For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical ...

PEOPLE OR PLACE: Samuel Putnam delivers his inaugural lecture as an endowed chair of social sciences in Mills Hall. Putnam ...

“Professor Putnam is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on a fascinating question of how biological and ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who ...

There’s an age-old debate in child psychology: nature versus nurture. “Nature” argues that behavioral traits, such as our personalities, are determined by our genetic makeup. “Nurture” argues that ...

Identical twins who were raised apart may have IQ differences similar to those of total strangers, according to new research.

This is the second post in a series. Read the first post here. Social scientists today assume that left-right (or, in the U.S., liberal-conservative) political orientation, like virtually every other ...

Saoirse Ronan's newest movie, Bad Apples, is a gripping and uproarious satire that poses important questions about nature versus nurture and how we frequently hide issues beneath the surface to ...