▪ Abstract The conceptual and methodological issues involved in the study of gene-
environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE) are discussed in historical context …

From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how
growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain …

Summary Problem‐Behavior Theory is a social‐psychological framework which helps to
explain the nature and development of alcohol abuse, drug misuse and other problem …

As adults we believe that our knowledge of our own psychological states is substantially
different from our knowledge of the psychological states of others: First-person knowledge …

The present commentary gives a brief overview of the person-oriented and variable-oriented
approaches, how they are commonly used in longitudinal research, and what one should …

In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of
developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture …

To what extent are human beings capable of changing their physical characteristics and
behavioural patterns over the course of their lives? This question has engaged scientists for …

This book constitutes the fourth iteration of lifestyle theory, which began with publication of
The Criminal Lifestyle (Sage) in 1990, and continued with publication of Criminal Belief …

Eight years ago, four psychologists with varying backgrounds but a common in terest in the
impact of environmental stress on behavior and health met to plan a study of the effects of …

Genes do not by themselves produce structural or functional characteristics. Variables within
the organism (eg, cells, tissues) and extraorganism contextual variables reciprocally interact …