Nature and nurture an introduction to human behavioral genetics

Abstract

The book includes five chapters. The first introduces the substance of behavioral genetics by asking why people differ. Chapter 2 discusses how heredity affects behavior. This chapter introduces molecular genetics and Mendelian genetics in so far as these topics apply to an understanding of behavioral genetics. The third chapter presents the methods of behavioral genetics that permit us to explore the effects of heredity on behavior. An overview of the evidence for genetic influence in such domains as intelligence, personality, and psychopathology is included in Chapter 4. The final chapter considers the nurture side of nature-nurture as viewed from the perspective of behavioral genetics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)