Social science genetics is concerned with understanding whether, how and why genetic
differences between human beings are linked to differences in behaviours and …

Social science and genetic science still have fairly little engagement with one another, but
the continued swift development of genetic science has certainly gained social scientists' …

Recent advances in molecular genetics have provided social scientists with new tools with
which to explore human behavior. By deploying genomic analysis, we can now explore long …

In this consensus report by a diverse group of academics who conduct and/or are concerned
about social and behavioral genomics (SBG) research, the authors recount the often‐ugly …

Assessing the impact of the social environment on health and disease is challenging. As
social effects are in part determined by the genetic makeup of social partners, they can be …

Behavior genetics studies how genetic differences among people contribute to differences in
their psychology and behavior. Here, I describe how the conclusions and methods of …

Accumulating evidence from behavioral genetics suggests that the vast majority of individual-
level outcomes of abiding sociological interest are genetically influenced to a substantial …

In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the
controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and …

Basic quantitative genetic models of human behavioral variation have made clear that
individual differences in behavior cannot be understood without acknowledging the …

Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and
situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that external social conditions …