Some thoughts on essence placeholders, interactionism, and heritability: Reply to Haslam (2011) and Turkheimer (2011)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 829-833

  Dar Nimrod, Ilan ^a   Heine, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Free will; Gene by environment (G E) interaction; Genetic essentialism; Genetic etiology; Heritability coefficients

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE;

FEMALE; GENETIC DETERMINISM; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 80052254291     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024678     Document Type: Note

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