Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and
situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that external social conditions …

Recent analyses have discovered broad alterations in the expression of human genes
across different social environments. The emerging field of social genomics has begun to …

The relationship between genes and social behavior has historically been construed as a
one-way street, with genes in control. Recent analyses have challenged this view, by …

A growing literature in human social genomics has begun to analyze how everyday life
circumstances influence human gene expression. Social-environmental conditions such as …

A recent series of papers in Nature Genetics described several combined Genome Wide
Association Studies (GWAS) of height. Although height is a highly heritable trait that can be …

In this article, we address a number of issues surrounding biological models of personality
traits. Most traditional and many contemporary biological models of personality traits assume …

Social science genetics is concerned with understanding whether, how and why genetic
differences between human beings are linked to differences in behaviours and …

What genes and regulatory sequences contribute to the organization and functioning of
neural circuits and molecular pathways in the brain that support social behavior? How does …

Epidemiological studies provided a large body of evidence that personality dimensions are
influenced by genetic factors and that the genetic component is highly complex, polygenic …

Basic quantitative genetic models of human behavioral variation have made clear that
individual differences in behavior cannot be understood without acknowledging the …