Finding 7. Most measures of the “environment” show significant genetic influencesee also Commentary: Why are children in the same family so different? Non-shared environment three decades later
How can measures of the environment show genetic influence? The reason appears to be that such measures do not assess the environment independent of the person. As noted earlier, humans select, modify, and create environments correlated with their genetic behavioral propensities such as personality and psychopathology.
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Finding 9. Most environmental effects are not shared by children growing up in the same family
It is reasonable to think that growing up in the same family makes brothers and sisters similar psychologically, which is what developmental theorists from Freud onwards have assumed. However, for most behavioral dimensions and disorders, it is genetics that accounts for similarity among siblings.
- Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics by Plomin et al.
Sunday, October 14, 2018
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