Both nature (genetics) and nurture (environment) play a role in shaping who we are, and their interaction is often the most influential factor in a person's development. Mental health can be ...

Genes may play a bigger role than previously thought in influencing personality. Your Back Page scrawler has long been ...

For years, researchers have debated how our brains consistently develop areas specialized for recognizing faces, objects, words, and places, despite individuals having vastly different life ...

The question of whether human behavior is driven by innate biological forces or the product of our learning and environment has been a popular discussion at cocktail parties and scientific conferences ...

This is the second post in a series. Read the first post here. Social scientists today assume that left-right (or, in the U.S., liberal-conservative) political orientation, like virtually every other ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or ...

Jason Boardman, associate professor of sociology and faculty research associate with the Population Program in CU-Boulder’s Institute of Behavioral Science It’s popular to frame issues of variation in ...

Richard Overy is an accomplished British historian of World War II. His “Why War?” is a brisk and wide-ranging survey of the academic literature since Einstein wrote to Freud. Mr. Overy explains our ...