JOURNAL ARTICLE

Causal complexity in human research: On the shared challenges of behavior genetics, medical genetics, and environmentally oriented social science.

  • Published In: Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2023, v. 46. P. 1 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Madole, James W.; Harden, K. Paige 3 of 3

Abstract

We received 23 spirited commentaries on our target article from across the disciplines of philosophy, economics, evolutionary genetics, molecular biology, criminology, epidemiology, and law. We organize our reply around three overarching questions: (1) What is a cause? (2) How are randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and within-family genome-wide association studies (GWASs) alike and unalike? (3) Is behavior genetics a qualitatively different enterprise? Throughout our discussion of these questions, we advocate for the idea that behavior genetics shares many of the same pitfalls and promises as environmentally oriented research, medical genetics, and other arenas of the social and behavioral sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Behavioral & Brain Sciences. 2023/01, Vol. 46, p1
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Biology
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0140-525X
  • DOI:10.1017/S0140525X23000833
  • Accession Number:174167575
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