Rebellious teens? Genetic and environmental influences on the social attitudes of adolescents

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1392-1408

  Abrahamson, Amy C ^d   Baker, Laura A ^c   Caspi, Avshalom ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040076455     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.6.1392     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Altemeyer, B. (1988). Enemies of freedom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
2. Alwin, D. F., Cohen, R. L., & Newcomb, T. M. (1991). Political attitudes over the life span: The Bennington women after fifty years. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
3. Bouchard, T. J., Jr., Segal, N. L., Tellegen, A., McGue, M., Keyes, M., & Krueger, R. (2001, July). Evidence for the construct validity and heritability of the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale: A reared-apart twins study of social attitudes. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Twin Studies, London.
4. DeFries, J. C., Plomin, R., & Fulker, D. W. (1994). Nature and nurture during middle childhood. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
5. D'Onofrio, B. M., Eaves, L. J., Murrelle, L., Maes, H. H., & Spilka, B. (1999). Understanding biological and social influences on religious affiliation, attitudes, and behaviors: A behavior genetic perspective. Journal of Personality, 67, 953-984.
6. Donovan, J. E., & Jessor, R. (1985). Structure of problem behavior in adolescence and young adulthood. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 53, 890-904.
7. Eagly, A., & Chaiken, S. (1993). The psychology of attitudes. New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Jovanovich.
8. Eaves, L. J., & Eysenck, H. J. (1974). Genetics and the development of social attitudes. Nature, 249, 288-289.
9. Eaves, L. J., Eysenck, H. J., & Martin, N. G. (1989). Genes, culture and personality: An empirical approach. London: Academic Press.
10. Eaves, L., Martin, N., Heath, A., Schieken, R., Meyer, J., Silberg, J., et al. (1997). Age changes in the causes of individual differences in conservatism. Behavior Genetics, 27, 121-124.
11. Feng, D., & Baker, L. (1994). Spouse similarity in attitudes, personality and psychological well-being. Behavior Genetics, 24, 357-364.
12. Fulker, D. W. (1988). Genetic and cultural transmission in human behavior. In B. S. Wei, J. Eisen, M. Goodman, & G. Namkoong (Eds.), Proceedings of the second International Conference on Quantitative Genetics (pp. 318-340). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
13. Harris, J. R. (1998). The nurture assumption: Why children turn out the way they do. New York: Simon & Schuster.
14. Hovland, C. I., Janis, I. L., & Kelley, H. H. (1953). Communication and persuasion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
15. Krueger, R. F., Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., Bleske, A., & Silva, P. A. (1998). Assortative mating for antisocial behavior: Developmental and methodological implications. Behavior Genetics, 28, 173-186.
16. Loehlin, J. C., & Nichols, R. C. (1976). Heredity, environment, and personality: A study of 850 sets of twins. Austin: University of Texas Press.
17. Lykken, D. T., & Tellegen, A. (1993). Is human mating adventitious or the result of lawful choice? A twin study of mate selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 56-68.
18. Martin, N. G., Eaves, L. J., Jardine, R., Heath, A. C., Feingold, L. F., & Eysenck, H. J. (1986). Transmission of social attitudes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 83, 4364-4368.
19. McCourt, K., Bouchard, T. J., Lykken, D. T., Tellegen, A., & Keyes, M. (1999). Authoritarianism revisited: Genetic and environmental influence examined in twins reared apart and together. Personality and Individual Differences, 27, 985-1014.
20. McGue, M., Bouchard, T. J., Iacono, W. G., & Lykken, D. T. (1993). Behavioral genetics of cognitive ability: A life-span perspective. In R. Plomin & G. E. McClearn (Eds.), Nature, nurture, and psychology (pp. 59-76). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
21. Neale, M. C. (1997). Mx: Statistical modeling (4th ed.). Richmond: Department of Psychiatry, University of Virginia.
22. Neale, M. C., Walters, E. E., Eaves, L. J., Maes, H. H., & Kendler, K. S. (1994). Multivariate genetic analysis of twin-family data on fears: Mx models. Behavior Genetics, 24, 119-139.
23. Olson, J. M., Vernon, P. A., Harris, J. A., & Jang, K. L. (2001). The heritability of attitudes: A study of twins. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 845-860.
24. Phillips, K., & Fulker, D. W. (1989). Quantitative genetic analysis of longitudinal trends in adoptive designs with application to IQ in the Colorado Adoption Project. Behavior Genetics, 19, 621-658.
25. Plomin, R., & DeFries, J. C. (1985). Origins of individual differences in infancy. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
26. Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., McClearn, G. E., & McGuffin, P. (2001). Behavioral genetics (4th Ed.). New York: Worth.
27. Plomin, R., Fulker, D. W., Corley, R., & DeFries, J. C. (1997). Nature, nurture, and cognitive development from 1 to 16 years. Psychological Science, 8, 442-447.
28. Posner, S. F., Baker, L., Heath, A., & Martin, N. G. (1996). Social contact, social attitudes, and twin similarity. Behavior Genetics, 26, 123-133.
29. Rajecki, D. W. (1990). Attitudes: Theories and advances (2nd ed.). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
30. Rowe, D. C. (1994). The limits of family influence. New York: Guilford Press.
31. Scarr, S., & McCartney, K. (1983). How people make their own environments: A theory of genotype → environment effects. Child Development, 54, 424-435.
32. Scarr, S., & Weinberg, R. (1981). The transmission of authoritarianism in families: Genetic resemblance in social-political attitudes. In S. Scarr (Ed.), Race, social class, and individual differences (pp. 399-427). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
33. Tellegen, A. (1982). Brief manual for the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire. Unpublished manuscript, University of Minnesota.
34. Tesser, A. (1993). The importance of heritability in psychological research: The case of attitudes. Psychological Review, 100, 129-142.
35. Tesser, A., & Crelia, R. (1994). Attitude heritability and attitude reinforcement: A test of the niche building hypothesis. Personality and Individual Differences, 16, 571-577.
36. Tesser, A., Whitaker, D., Martin, L., & Ward, D. (1998). Attitude heritability, attitude change and physiological responsivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 24, 89-96.
37. Truett, K. R., Eaves, L. J., Meyer, J. M., Heath, A. C., & Martin, N. G. (1992). Religion and education as mediators of attitudes: A multivariate analysis. Behavior Genetics, 22, 43-62.
38. Waller, N. G., Kojetin, B. A., Bouchard, T. J., & Lykken, D. T. (1990). Genetic and environmental influences on religious interests, attitudes and values: A study of twins reared apart and together. Psychological Science, 1, 138-142.
39. Wilson, G. D., & Patterson, J. R. (1970). Manual for the Conservatism Scale. London: Academic Press.