Modern Wisdom

#353 - Robert Plomin - How Do Genes Influence Our Behaviour?

Aug 2, 2021

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Does the Heritability of Low SES Kids in America Really Matter?

03:24

Is There an Increase in Heritability Over Time With IQ?

03:58

How Do You Separate Out Genetics and Environment?

04:46

Introduction

5min

Behavioral Genetics - A Whole New World

4min

Do Inherited DNA Differences Account for Some of the Differences?

5min

The Second Misconception About Genetics

1min

The Heritability of Weight

3min

I'm Not Hungry, I've Eating That Food.

2min

Do You Know How to Measure Weight?

2min

How Do You Separate Out Genetics and Environment?

5min

How Many Twins Have You Studied?

2min

10.

Does the Heritability of Low SES Kids in America Really Matter?

3min

11.

How Do Genes Influence Our Behavior?

3min

12.

Is There a Cure?

3min

13.

Is There a Cure for Dyslexia?

4min

14.

Psychopathy

2min

15.

How Does Heritability Change Over Time?

5min

16.

Is There an Increase in Heritability Over Time With IQ?

4min

17.

Diabetes

3min

18.

I've Been Anti-Phoetic, I'm a Philosopher.

4min

19.

Is Infidelity Heritable?

3min

20.

Is There a Gay Gene?

5min

21.

How Do Genetics and Parenting Influence Our Behavior?

5min

22.

Not Random Chance

2min

23.

Parenting and Genetics

5min

24.

How Parents Can Maximize Stochastic Inference Events

2min

25.

Parenting Books - Are They Really Bad?

3min

26.

Is This a Random Drug Test?

2min

27.

How Much of a Difference Does Offstead Make?

3min

28.

Is DNA Dating a Thing?

3min

29.

DNA Dating Is a Thing, Is It?

2min

30.

Genetics

3min

31.

Is Heritability an Index of Equality?

2min

32.

The Biggest Impact of Genetics on the Brain?

3min

33.

Using the Genetic Current, What Would You Like to Do?

2min

34.

I'm a Sailor, I've Got My Hand Loosely on the Rudder

3min

Robert Plomin, is a psychologist, geneticist and an author.

Separating the influence of nature and nurture is something everyone considers. Robert is the 71st most cited psychologist of the 20th century and has run the largest and most clinically detailed twin and adoption studies in history to finally provide definitive answers to these fundamental questions.

Expect to learn how much of who we are can be attributed to our environment and how much was predisposed by our genetics, why parenting doesn't make a difference, why the choice of school your child goes to only impacts 1% of their outcomes, whether penis size is heritable, if there is a gay gene or not and much more...

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