New ideas in human behavior genetics may be set in motion by construing psychological
groups as Mendelian populations (Tryon, 1957; Thompson, 1957). The continuity …

Identifies several key issues in personality psychology, focusing on the distinction between
approaches emphasizing species-typical tendencies and those emphasizing systematic …

The fields of animal and human behavior-genetics are charac-terized by what seem to be
arbitrary interests in a variety of pheno-types. In human work the exceptions that come to …

Proposes that theories of personality, according to the arguments presented in this chapter,
ideally should include both a specification of human nature and an account of the major …

Methods and Goals in Human Behavior Genetics examines trends in behavior genetics
research and presents a critical review of methodology. This volume was planned to be of …

A comprehensive evolutionary framework for understanding the maintenance of heritable
behavioral variation in humans is yet to be developed. Some evolutionary psychologists …

From the viewpoint of the behavioral sciences, behavioral genetics can be regarded as a
specialty of differential psychology or of biopsychology. It can also be viewed as a specialty …

AMONG APPROACHES to the study of psychological genetics, one of the most rewarding is
that which seeks to associate a behavioral trait witha physical feature known to be largely …

Genetic fixity and developmental rigidity of behavior may be advantageous where the
environment is uniform in space and stable in time, and in organisms with short life spans …

Personality psychologists can work in comfortable ignorance of behavioral genetics; without
knowledge of this field, they can devise trait measures, validate them and show their …