- personality.
Hereditarians believe in the
power of
genetics to
explain human character traits and
solve human social and
political problems.
Hereditarians adopt...
-
depressed mother, is at risk for
developing depression. On the
other hand, a
hereditarian theory would hold that
depression risk in an
offspring is influenced...
-
Jerome Edwin Hirsch (September 20, 1922 – May 3, 2008) was an
American psychologist known for his
pioneering work in
behavior genetics, and for his advocacy...
-
Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from
Ancient Gr**** εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well', and -γενής (genḗs) 'come into being, growing') is a set of
beliefs and practices...
- Bowler,
Peter J. (1989). The
Mendelian Revolution: The
Emergence of
Hereditarian Concepts in
Modern Science and Society.
Johns Hopkins University Press...
- Bowler,
Peter J. (1989). The
Mendelian Revolution: The
Emergence of
Hereditarian Concepts in
Modern Science and Society. Baltimore, Maryland:
Johns Hopkins...
-
social psychology at the
University of Michigan. The book
challenges the
hereditarians'
argument that IQ is
entirely or
almost entirely heritable, and argues...
-
development of
several mental tests by
Robert Yerkes, who
worked with
major hereditarians of
American psychometrics—including Terman, Goddard—to
write the test...
-
fitness with
social and
economic position, and they also were hard
hereditarians,
dubious of the
Lamarckian inheritance clung to by progressives. But...
- contributors, publishers, and
board of
directors espouse academic hereditarianism. The
publication is
widely criticized for its
extremist politics, anti-semitic...
