Recently added articles from The Journal of Genetic Psychology:
Biosocial influences on fraudulent behaviors.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... A WEALTH OF BEHAVIORAL GENETIC RESEARCH has estimated genetic and environmental influences on a wide range of antisocial behaviors. The results of these studies have provided an impressive amount of empirical evidence revealing that all antisocial phenotypes are moderately to strongly ...
Bullying and victimization in adolescence: concurrent and stable roles and psychological health symptoms.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS, research on bullying has focused on the causes and extent of the phenomenon and has examined various factors that can influence the problem, such as personality features and cognitive, emotional, familial, and contextual factors. A controversial area of ...
Adolescents' and adults' internal models of conditional strategies for object conflict.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... RESEARCHERS OFTEN ACCEPT THAT children's past experiences in various social and emotional contexts are likely to have an effect on their future interactions. A vital question concerns the mechanism by which past experience carries over to present behavior. This is a difficult problem in ...
Is perceived motor competence a constraint in children's action planning?(BRIEF REPORT)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ONE OF THE INITIAL STEPS IN PLANNING reaching movements is to derive a perceptual estimate of the object's distance and location relative to the body. Although the research on children is limited, there are indications that, similar to adults, children exhibit the tendency to overestimate ...
Direct and indirect effects of birth order on personality and identity: support for the null hypothesis.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... A RESURGENCE OF INTEREST IN THE ROLE that birth order plays in personality development occurred with the publication of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives (Sulloway, 1996). Born to Rebel removed the theoretical underpinnings of birth-order effects from a ...