While genetic conflict is a normal occurrence, its influence has largely been overlooked in psychology. One reason is because researchersassume that genetic cooperation is necessaryfor the health and well-being of the individual. Another reason is because most human traits arecontrolled by many genes....
There aren't any easy answers.Despite the progress that has been made in genetics and psychology,human intelligence has remained one of the most controversial areas of modern science until now and the discovery of a gene linked to intelligence has made the experts think again. Robert Plomin of...
5. Genes and Human Psychological Traits This truism is illustrated for the major domains of normal human individual differences: mental ability, personality, psychological interests, and social ... TJJ Bouchard - 《Innate Mind》 被引量: 9发表: 2008年 Discussion on 'The evolutionary genetics of pe...
Carl Jung is one well-known psychology theorist who contributed to the definition of personality psychology. Jung introduced the idea that an individual’s personality was closely connected to their behaviors and feelings in social situations, which lead to the development of the introversion-extraversio...
Despite the progress that has been made in genetics and psychology, human intelligence has remained one of the most controversial areas of modern science,until now, that is, for the discovery of a gene linked to intelligence has made the experts think again. Robert Plomin of the Institute of ...
Much recent research has focused on the ratio of the lengths of the second to fourth manual digits (2D:4D) as a predictor of the degree of expression of sexually dimorphic and other sex-hormone-mediated traits. However, published findings are often contradictory or subject to various methodologic...
Most are musical prodigies; one is an artist and another a math whiz, who developed a new discipline in mathematics and, by age 13, had had a paper accepted for publication in a mathematics journal. 他们中大多数是 音乐奇才 ;有一个是艺术家,另一个是数学天才。后者发现了一条新的数学定律, ...
GoalsofPsychology•describebehavior•explainbehavior•predictbehavior•control“some”behavior 2020/7/3 DescribingBehavior First,thepsychologistmustobserveandaccuratelymeasurethebehavior.Behavioraldataincludesthepsychologist’sreportofobservationsaboutthebehaviorandtheconditionsunderwhichthebehavioroccurs 2020/7/3 Des...
This paper discusses the morality of patenting human genes and genetic technologies. After examining arguments on different sides of the issue, the paper concludes that there are, at present, no compelling reasons to prohibit the extension of current patent laws to the realm of human genetics. ...
Children’s early speech often bears little resemblance to that of adults, and yet parents and other caregivers are able to interpret that speech and react accordingly. Here we investigate how adult listeners’ inferences reflect sophisticated beliefs about what children are trying to communicate, as...