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Article: The Relationship Code: Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development
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- American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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DAVID REISS WiTH JENAE M. NEIDERHISER, E. MAVIS HETHERINGTON AND ROBERT PLOMIN: The Relationship Code: Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000,532 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-674-00054-4.
This book is of fundamental importance in biobehavioral sciences. The authors, all distinguished research scientists with years of experience in genetic and social studies, advance the nature-nurture debate-the downfall of so many studies in the past, which have attempted to posit either biology or psychology as the more dominant influence. As is so often the case, if one asks the wrong question, one is bound to get the wrong answer.
The ...