Our comprehensive meta-analysis combined prevalence figures of child physical abuse
reported in 111 studies, including 168 independent samples with a total of 9,698,801 …

Recent years have witnessed major advances in our understanding of temperament in
childhood. Early views on temperament as unchanging and stable have been replaced by …

Abstract The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study began more than
four decades ago. Unusual at the time, it was founded as a multidisciplinary research …

Rationale Genetic and environmental influences on the development of alcohol and drug
dependence are equally important. Exposure to early life stress, that is unfortunately …

In this review, we evaluate four topics in the study of personality development where
discernible progress has been made since 1995 (the last time the area of personality …

There has been enormous progress in psychotherapy research. This has culminated in
recognition of several treatments that have strong evidence in their behalf. Even so, after …

Background In a seminal study of gene-environment interaction, childhood maltreatment
predicted antisocial behavior more strongly in male subjects carrying an MAOA promoter …

How does parenting affect relational aggression in children? The goal of the present series
of meta-analyses based on 48 studies (28,097 children) was to analyze and integrate the …

A major challenge in current biology is to understand the genetic basis of variation for
quantitative traits. We review the principles of quantitative trait locus mapping and …

OBJECTIVE: Adverse childhood experiences are associated with significant functional
impairment and life lost in adolescence and adulthood. This study identified relationships …