Behavior Genetics Principles: Perspectives in Development, Personality, and Psychopathology presents work that addresses both historical and novel approaches to the study of genetic and environmental influences on behavior. Contributors to this volume use behavior genetics as a means for understanding the etiology of mental illness as well as normal development. They ask: what genes predispose a person to develop a specific personality trait? What about an inclination to a psychological disorder? How do environmental factors enhance or mute genetic factors? Do they regulate inherited individual differences in behavior and personality throughout a lifetime? Behavior Genetics Principles explores the many connections between genes, personality, development, and psychopathology. It focuses on research influenced by Irving I. Gottesman, a pioneer in behavioral genetics research. As a mentor and a colleague, Gottesman has worked to examine the role of genes and environmental factors using both traditional and novel study designs and analytic methods. This stimulating volume, by colleagues who have helped shape the field of behavioral genetics, presents cutting edge work that carries on his legacy. This volume should interest researchers, practitioners, and students alike.
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Professor Gottesman holds the Irving and Dorothy Bernstein Professorship in Adult Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School and is also Senior Fellow in the Department of Psychology, having formally retired in 2001 from the University of Virginia as Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology and and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (London). Among his honors are the Lieber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research from NARSAD (2008), the Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator prize for Serious Mental Illness (2008), Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology (American Psychological Foundation,2007, and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (American Psychological Association, 2001). He was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a Hungarian-Romanian Jewish immigrant family and had his head start at Miles Standish Elementary School followed by an elite education in the public schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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"A certain mother habitually rewards her small son with ice cream after he eats his spinach. What additional information would you need to be able to predict whether the child will: a. Come to love or hate spinach, b. Love or hate ice cream, or c. Love or hate mother?"This quote from Gregory Bateson's preface to his Steps to An Ecology of Mind (1972) returns to haunt a fine chapter by Eric Turkheimer, Spinach and Ice cream: Why Social Science is So Difficult. The chapter is one of fourteen that summarize the current status of behavioral genetic research in development, personality, and psychopathology as they celebrate the career of one of the truly outstanding psychologists of our time, Irving I. Gottesman. If any career can be said to be the defining touchstone of research into the genetics of mental disorder, especially schizophrenia, over the past half-century, it is that of Gottesman. Mention the genetics of schizophrenia to informed behavioral scientists anywhere on the globe, and Irv Gottesman is the first name that will come to mind. Since the publication of his Schizophrenia Genesis (1991), now dated because of its publisher's indolence in supporting a revision, the same can be said of many thousands of educated laypersons. These chapters were initially prepared as presentations for a gathering of his colleagues and former students who are now themselves accomplished investigators in the field of behavior genetics, organized by the book's editor, Lisabeth DiLalla, in Minneapolis in June, 2001, on the occasion of Gottesman's retirement from the University of Virginia, and his return to his doctoral alma mater, the University of Minnesota (UM), after a forty year (and counting) career. It is a tribute to Gottesman's influence that the contributions DiLalla invited and assembled here are much longer on the meat of good thinking, research, news, and informed outlook than on the soft flesh of praise and genteel honorifics. And for the nonspecialist reader like myself, there are some big surprises. For example, Thomas Bouchard, et al. report and summarize research on the genetics of social attitudes. (Recall that Bouchard is the principal investigator of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart [MISTRA], a study that commanded worldwide attention in news reports of amazing similarities of twins separated at birth or shortly after and reunited as adults at UM. For example, the Jim twins, reunited 39 years after their separation at 4 weeks: both men had performed well at school at math but struggled with spelling, enjoyed mechanical drawing and carpentry, had first wives named "Linda" and second wives named "Betty," named their sons "James Allan," owned dogs names "Toy," got headaches at the same time of the day, drove the same color and model of Chevrolet, chain smoked Salem cigarettes, bit their fingernails, and vacationed in the same spot each year.) Of course, the heritability of things like IQ and personality traits such as introversion-extroversion have been known for some time, but social attitudes? The things one learns at mother's knee? Yes. Such attitudes as authoritarianism, religiousness, even political conservatism are shown to be strongly influenced by genetic factors. And there are other surprises that await the reader. The book closes on a brief warm note by Gottesman himself, reflecting on his career, a few of his influences and colleagues, behavioral genetics and human rights, and the future. A perfect book? No. I would have liked to have had a complete list of Gottesman's publications included. However, given their number, such a list would have added considerably to the length of the book.
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"A certain mother habitually rewards her small son with ice cream after he eats his spinach. What additional information would you need to be able to predict whether the child will: a. Come to love or hate spinach, b. Love or hate ice cream, or c. Love or hate mother?"This quote from Gregory Bateson's preface to his Steps to An Ecology of Mind (1972) returns to haunt a fine chapter by Eric Turkheimer, Spinach and Ice cream: Why Social Science is So Difficult. The chapter is one of fourteen that summarize the current status of behavioral genetic research in development, personality, and psychopathology as they celebrate the career of one of the truly outstanding psychologists of our time, Irving I. Gottesman. If any career can be said to be the defining touchstone of research into the genetics of mental disorder, especially schizophrenia, over the past half-century, it is that of Gottesman. Mention the genetics of schizophrenia to informed behavioral scientists anywhere on the globe, and Irv Gottesman is the first name that will come to mind. Since the publication of his Schizophrenia Genesis (1990), now dated because of its publisher's indolence in supporting a revision, the same can be said of many thousands of educated laypersons. These chapters were initially prepared as presentations for a gathering of his colleagues and former students who are now themselves accomplished investigators in the field of behavior genetics, organized by the book's editor, Lisabeth DiLalla, in Minneapolis in June, 2001, on the occasion of Gottesman's retirement from the University of Virginia, and his return to his doctoral alma mater, the University of Minnesota (UM), after a forty year (and counting) career. It is a tribute to Gottesman's influence that the contributions DiLalla invited and assembled here are much longer on the meat of good thinking, research, news, and informed outlook than on the soft flesh of praise and genteel honorifics. And for the nonspecialist reader like myself, there are some big surprises. For example, Thomas Bouchard, et al. report and summarize research on the genetics of social attitudes. (Recall that Bouchard, is the principal investigator of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart [MISTRA], a study that commanded worldwide attention in news reports of amazing similities of twins separated at birth or shortly after and reunited as adults at UM. For example, the Jim twins, reunited 39 years after their separation at 4 weeks: both men had performed well at school at math but struggled with spelling, enjoyed mechanical drawing and carpentry, had first wives named "Linda" and second wives named "Betty," named their sons "James Allan," owned dogs names "Toy," got headaches at the same time of the day, drove the same color and model of Chevrolet, chain smoked Salem cigarettes, bit their fingernails, and vacationed in the same spot each year.) Of course, the heritability of things like IQ and personality traits such as introversion-extroversion have been known for some time, but social attitudes? The things one learns at mother's knee? Yes. Such attitudes as authoritarianism, religiousness, even political conservatism are shown to be strongly influenced by genetic factors. And there are other surprises that await the reader. The book closes on a brief warm note by Gottesman himself, reflecting on his career, a few of his influences and colleagues, behavioral genetics and human rights, and the future. A perfect book? No. I would have liked to have had a complete list of of Gottesman's publications included. However, given their number, such a list would have added considerably to the length of the book.
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This review is from: Behavior Genetics Principles: Perspectives in Development, Personality, and Psychopathology (Decade of Behavior) (Hardcover)
Knowledgeably compiled and professionally edited by psychologist and academician Lisabeth DiLalla (Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University) Behavior Genetics Principles: Perspectives In Development, Personality, And Psychopathology is a compilation of contributions by experts in the field of behavior genetic research. Behavior Genetics Principles is a superbly organized and presented introduction to the cause/effect connections between genes, personality development, and the frontiers of research into genetically based psychopathologies. Behavior Genetics Principles is a seminal work and strongly recommended for academic library collections and supplemental reading lists in the fields of genetics and human behavior.
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