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Separate Social Worlds of Siblings: The Impact of Nonshared Environment on Development
by E. Mavis Hetherington, David Reiss, Robert Plomin. 234 pgs.

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Preface

1: Behavioral Genetic Evidence for the Importance of Nonshared Environment

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

2: Estimating Nonshared Environment Using Sibling Discrepancy Scores

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3: The Separate Worlds of Teenage Siblings: An Introduction to the Study of the Nonshared Environment and Adolescent Development

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4: Young Children's Nonshared Experiences: A Summary of Studies in Cambridge and Colorado

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5: Sibling Relationships and Their Association With Parental Differential Treatment

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6: A Comparison of Across-Family and Within-Family Parenting Predictors of Adolescent Psychopathology and Suicidal Ideation

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7: Peers and Friends as Nonshared Environmental Influences

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8: Nonshared Environments and Heart Disease Risk: Concepts and Data for a Model of Coronary-Prone Behavior

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9: Sibling Similarity as an Individual Differences Variable: Within-Family Measures of Shared Environment

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Development, Genetics and Psychology
by Robert Plomin. 374 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

I Foundations of Developmental Behavioral Genetics

1: Introduction

2: Developmental Molecular Genetics

3: Genetic Change and Developmental Behavioral Genetics

Ii Developmental Behavioral Genetics and the Environment

4: Environmental Influences That Affect Development Are Not Shared by Members of a Family

5: Genotype-Environment Interaction

6: Genotype-Environment Correlation

7: Genes Affect Measures of the Environment

8: Genes Mediate Relationships Between Environment and Development

Iii Developmental Behavioral Genetics Throughout the Life Span

9: Infancy

10: Childhood

11: Adolescence

12: Adulthood

13: Senescence

14: Life-Span Developmental Behavioral Genetics

References

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The Study of Temperament: Changes, Continuities, and Challenges
by Robert Plomin, Judith Dunn. 182 pgs.

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Introduction

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1: The Measurement of Temperament

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2: Issues of Stability and Continuity in Temperament Research

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3: Continuity and Discontinuity of Temperament in Infancy and Early Childhood: A Psychometric Perspective

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4: The New York Longitudinal Study: From Infancy to Early Adult Life

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5: Temperamental Inhibition in Early Childhood

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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6: The EAS Approach to Temperament

7: Behavior-Genetics Research In Infant Temperament: The Louisville Twin Study

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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8: Children and Adolescents in Their Contexts: Tests of a Goodness of Fit Model

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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9: Changes in Associations Between Characteristics and Interactions

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10: Temperament, Development, and Culture

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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11: Clinical Interactions of Temperament: Transitions from Infancy to Childhood

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12: Commentary: Issues for Future Research

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Biological-Psychosocial Interactions in Early Adolescence (Chap. 4 "Behavioral Genetics and Development in Early Adolescence" by Robert Plomin and David W. Fulker)
by Richard M. Lerner, Terryl T. Foch. 394 pgs.

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1: Biological -- Psychosocial Interactions in Early Adolescence: an Overview of the Issues

Acknowledgment

References

I: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

2: Life-Span Perspective for Early Adolescence

Acknowledgments

References

3: The Nature of Biological Psychosocial Interactions: the Sample Case of Early Adolescence

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4: Behavioral Genetics and Development in Early Adolescence

Acknowledgments

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5: Biological and Psychosocial Interactions in Early Adolescence: A Sociobiological Perspective

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II: Reports from the Major Laboratories

6: Pubertal Processes and Girls' Psychological Adaptation

Acknowledgments

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7: Premature Adolescence: Neuroendocrine and Psychosocial Studies

Acknowledgments

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8: Pubertal Status and Psychosocial Development: Findings from the Early Adolescence Study

Acknowledgments

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9: Stanford Studies of Adolescence Using the National Health Examination Survey

Acknowledgments

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10: Familial Adaptation to Biological Change During Adolescence

Acknowledgments

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11: Early Adolescents' Physical Organismic Characteristics and Psychosocial Functioning: Findings from the Pennsylvania Early Adolescent Transitions Study (peats)

Acknowledgment

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12: Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability: Are They Related to Timing of Puberty?

Acknowledgments

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Appendix A. Meta-Analysis

13: Gonadal and Adrenal Hormone Correlates of Adjustment in Early Adolescence

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14: Predicting How A Child Will Cope with the Transition to Junior High School

Acknowledgments

References

Appendix II

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Individual Differences in Infancy: Reliability, Stability, Prediction (Chap. 17 "Individual Differences during the Second Year of Life: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study" by Robert Plomin, et. al.)
by John Colombo, Jeffrey Fagen. 484 pgs.

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I: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN INFANCY: OVERVIEWS

1: Developmental Models of Individual Differences

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2: Dynamical Systems and the Generation of Individual Differences

References

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

3: Genetic Contributions to Early Individual Differences

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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4: Analyzing Individual Differences in Development: Correlations and Cluster Analysis

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II: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN NEUROBEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT

5: Behavioral States in Infants: Individual Differences and Individual Analyses

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

6: Behavioral Assessment of the Neonate

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III: INFORMATION PROCESSING AND OUTPUT

7: Individual Differences in Infant Conditioning and Memory

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8: Individual Differences in Early Visual Attention: Fixation Time and Information Processing

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9: Infant Cognition: Individual Differences and Developmental Continuities

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10: Individual Differences in Sustained Attention during Infancy

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11: The Study of Individual Differences in Infants: Auditory Processing Measures

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12: Individual Differences in Infant Spatial Cognition

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13: The Process of Developmental Change in Infant Communicative Action: Using Dynamic Systems Theory to Study Individual Ontogenies

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

14: Continuity and Variation in Early Language Development

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IV: TEMPERAMENT AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

15: The Psychobiology of Infant Temperament

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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16: Questionnaire Approaches to the Study of Infant Temperament

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17: Individual Differences During the Second Year of Life: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Stability and Continuity in Mental Development: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives (Chap. 14 "Developmental Behavioral Genetics: Stability and Instability" by Robert Plomin)
by Marc H. Bornstein, Norman A. Krasnegor. 330 pgs.

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Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Empirical Studies of Stability and Continuity

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2: Stability in the Biosocial Development of the Child Born Preterm

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3: Infant Physical Status and Later Cognitive Development

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4: Achievement and Cognitive Correlates of Minor Physical Anomalies in Early Development

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5: A Reconceptualization of Prediction from Infant Test Scores

References

Acknowledgments

6: Differentiating the Risk for High-Risk Preterm Infants

Acknowledgments

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7: Transformations and Continuities: Intellectual Functioning in Infancy and Beyond

Acknowledgments

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8: Stability in Early Mental Development: from Attention and Information Processing in Infancy to Language and Cognition in Childhood

Acknowledgments

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9: Measuring Infant Intelligence: New Perspectives

Acknowledgments

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10: The Use of the Home Inventory in Longitudinal Studies of Child Development

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11: Developmental Plasticity and Predictability: Consequences of Ecological Change

Acknowledgments

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12: Can Early Interaction Predict? How and How Much?

Acknowledgments

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Part II: Commentary

13: Quantitative Methods and the Search for Continuity

14: Developmental Behavioral Genetics: Stability and Instability

Acknowledgments

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15: Intlligence, Stability, and Continuity: Changing Conceptions

Acknowledgments

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Separate Lives: Why Siblings Are So Different
by Robert Plomin, Judy Dunn . 210 pgs.

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Prologue

1: A Challenge

2: Differences in Nature

3: Differences in Nurture

4: The Impact of Parents

5: Sibling Influences

6: Beyond the Family

7: Chance

8: Implications

Notes

References

Index
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Nature, Nurture & Psychology (Chap. 24 "Nature and Nurture: Perspective and Prospective" by Robert Plomin)
by Robert Plomin, Gerald E. McClearn. 498 pgs.

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Nature Nurture & Psychology

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Contributors

Preface

Part One a Century of Nature and Nurture

Chapter 1 Evolution of the Nature— Nurture Issue in the History of Psychology

Chapter 2 Behavioral Genetics: the Last Century and the Next

Part Two the Genetics of Cognitive Abilities and Disabilities

Introduction

Chapter 3 Behavioral Genetics of Cognitive Ability: a Life-Span Perspective

Chapter 4 Continuity and Change in Cognitive Development

Chapter 5 Genetics of Specific Cognitive Abilities

Chapter 6 Genetics of Reading Disability

Chapter 7 Cognitive Abilities and Disabilities in Perspective

Part Three Nature—nurture and the Development of Personality

Introduction

Chapter 8 Intelligence and the Behavioral Genetics of Personality

Chapter 9 Genetic Perspectives on Personality

Chapter 10 the Idea of Temperament: Where Do We Go from Here?

Part Four Psychopathology: Genetic and Experiential Factors

Introduction

Chapter 11 Genes, Adversity, and Depression

Chapter 12 Origins of Schizophrenia: Past as Prologue

Chapter 13 from Proteins to Cognitions: the Behavioral Genetics of Alcoholism

Chapter 14 Autism: Syndrome Definition and Possible Genetic Mechanisms

Chapter 15 Genes, Personality, and Psychopathology: a Latent Class Analysis of Liability to Symptoms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Twins

Part Five Bridging the Nature—nurture Gap

Introduction

Chapter 16 Heredity, Environment, and the Question "How?"— a First Approximation

Chapter 17 Nature—nurture Issues in the Behavioral Genetics Context: Overcoming Barriers to Communication

Chapter 18 the Need for a Comprehensive New Environmentalism

Chapter 19 the Question "How?" Reconsidered

Chapter 20 the Nature—nurture Gap: What We Have Here is a Failure to Collaborate

Part Six the Interplay of Nature and Nurture: Redirecting the Inquiry

Introduction

Chapter 21 the New Quantitative Genetic Epidemiology of Behavior

Chapter 22 Genes and the Environment: Siblings and Synthesis

Chapter 23 Whither Behavioral Genetics?—a Developmental Psychopathological Perspective

Part Seven Summary

Chapter 24 Nature and Nurture: Perspective and Prospective

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Advances in the Psychology of Human Intelligence, Vol. 4 (Chap. 1 "The Nature and Nurture of Cognitive Abilities" by Robert Plomin)
by Robert J. Sternberg. 266 pgs.

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Contributors

Preface

Introduction

1: The Nature and Nurture of Cognitive Abilities

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

2: Hierarchical Models of Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities

CONCLUSION

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3: Intelligence and Task Novelty

INTRODUCTION

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4: Children's Understanding of the Nonobvious

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5: Analysis of Memory Performance in Terms of Memory Skill

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6: Spatial Abilities as Traits, Processes, and Knowledge

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Psychopathology in the Postgenomic Era, in Annual Review of Psychology
by Robert Plomin, Peter McGuffin. 23 pgs.

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Interaction in Human Development (Chap. 8 "Genotype-Environmental Interaction" by Cindy S. Bergeman and Robert Plomin")
by Marc H. Bornstein, Jerome S. Bruner. 312 pgs.

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Crosscurrents in Contemporary Psychology

Series Prologue

Contributors to This Volume

Contents

Introduction

1: On Interaction

1: Interaction in Cognitive Development

2: Peer Influences on Cognitive Development: Piagetian and Vygotskian Perspectives

3: Cognitive Development and Interaction

Conclusions

References

4: Social Interaction as Tutoring

Ii Interaction in Language Acquisition

5: Understanding Social Interaction and Language Acquisition; Sentences Are Not Enough

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

6: The Independence and Task-Specificity of Language

Conclusions

References

7: Reflections on Language, Development, and the Interactional Character of Talk-In-Interaction

Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgements

Iii Child-Caretaker Interaction

8: Genotype-Environment Interaction

9: The Co-Construction of Representational Activity During Social Interaction

Conclusions

References

10: Between Caretakers and Their Young: Two Modes of Interaction and Their Consequences for Cognitive Growth

Conclusions and Implications

Acknowledgments

References

Iv How to Formulate the Interaction Problem?

11: Developmental Contextualism and the Life-Span View of Person-Context Interaction

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

12: Lags and Logs: Statistical Approaches to Interaction

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

13: The Gene-Culture Connection: Interactions Across Levels of Analysis

Acknowledegements

References

About the Authors

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Exploring the Association between Anxiety and Conduct Problems in a Large Sample of Twins Aged 2-4, in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
by Thalia C. Eley, Alice M. Gregory, Robert Plomin. 11 pgs.

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Internalizing and Externalizing Expressions of Dysfunction, Vol. 2 (Chap. 6 "Quantitative Genetics and Developmental Psychopathology" by Robert Plomin, Richard Rende, and Michael Rutter)
by Dante Cicchetti, Sheree L. Toth. 312 pgs.

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1: A Developmental Perspective on Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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2: Emotional Regulation, Self-Control, and Psychopathology: The Role of Relationships in Early Childhood

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3: Longitudinal Studies of Active and Aggressive Preschoolers: Individual Differences in Early Behavior and in Outcome*

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

4: Conceptualizing Different Developmental Pathways To and From Social Isolation in Childhood

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5: Cerebral Asymmetry and Affective Disorders: A Developmental Perspective

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6: Quantitative Genetics and Developmental Psychopathology

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7: Emotional Socialization: Its Role in Personality and Developmental Psychopathology

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8: Aggression and Depression in Children: Comorbidity, Specificity, and Social Cognitive Processing

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9: What Can Primate Models of Human Developmental Psychopathology Model?

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