The Inheritance of Personality and Ability: Research Methods and Findings

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- Preface - Author's Notes and Acknowledgments 1. "Scientific and Social Issues in the Advance of Behavior Genetics" - 1. Historical Roots of Genetics Prior to 1800 - 2. Modern Growth of Interest in Human Psychological Heredity - 3. Emotional Problems in Absorbing the Findings of Human Genetics - 4. The Warring Ancestries of Genetic Methods and Concepts - 5. Behavior Genetics as a Vital Part of Learning Theory and Social Psychology - 6. The Need for Precise Nomenclature - 7. Summary 2. "Methods and Models Available for Research in Behavior Genetics" - 1. Overview of Methods - 2. The Clinical Syndrome, Genealogical, or Pedigree Method (CSG Method) - 3. Experimental, Inheritance-Manipulating Animal Research - 4. The Physical-Linkage Method - 5. The Convarkin Methods: Initial Survey - 6. Maturation-Learning Process Analysis - 7. Summary 3. "The Twin Method of Investigation with Illustrative Findings" - 1. Comparisons of Variances as a First Step in Behavior Genetics Research in the Convarkin Methods - 2. The Nature of the Complete and Partial Twin Methods - 3. The Breakdown of Concrete into Abstract Variances - 4. Some Qualifying Considerations in Method and Model - 5. Interaction and Correlation of Genetic and Threptic Effects - 6. The Calculation of Heritability, _H_, and the Nature-Nurture Ratio, _N_ - 7. A Brief Survey of Ability Heritabilities by the Twin Method on within-Family Variance - 8. A Brief Survey of Personality and Psychopathology Heritabilities by the Twin Method on within-Family Variance - 9. Summary 4. "The Genesis of the MAVA Model and Its Solutions" - 1. The Intrinsic Potency of Using Many Family Constellations in MAVA - 2. The Principles for Relating Abstract to Concrete Variances - 3. The Unknowns That Genothreptics Seeks: A Priority List - 4. The OSES Solutions for the Most Limited MAVA Experiment - 5. The OSES Solutions for the Less Limited MAVA Model and Experimental Design - 6. The Full MAVA as the Most Complete Convarkin Design for Analyses through Offspring Data - 7. MAVA Analyses by Least-Squares and Maximum-Likelihood Methods - 8. Summary 5. "Further Designs for Determining Genetic, Threptic, and Heritability Values" - 1. The Incidence of Assortive Mating in Typical Populations Today - 2. How Assortiveness Affects Estimates of Genetic and Threptic Values - 3. Using Purely Genetic, Mendelian Relations of Parents, Offspring, and Other Relatives as an Adjunct to Solutions - 4. How Dominance, Epistacy, and Linkage Affect Genetic Partitioning for Reaching Broad (_H~B~_) and Narrow (_H~N~_) Heritabilities - 5. The Special Heritabilities Calculated by Parent-Offspring Methods with and without Genetic Partitioning - 6. The Parent-Offspring Constellation as an Extended but "Fragmentary" MAVA Design - 7. Other Single- or Two-Constellation and Across-Generations Designs: Adoptive Families, Sibs Apart - 8. The Macroscopic Approach through Racial and Cultural ANOVA Designs - 9. Summary 6. "Models of Interaction of Learning and Genetic Processes" - 1. Relating Individual Personality Development to the Ambient Culture by the Econetic Matrices - 2. Discovering Learning Sources for a Particular Trait by PLA Experimental Design - 3. Genothreptic Splitting of Developmental Curves: Four Methods within and across Cultures - 4. Factorial Separation of Curves by _P_-Technique: The Case of Intelligence - 5. The Use of Comparative MAVA in a Developmental Setting - 6. Learning Calculations Refined: The Contributions of Particular Environmental Elements to Pure Threptic Measures - 7. The Rise of Unitary Trait Patterns by Genothreptic Interaction - 8. Summary 7. "Evaluating Interactions: Path Coefficients and Diverse Heritabilities" - 1. Interaction and Covariance of Genetic and Environmental Influences - 2. The Logically Possible, Empirically Researchable Forms of Genothreptic Covariance - 3. Causal Influences in Genothreptic Correlations - 4. Path Coefficient Hypotheses - 5. Further Path Coefficient Models in the Parent and Offspring Generation - 6. Construing and Contextual Dimensions in Environmental Action - 7. Heritabilities, Broad and Narrow: The Genotypic Structures Fitting Genetic Variances - 8. The Six Heritability Coefficients and Their Interpretations - 9. Summary 8. "The Inheritance of Abilities: Some Psychometric Requirements" - 1. Three Approaches toward a Strategic Choice of Psychological Variables for Genothreptic Research - 2. The Triadic Theory of Ability and Its Genetic Implications - 3. Correcting for Error in Measurements and Samples: General Considerations - 4. Psychometric Handling of Compositeness and Correlation in Calculating True Variances - 5. The Heritability of Primary Abilities - 6. The Heritability of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence Examined by the OSES Method - 7. The Heritability of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence Examined by the Least-Squares Method - 8. Final Hypotheses with Suggestions for Further and Crucial Research Designs - 9. Summary 9. "The Heritability of Nine Primary and Five Secondary Source Traits in Q-Data" - 1. The Properties of Questionnaire Data - 2. The Personality Control Triumvirate: C, G, and Q3, by OSES, Least-Squares, and Maximum-Likelihood Methods - 3. Heritabilities of Dominance (_E_), Premsia (_I_), Surgency (_F_), and Self-Sufficiency (_Q~2~_), by the Three Methods - 4. OSES, Least-Squares, and Maximum-Likelihood Analysis of Guilt Proneness (_O_), Parmia (_H_), and Ergic Tension (_Q~4~_) - 5. The Heritabilities of the Secondaries: Exvia-Invia (_Q_I), Anxiety (_Q_II), Cortertia (_Q_III), Independence (_Q_IV), and Control (_Q_VIII) - 6. General Considerations in Evaluating Results and Their Implications - 7. Summary 10. "Heritability and Conceptual Advances for Source Traits in _T_-Data" - 1. Properties of Objective Test (_T_-Data) Source Trait Measurement - 2. The Heritability of Assertiveness (U.I. 16), Inhibitory Control (U.I. 17), and Independence (U.I. 19) by OSES, Least Squares, and Maximum Likelihood - 3. The Heritability of Anxiety (U.I. 24), Regression (U.I. 23), and Narcissistic Self-Sentiment ("Self-Will") (U.I. 26) - 4. The Heritability of Exuberance (U.I. 21) and Asthenia (U.I. 28) - 5. The Heritability of Reality Contact (Realism-versus-A Psychotic Break) (U.I. 25), Exvia-Invia (U.I. 32), and Sanguineness-versus-Discouragement (U.I. 33) - 6. Structural and Genetic Models to Explain the Heritability of Secondary Personality Traits - 7. Some Perspective on Regularities and Irregularities of Findings - 8. Objectives for the Future in Behavior Genetics: In Research and in Psychological Practice - 9. Summary - References - Glossary - Author Index - Subject Index