Children who are impulsive and exuberant can be challenging. Recent research speaks to both the nature and nurture aspects of ...

She grew up with the same genetics but perhaps not quite the same environment as I did and though I instilled respect, ...

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 ...

Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton ...

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 ...