The Inheritance of Personality and Ability: Research Methods and Findings

- Preface
- Author's Notes and Acknowledgments
1. "Scientific and Social Issues in the Advance of Behavior Genetics"
- 1. Historical Roots of Genetics Prior to 1800
- 2. Modern Growth of Interest in Human Psychological Heredity
- 3. Emotional Problems in Absorbing the Findings of Human Genetics
- 4. The Warring Ancestries of Genetic Methods and Concepts
- 5. Behavior Genetics as a Vital Part of Learning Theory and Social Psychology
- 6. The Need for Precise Nomenclature
- 7. Summary
2. "Methods and Models Available for Research in Behavior Genetics"
- 1. Overview of Methods
- 2. The Clinical Syndrome, Genealogical, or Pedigree Method (CSG Method)
- 3. Experimental, Inheritance-Manipulating Animal Research
- 4. The Physical-Linkage Method
- 5. The Convarkin Methods: Initial Survey
- 6. Maturation-Learning Process Analysis
- 7. Summary
3. "The Twin Method of Investigation with Illustrative Findings"
- 1. Comparisons of Variances as a First Step in Behavior Genetics Research in the Convarkin Methods
- 2. The Nature of the Complete and Partial Twin Methods
- 3. The Breakdown of Concrete into Abstract Variances
- 4. Some Qualifying Considerations in Method and Model
- 5. Interaction and Correlation of Genetic and Threptic Effects
- 6. The Calculation of Heritability, _H_, and the Nature-Nurture Ratio, _N_
- 7. A Brief Survey of Ability Heritabilities by the Twin Method on within-Family Variance
- 8. A Brief Survey of Personality and Psychopathology Heritabilities by the Twin Method on within-Family Variance
- 9. Summary
4. "The Genesis of the MAVA Model and Its Solutions"
- 1. The Intrinsic Potency of Using Many Family Constellations in MAVA
- 2. The Principles for Relating Abstract to Concrete Variances
- 3. The Unknowns That Genothreptics Seeks: A Priority List
- 4. The OSES Solutions for the Most Limited MAVA Experiment
- 5. The OSES Solutions for the Less Limited MAVA Model and Experimental Design
- 6. The Full MAVA as the Most Complete Convarkin Design for Analyses through Offspring Data
- 7. MAVA Analyses by Least-Squares and Maximum-Likelihood Methods
- 8. Summary
5. "Further Designs for Determining Genetic, Threptic, and Heritability Values"
- 1. The Incidence of Assortive Mating in Typical Populations Today
- 2. How Assortiveness Affects Estimates of Genetic and Threptic Values
- 3. Using Purely Genetic, Mendelian Relations of Parents, Offspring, and Other Relatives as an Adjunct to Solutions
- 4. How Dominance, Epistacy, and Linkage Affect Genetic Partitioning for Reaching Broad (_H~B~_) and Narrow (_H~N~_) Heritabilities
- 5. The Special Heritabilities Calculated by Parent-Offspring Methods with and without Genetic Partitioning
- 6. The Parent-Offspring Constellation as an Extended but "Fragmentary" MAVA Design
- 7. Other Single- or Two-Constellation and Across-Generations Designs: Adoptive Families, Sibs Apart
- 8. The Macroscopic Approach through Racial and Cultural ANOVA Designs
- 9. Summary
6. "Models of Interaction of Learning and Genetic Processes"
- 1. Relating Individual Personality Development to the Ambient Culture by the Econetic Matrices
- 2. Discovering Learning Sources for a Particular Trait by PLA Experimental Design
- 3. Genothreptic Splitting of Developmental Curves: Four Methods within and across Cultures
- 4. Factorial Separation of Curves by _P_-Technique: The Case of Intelligence
- 5. The Use of Comparative MAVA in a Developmental Setting
- 6. Learning Calculations Refined: The Contributions of Particular Environmental Elements to Pure Threptic Measures
- 7. The Rise of Unitary Trait Patterns by Genothreptic Interaction
- 8. Summary
7. "Evaluating Interactions: Path Coefficients and Diverse Heritabilities"
- 1. Interaction and Covariance of Genetic and Environmental Influences
- 2. The Logically Possible, Empirically Researchable Forms of Genothreptic Covariance
- 3. Causal Influences in Genothreptic Correlations
- 4. Path Coefficient Hypotheses
- 5. Further Path Coefficient Models in the Parent and Offspring Generation
- 6. Construing and Contextual Dimensions in Environmental Action
- 7. Heritabilities, Broad and Narrow: The Genotypic Structures Fitting Genetic Variances
- 8. The Six Heritability Coefficients and Their Interpretations
- 9. Summary
8. "The Inheritance of Abilities: Some Psychometric Requirements"
- 1. Three Approaches toward a Strategic Choice of Psychological Variables for Genothreptic Research
- 2. The Triadic Theory of Ability and Its Genetic Implications
- 3. Correcting for Error in Measurements and Samples: General Considerations
- 4. Psychometric Handling of Compositeness and Correlation in Calculating True Variances
- 5. The Heritability of Primary Abilities
- 6. The Heritability of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence Examined by the OSES Method
- 7. The Heritability of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence Examined by the Least-Squares Method
- 8. Final Hypotheses with Suggestions for Further and Crucial Research Designs
- 9. Summary
9. "The Heritability of Nine Primary and Five Secondary Source Traits in Q-Data"
- 1. The Properties of Questionnaire Data
- 2. The Personality Control Triumvirate: C, G, and Q3, by OSES, Least-Squares, and Maximum-Likelihood Methods
- 3. Heritabilities of Dominance (_E_), Premsia (_I_), Surgency (_F_), and Self-Sufficiency (_Q~2~_), by the Three Methods
- 4. OSES, Least-Squares, and Maximum-Likelihood Analysis of Guilt Proneness (_O_), Parmia (_H_), and Ergic Tension (_Q~4~_)
- 5. The Heritabilities of the Secondaries: Exvia-Invia (_Q_I), Anxiety (_Q_II), Cortertia (_Q_III), Independence (_Q_IV), and Control (_Q_VIII)
- 6. General Considerations in Evaluating Results and Their Implications
- 7. Summary
10. "Heritability and Conceptual Advances for Source Traits in _T_-Data"
- 1. Properties of Objective Test (_T_-Data) Source Trait Measurement
- 2. The Heritability of Assertiveness (U.I. 16), Inhibitory Control (U.I. 17), and Independence (U.I. 19) by OSES, Least Squares, and Maximum Likelihood
- 3. The Heritability of Anxiety (U.I. 24), Regression (U.I. 23), and Narcissistic Self-Sentiment ("Self-Will") (U.I. 26)
- 4. The Heritability of Exuberance (U.I. 21) and Asthenia (U.I. 28)
- 5. The Heritability of Reality Contact (Realism-versus-A Psychotic Break) (U.I. 25), Exvia-Invia (U.I. 32), and Sanguineness-versus-Discouragement (U.I. 33)
- 6. Structural and Genetic Models to Explain the Heritability of Secondary Personality Traits
- 7. Some Perspective on Regularities and Irregularities of Findings
- 8. Objectives for the Future in Behavior Genetics: In Research and in Psychological Practice
- 9. Summary
- References
- Glossary
- Author Index
- Subject Index