Studying how genetic predispositions come together with environmental factors to contribute
to complex behavioral outcomes has great potential for advancing the understanding of the …

Behavior genetics studies how genetic differences among people contribute to differences in
their psychology and behavior. Here, I describe how the conclusions and methods of …

The life course paradigm has replaced child‐based, growth‐oriented (“ontogenetic”)
accounts of the person with models that emphasize the timing, social context, and …

We examine interactive effects of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) on heritable variation in
age at first consensual sexual intercourse in a young cohort of 3,350 female and 2,724 male …

Gene–environment interplay is a general term that covers several divergent concepts with
different meanings and different implications. In this review, we evaluate research evidence …

Our tendency to see the world of psychiatric illness in dichotomous and opposing terms has
three major sources: the philosophy of Descartes, the state of neuropathology in late …

With the advent of increasingly accessible technologies for typing genetic variation, studies
of gene-environment (G× E) interactions have proliferated in psychological research. Among …

Aims In this exciting era of gene discovery, we review evidence from family, adoption and
twin studies that examine the genetic basis for addiction. With a focus on the classical twin …

While many behavioral scientists believe that gene–environment (GE) interactions play an
important and perhaps pervasive role in human development and aging, little attention has …

There has been an explosion of interest in studying gene-environment interactions (GxE) as
they relate to the development of psychopathology. In this article, I review different …