Education, smoking, and cohort change: Forwarding a multidimensional theory of the environmental moderation of genetic effects

R Wedow, M Zacher, BM Huibregtse… - American …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Sociologists interested in the effects of genes on complex social outcomes claim
environmental conditions structure when and how genes matter, but they have only studied …

[HTML][HTML] Residential neighborhood greenery and children's cognitive development

A Reuben, L Arseneault, DW Belsky, A Caspi… - Social Science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Children who grow up in neighborhoods with more green vegetation show enhanced
cognitive development in specific domains over short timespans. However, it is unknown if …

Child-driven parenting: differential early childhood investment by offspring genotype

A Breinholt, D Conley - Social Forces, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A growing literature points to children's influence on parents' behavior, including parental
investments in children. Further, previous research has shown differential parental response …

Polygenic scores in developmental psychology: Invite genetics in, leave biodeterminism behind

L Raffington, T Mallard… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Polygenic scores offer developmental psychologists new methods for integrating genetic
information into research on how people change and develop across the life span. Indeed …

Predicting mid-life capital formation with pre-school delay of gratification and life-course measures of self-regulation

DJ Benjamin, D Laibson, W Mischel, PK Peake… - Journal of economic …, 2020 - Elsevier
How well do pre-school delay of gratification and life-course measures of self-regulation
predict mid-life capital formation? We surveyed 113 participants of the 1967–1973 Bing pre …

Schools as moderators of genetic associations with life course attainments: evidence from the WLS and add health

S Trejo, DW Belsky, JD Boardman… - Sociological …, 2018 - sociologicalscience.com
Genetic variants identified in genome-wide association studies of educational attainment
have been linked with a range of positive life course development outcomes. However, it …

Separating measured genetic and environmental effects: Evidence linking parental genotype and adopted child outcomes

BW Domingue, J Fletcher - Behavior genetics, 2020 - Springer
There has been widespread adoption of genome wide summary scores (polygenic scores)
as tools for studying the importance of genetics and associated life course mechanisms …

Why genome-wide associations with cognitive ability measures are probably spurious

K Richardson, MC Jones - New Ideas in Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Much time and effort, as well as funding, is being devoted to Genome Wide Association
Studies (GWAS) for identifying genetic causes of variation (single nucleotide polymorphisms …

Common polygenic variations for psychiatric disorders and cognition in relation to brain morphology in the general pediatric population

S Alemany, PR Jansen, RL Muetzel, N Marques… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective This study examined the relation between polygenic scores (PGSs) for 5 major
psychiatric disorders and 2 cognitive traits with brain magnetic resonance imaging …

Let's not do away with comprehensive cognitive assessments just yet

WJ Schneider, AS Kaufman - Archives of Clinical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We review rational and empirical reasons that comprehensive cognitive assessments are
useful sources of information in the evaluation and treatment of learning disabilities …