Infancy to Early Childhood

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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Developmental Change

Robert N. Emde John K. Hewitt(Editor)

Oxford University Press Inc

Published on 17. May 2001

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414 pages

978-0-19-513012-6 (ISBN)

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Behavioural genetics is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field which attempts to explain the influence of genetic and environmental factors on behaviour through the lifespan. The preferred investigative technique for teasing out the differences between genetics and the environment is the longitudinal twin study. This book is the first complete publication from the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study (MALTS) that is by far the most ambitious and comprehensive logitudinal twin study to date. The goal of such an in-depth study was merely not to provide thorough descriptions of developmental change between the ages of one and three years, but to offer an original theoretical framework that explains how change occurs in different domains and how genetics and the environment influence those changes. In fact, this rigorous study will set the agenda for developmental psychology and behavioural genetics for decades to come.

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"The first published volume resulting from the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study, a collaboration of developmental scientists and behavioral geneticists. They offer an original theoretical framework explaining how changes occur in different domains, and how genetics and the environment influence those changes. Among their findings are that development is multifaceted, genetic and environmental influences vary in magnitude and type depending on the behavior, and
genetic factors largely account for continuity while non-shared environmental factors account for change."--SciTech Book News
"In this first volume resulting from the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study (MLTS), Emde and Hewitt adeptly organized reams of data comparing genetic and environmental influences on developmental changes into six parts and 25 succinct chapters. . .Despite the many contributors to this work (most respected in the field) and the highly technical nature of some of the analyses, the book is a superb illustration of how sound research is conducted and written about.
Graduate students through professionals."--CHOICE
"The first published volume resulting from the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study, a collaboration of developmental scientists and behavioral geneticists. They offer an original theoretical framework explaining how changes occur in different domains, and how genetics and the environment influence those changes. Among their findings are that development is multifaceted, genetic and environmental influences vary in magnitude and type depending on the behavior, and
genetic factors largely account for continuity while non-shared environmental factors account for change."--SciTech Book News
"In this first volume resulting from the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study (MLTS), Emde and Hewitt adeptly organized reams of data comparing genetic and environmental influences on developmental changes into six parts and 25 succinct chapters. . .Despite the many contributors to this work (most respected in the field) and the highly technical nature of some of the analyses, the book is a superb illustration of how sound research is conducted and written about.
Graduate students through professionals."--CHOICE

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Part I. Introduction
1: Robert N. Emde: The Dynamics of Development in a Unique Multidisciplinary Collaboration
2: John K. Hewitt et al: The Twin Method: What We Can Learn from a Longitudinal Study
3: Joann L. Robinson et al: The Conduct of the Study: sample and Procedures
Part II. Temperament
4: Jerome Kagan: The Structure of Teperament
5: Beth Manke et al: Extremes Analyses of Observed Teperament Dimensions
6: Kimberly J. Saudino and Stacey S. Cherny: Parental Ratings of Teperament in Twins
7: Kimberly J. Saudino and Stacey S. Cherny: Sources of Continuity and Change in Observed Temperament
8: Jerome Kagan and Kimberly J. Saudino: Behavioral inhibition and Related Temperaments
Part III Emotion
9: Joan L. Robinson and Robert N. Emde: Emotional Development in the Twin Study
10: Robert N. Emde et al: Reactions to Restraint and Anger-Related Expressions during the Second Year
11: Carolyn Zahn-Waxler et al: Empathy and Prosocial Patterns in Young MZ and DZ Twins: Development and Genetic and Environmental Influences
12: Joann L. Robinson et al: Dispositional Cheerfulness: Early Genetic and Environmental Influences
Part IV Cognition
13: David W. Fulker and Robert Plomin: Cognition Development, Congiative Abilities, and Modularity
14: Steven M. Wilson et al: Experimental Assessment of Specific Cognitive Abilities during the Second Year of Life
15: Stacey S. Cherny et al: Continuity and Change in General Cognitive Ability from 14 to 36 Months
16: Susan Young et al: Language and Cognition
Part V. Environmental Contributions and Cross-Domain Integrations
17: Robert N. Emde: Context and Specificity of Individual Differences and Their Origins
18: Shirly McGuire and Anne-Catherine Roch-Levecq: Mothers' Perceptions of Differential Treatment of Infat Twins
19: Joann L. Robinson: Relationship Context as a Moderator of Sources of Individual Differences in Empathic Development
20: Stacey S. Cherny: The Development of Observed Shyness from 14 to 20 Months: Shyness in Context
21: Charles Martin and Scott Hershberger: Perinatal Effects on General Cognitive Ability, Weight, Height and Temperament
22: Marcie L. Chambers et al: Height, Weight, and Body Mass Index
23: Lorraine F. Kubicek: Temperament, Mental Development, and Language in the Transition from Infancy to Early Childhood
24: Stephanie Schmitz et al: Early Predictors of Problem Behavior at Age Four
Part VI Major Themes and Conclusions
25: Robert Plomin et al: An Experiment in Collaborative Science
Index

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