[lbo-talk] Don't Mess With Mom

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Fri Jun 25 00:05:29 PDT 2004


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, DeborahSRogers wrote:


> The nature/nurture debate continues.
>
> - Deborah R.

No, it's been discarded. The most common viewpoint in psych nowadays is the heredity and environmental factors interact to produce psychological traits and disorders. It's a typical pattern: people get all worked up about the "mice pup" research, then we do careful research with humans (e.g., twin studies, adoption studies), and we find that biological factors influence but do not ultimately determine complex human characteristics (e.g., alcoholism, sexual orientation, IQ, personality traits, schizophrenia, mood disorders, and so on.)

Miles



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list