Genetics and Experience: The Interplay Between Nature and Nurture

- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
1. Nature and Nurture
- Nature
-- DNA
-- Structural Genes
-- Nature-Nurture at a Molecular Level: the _Lac_ Operon Model Of Gene Regulation
-- Gene Regulation in More Complex Organisms
-- Gene Regulation and Development
-- Gene Regulation and Individual Differences
-- Selection, Instruction, and Adaptation
-- The Extended Phenotype
-- Quantitative Genetics
- Nurture
-- Molecular Biological Analysis of the Environment
-- History of Environmental Research
-- Models of Environment
-- Levels of Environment
-- Environmental Specificity
-- Environments Across Time
-- New Environmental Theories of Nature And Nurture
- Summary
2. The Nature of Nurture: Family Environment
- Quantitative Genetic Methods
- Rowe's Studies
- Other Research on Children's Perceptions of Family Environment
-- Retrospective Reports of Middle-aged Twins Reared Apart and Twins Reared Together
-- Reports Of Relative in Family Environments
-- A Systematic Examination of Family Environment Measures
- Research On Parents' Perceptions of Family Environment
-- Child-based Genetic Designs
-- Parent-based Genetic Designs
-- A Parent-offspring Adoption Study in Middle Childhood
-- Why no Genetic Contribution for Parental Control?
- Observational Research on the Family Environment
-- Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment In Cap
-- Lytton's Observational Twin Study
-- Videotape Observations of Mother-child Interactions In Cap
-- Nead: A New Observational Study
- Summary
3. The Nature Of Nurture: The Environment Beyond the Family
- Peers
- Friends and Teachers
- Social Support
- Life Events
- Others Aspects Of Extrafamilial Environments
-- Classroom Environment
-- Work Environment
-- Children's Television Viewing
-- Exposure to Drugs
-- Socioeconomic Status and Education
- Summary
4. Nature-nurture: Mediators of the Genetic Contribution to Measures of the Environment
- Genotype-Environment Correlation
-- Three Types of GE Correlation
-- Methods to Identify Measured GE Correlation
- Genetic Correlates Of Environmental Measures
- Multivariate Genetic Analysis: Passive, Reactive, and Active GE Correlation
-- Multivariate Genetic Analysis
-- Home, IQ, and Temperament
-- Parenting and Personality
-- Other Multivariate Genetic Analyses
- Environment-Behavior Correlations In Nonadoptive Versus Adoptive Homes: Passive GE Correlation
-- Home and IQ
-- Measures of Family Environment as Related to Other Developmental Measures
-- Parental Mediators of Passive GE Correlation
-- Beyond the Family Environment
- An Adoption Design to Detect Specific Reactive and Active GE Correlations
- Summary
5. Nature-Nurture and Experience
- GE Correlation and Development
- Experience
- A Theory of Genetics and Experience
-- 1. Genetic Differences Among Individuals Contribute to Measures of the Environment
-- 2. The Genetic Contribution to Measures of the Environment is Greater for Measures of Active Experience
-- 3. The Genetic Contribution to Measures of the Environment is Due in Part to Psychological Traits
-- 4. Genetic Differences Among Individuals Contribute to Differences in Experience Independent of Psychological Traits
-- 5. Genetic Factors Contribute to Links Between Environmental Measures and Developmental Outcomes
-- 6. Processes Underlying Genetic Contributions to Experience Change During Development
-- 7. Specific Genes That Affect Experience Will Be Identified
- References
- Index
- About the Author