FL Schmidt - Archives of Scientific Psychology, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Governments often base social intervention programs on studies done by psychologists and other social scientists. Often these studies fail to mention other research suggesting that …
The associations between higher intelligence test scores from early life and later good health, fewer illnesses, and longer life are recent discoveries. Researchers are mapping the …
Polygenic scores can be used to distil the knowledge gained in genome-wide association studies for prediction of health, lifestyle, and psychological factors in independent samples …
Observed genetic associations with educational attainment may be due to direct or indirect genetic influences. Recent work highlights genetic nurture, the potential effect of parents' …
The enduring influence of early life stress (ELS) on brain and cognitive development has been widely acknowledged, yet the precise mechanisms underlying this association remain …
Similarities between parent and offspring are widespread in psychology; however, shared genetic variants often confound causal inference for offspring outcomes. A polygenic score …
Abstract Families transmit genes and environments across generations. When parents' genetics affect their children's environments, these two modes of inheritance can become …
S Selzam, PS Dale, RK Wagner… - Scientific Studies of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
It is now possible to create individual-specific genetic scores, called genome-wide polygenic scores (GPS). We used a GPS for years of education (EduYears) to predict reading …
Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now …