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The Question That Must Be Asked: Is Behavioral Genetics a Null Field?

2023-10-29

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<p>For more than half a century, the field of behavioral genetics has touted studies claiming that differences in personality, intelligence and susceptibility to psychiatric disorders have a significant genetic component. Despite this long history of positive findings, however, little of substance has been garnered regarding how genes influence a particular trait, or by what mechanism. Moreover, the field has not...

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Literature Corpus work: 1b274942-719b-5c08-88c0-4741b2b25e25
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wgjph

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