The Role of Emergence in Genetically Informed Relationships Research: A Methodological Analysis.

Abstract excerpt

This paper provides a critical analysis of genetically informed research on relationships, with an emphasis on relationships among unrelated individuals (e.g., spouses). To date, research in this area has used traditional behavioral genetic frameworks to either partition the variance in relationship-related outcomes into genetic and environmental components, or to examine gene-environment interplay between...

Topics

• Genetics, Behavioral
• Genome, Human
• Humans
• Interpersonal Relations
• Models, Genetic
• Phenotype
• Research