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  • Nature vs. nurture is nonsense: On the necessity of an integrated genetic, social, developmental, and personality psychology

    Author(s)
    Barlow, Fiona Kate
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    Barlow, Fiona K.
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    The field of behavioural genetics unambiguously demonstrates that heritable individual differences exist and are important in explaining human behaviour. Despite this, some psychological perspectives ignore this research. If we wish to comprehensively understand the impact of parenting, the environment, or any social factor, however, we must engage with genetics. In this article, I review research that reveals that genes affect not only our personalities, but the way that we understand and react to the social world. Studies further reveal that notable life events are in part explained by genetic variance. I detail how this ...
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    The field of behavioural genetics unambiguously demonstrates that heritable individual differences exist and are important in explaining human behaviour. Despite this, some psychological perspectives ignore this research. If we wish to comprehensively understand the impact of parenting, the environment, or any social factor, however, we must engage with genetics. In this article, I review research that reveals that genes affect not only our personalities, but the way that we understand and react to the social world. Studies further reveal that notable life events are in part explained by genetic variance. I detail how this could be the case through active, evocative, and passive genetic correlations, and go on to argue that all complex psychological traits are likely the result of multifaceted gene by environment interactions. A mistaken belief that genetic influence implies genetic essentialism, and is therefore tantamount to prejudice, is raised as possible reason why heritability is often ignored in the social sciences. The article concludes with practical suggestions for how we can embrace behavioural genetics as our methods struggle to match the divine complexity of human existence.
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    Journal Title
    AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
    Volume
    71
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/ajpy.12240
    Subject
    Psychology
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/383063
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