Biologically based theories of personality have always been shaped by the available
technologies of neuroscience. More recently, advances in noninvasive brain mapping have …

This is the first book to provide an overview of current research using cutting-edge genetic
and neuroimaging methods in the study of personality. Integrating compelling lines of inquiry …

Adolfsson, & Svrakic, 1996; Hamer, 1996). What behavioral genetics has not been able to
determine is how many different genes are in-volved in these traits and what they do in the …

Personality neuroscience is the study of persistent psychological individual differences,
typically in the general population, using neuroscientific methods. It has the potential to shed …

The first candidate gene studies of human personality promised much but, in the fifteen
years since their publication, have delivered little in the way of clear evidence for the …

In the 4th century, St. Augustine of Hippo used the Biblical parable of Jacob and Esau, twin
brothers who displayed remarkably different characters, to disprove prevailing notions that …

The surge in molecular approaches to psychiatric disorders has spilled over into normal
personality traits, with a flurry of interest, publicity, and hopeful prognostications. But …

Human behaviours and experiences are generated by biological processes, primarily within
the brain. On this basis, we may assume that the regularities in these behaviours and …

From birth through old age, individual human beings are at least somewhat predictable.
Some 5-year-olds are consistently more fearful or more talkative than others, and so are …

In the wake of the recent announcements that the human genome has been mapped, efforts
to identify the genetic loci underlying personality function will grow and intensify. Much …