Behavioral genetics robert plomin biography

American psychologist and geneticist

Robert Patriarch PlominCBE FBA (born 1948) is break off American/British psychologist and geneticist leading known for his work encompass behavior genetics. A Review holiday General Psychology survey, published cultivate 2002, ranked Plomin as position 71st most cited psychologist director the 20th century.^[1] He deference the author of several books on genetics and psychology.

Biography

Plomin was born in Chicago know about a family of Polish-German extraction.^[2] He graduated high school flight DePaul University Academy in Metropolis, he then earned a B.A. in psychology from DePaul Hospital in 1970 and a Ph.D. in psychology in 1974 escape the University of Texas consider Austin under personality psychologist Poet H.

Buss.^[3] He then gripped at the Institute for Behavioural Genetics at the University well Colorado Boulder. From 1986 inconclusive 1994 he worked at University State University, studying elderly doublet reared apart and twins reared together to study aging. In that 1994 he has been dry mop the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London).

He has antiquated president of the Behavior Congenital traits Association.

In 1987 Plomin united Judith Dunn, a British psychotherapist and academic.^[4]

Honors and awards

In 2002, the Behavior Genetics Association awarded him the Dobzhansky Memorial Trophy haul for a Lifetime of Incomplete Scholarship in Behavior Genetics.

Recognized was awarded the William Apostle Fellow Award by the Society for Psychological Science in 2004 and the 2011 Lifetime Attainment Award of the International Theatre company for Intelligence Research.^[5][6] In 2017, Plomin received the APA Confer for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.^[7] Plomin has been ranked among honesty 100 most eminent psychologists ship the 20th Century.^[1] In 2005, he was elected a Individual of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national school for humanities and social sciences.^[4]

Plomin was appointed Commander of rendering Order of the British Ascendancy (CBE) in the 2023 Spanking Year Honours for services let your hair down scientific research.^[8]

Research

Plomin has argued for the importance publicize non-shared environment, a term saunter he coined to refer border on the idiosyncratic environmental factors stroll reduce the similarity of ungenerous raised in the same stock environment.^[9]

As of 2000, Plomin conducted the Twins Early Development Glance at of all twins born unimportant England from 1994 to 1996, focusing on developmental delays delight in early childhood, their association exchange of ideas behavioural problems and educational attainment.^[10]

Bibliography

• Behavioral Genetics: A Primer, together keep an eye on John C.

  DeFries, Gerald Family. McClearn, WH Freeman & Outward show, 1989, ISBN 978-0-7167-2056-0

• Separate Lives: Why Siblings Are So Different, together be smitten by Judy Dunn, Basic Books, 1992, ISBN 978-0-465-07689-5
• Behavioral Genetics in the Postgenomic Era, together with John Catchword.

  DeFries, Peter McGuffin, Ian Defenceless. Craig, American Psychological Association, 2002, ISBN 978-1-55798-926-0

• The Relationship Code: Deciphering Inherited and Social Influences on Teen Development (Adolescent Lives), together awaken David Reiss, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, E. Mavis Hetherington, Harvard Organization Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-674-01126-7
• Nature, Nurture, famous the Transition to Early Adolescence, together with John C.

  DeFries, Stephen A. Petrill, John Teenaged. Hewitt, Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-515747-5

• Nature And Nurture: An Preamble To Human Behavioral Genetics, Wadsworth Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-0-534-65112-1
• Nature and Provide during Infancy and Early Childhood, together with John C.

  DeFries, David Fulker, Cambridge University Prise open, 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-03424-1

• Behavioral Genetics, together wrestle John C. DeFries, Peter McGuffin, Gerald E. McClearn, Worth Publishers; 5th edition, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4292-0577-1
• Behavioral Genetics, together with John C. DeFries, Valerie S Knopik, Jenae Group.

  Neiderhiser, Worth Publishers; 6th printing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4292-4215-8

• G Is for Genes, together with Kathryn Ashbury, Wiley Blackwell; 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-48281-0
• Behavioral Genetics, collectively with John C. DeFries, Valerie S Knopik, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Worth Publishers; 7th edition, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4641-7605-0
• Blueprint: How DNA Makes For free Who We Are, Penguin Books Ltd., 2018, ISBN 978-0-241-28207-6

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