental components of variation
  • Genetic variability
  • Research designs for separating nature and nurture
  • Environments and behavior
  • As the twig is bent? : families and personality
  • Personality traits and their identification
  • Behavior genetic studies of personality traits
  • Behavior genetic studies of psychopathology
  • Behavior genetic studies of social attitudes
  • Behavior genetic research on religious affiliation
  • Niche picking
  • Limited rearing effects on intelligence (IQ)
  • General intelligence : definitions and controversies
  • Explanations for intellectual growth
  • Behavior genetic studies of rearing environments and IQ
  • Studies of IQ, speed, and capacity
  • Preliminary research on physiology and IQ
  • Genes and IQ : possibilities for future research
  • A model of intelligence
  • Uniting nature and nurture : the genetics of environmental measures
  • The genetics of social class
  • The genetics of child-rearing styles
  • The genetics of other environmental variables
  • Finding the thresholds
  • Gender differences
  • Studies of sex-linked personality traits
  • Studies of differential treatments
  • The biological basis of sex differences
  • The evolutionary perspective
  • Gender dimorphisms and individual differences
  • Biological sex differences and cultural transmission
  • Why families have little influence
  • The generality of learning
  • The diffusion of cigarette smoking : examining models of cultural transmission
  • Forces maintaining genetic variability
  • The need for theories of coevolution
  • Social and policy implications.

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