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Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality 1st Edition

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Taking the nature vs. nurture debate to a new level, this fascinating, comprehensive journey into the world of genetic research and molecular biology offers a fresh assessment of the work that has been done in this relatively new field during the last half century-work that has demolished common assumptions and overturned existing theories about what determines our personality and behavior.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0415924944
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0415924948
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Routledge
  5. Publication date
    August 9, 2021
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.75 x 1 x 9.5 inches
  8. Print length
    320 pages
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  • Joan Cacciatore Mazza
    5.0 out of 5 stars In a word: Fascinating!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2000
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    William Wright tackles the link between genes and behavior in plain language. He makes it clear that as human beings with consciousness and choice, genes do not dictate behavior, but contribute to it. He separates the politics of the fear regarding genetic research from what we know and how we know it and how we use new information. He also discusses how researchers might avoid some methodological hazards or the accusation of fudged data (document everything!).
    He says, "Most scientists take the position that knowledge is neutral, value free; the use to which it is put might be good or bad, beneficial or hurtful to society in general. First, learn as much as we can, then let society decide how new information will be used. The opponents of behavioral genetics have consistently feared such a climate of unfettered inquiry." (p. 215)
    Much of this book focuses on twin studies, but Wright also describes some of the research on hormone levels and their effects. He attempts to tease out the variables of nature and nurture on specific behaviors such as intelligence, depression, and a tendency toward violence.
    My reading of this book sparked a frenzy of my reading other books on twins, homosexuality, and other research on the links between genes, environment, and behavior. I highly recommend this book.
    ~~Joan Mazza, author of Dream Back Your Life; Dreaming Your Real Self; Things That Tick Me Off; and Exploring Your Sexual Self.
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  • Douglas Winslow Cooper
    4.0 out of 5 stars BORN THAT WAY: Not Blank Slates
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2019
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    Five decades or so ago, psychology students were being taught that humans were born without instincts, unlike other animals, and that their minds were blank slates, to be written on by their parents and their general environments. This view was as uniformly held as have been other intellectual fads, take your pick.

    William Wright, a journalist, has written an analytical history of the period, up to the late 1990s, during which the gospel according to the environmentalists was challenged by biologists and psychologists who found strong evidence for the influence of genes on a person's abilities and attitudes. Animal breeders had known the strength of genetic endowments for centuries, but for this to be accepted as true for humans awaited the research on identical twins reared apart at the University of Minnesota, going well beyond similar studies done decades earlier in Europe.

    Professionals with personal and political stakes worked feverishly to suppress the genetic interpretation of variation among individual humans and among groups, especially when it came to intelligence and race and ethnicity. The personal and political ramifications are major; the opportunity for encouraging dangerous interventions is scary.

    Wright makes the case that important aspects of ability and tastes are roughly equally influenced by our genes and the non-genetic factors called "environment," by nature and nurture. We should be aware that some of our impulses are not the results of our rational analysis, making personal responsibility hard to gauge. We can celebrate our strengths and can be alert to our shortcomings and should extend a more generous evaluation of others by recognizing the difficulty of overcoming some of our pre-wired, hard-wired inclinations.

    Not all our human deficiencies are likely to be susceptible to improvement of the environment in which we are reared and reach maturity. Wright cites the wisdom of the adage that says that parents with only one child think their child's development was determined by the environment they created, but parents with more than one child attribute the variation among them to the powerful randomness of genetic inheritance.

    I'd give the book five stars if it had results of research more recent than the late 1990s. Still well worth reading, it has somewhat changed my view of myself and others.

    Beware the competitive genes that evolution has endowed you with!
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  • C. Moseley
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Alluring Introduction to a Blinding Science
    Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2005
    The developing understanding of the human genome will bring us the most dramatic medical changes that humans have ever seen and this book serves as more than a solid introduction to the science which is and has been developing at a blinding pace. Psychological theory of the last 60 years has been turned on its head as biologists offer genetic evidence of inherited traits that go far beyond eye and hair color and into wild, specific intricacies that definitely will blow your mind if you haven't read other texts dealing with this exciting topic. Wright offers a comprehensive and thorough view of what has been the battlefield between behavioral geneticists and environmentalists - the conclusion, as Wright and his contemporaries see it: nature vs nurture is no longer of any consequence, but nuture operates through nature. This is a critical distinction made by Wright numerous times through the book which indicates that rather than being condemned by our genes, our understanding of them helps us eliminate the environmental attributes that also play a role in our development. Very highly recommended. If your thirst for behavioral genetics isn't sated after reading this, I recommend Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene.
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  • Peter Thompson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and Highly Readable
    Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2000
    Unlike other scientific books related to psychology and behavioral genetics, Mr. Wright's book does not bog down in "techno-jargon". He does a superb job at simplifying and codifying years of legitimate scienctific research regarding the genetic nudges of behavior. Having spent years myself as a psychology graduate student combing the same research, Wright is on target. The two most interesting aspects of his book is that he actually interviewed,face to face, prominent researchers in this field. Moreover, Wright adeptly outlined the history behind this turbulent subject. He put into words what I have observed for years; that some well-educated psychologists can be blinded to convincing scientific evidence. It is courageous of Mr. Wright to actually name the researchers which might have ulterior motives not to examine the evidence with an objective eye. In the end, "Born that Way", may not be the definitive book on behavioral genetics. However, it is an outstanding reference for people who wish to know more about where psychology has been and where it will soon be grounded. I certainly recommend this book to psychology students.
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  • Jenny
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2018
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    fascinating subject brought to life in an easily accessible way
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