Risk-taking emerged as a beneficial strategy in high-reward ancestral contexts. ADHD traits may reflect once-adaptive ...

Students graduating from the BPSG area advance to faculty and research positions in diverse areas within psychology ... in their health, behavior, and brain function. It is an exciting time for ...

nurture remains a central question in psychology ... and experience interact to shape human behavior. If the symptoms of ADHD were solely based on genetics, then we would expect the heritability ...

The program aims to provide Psychology PhD students the biomedical perspectives and skills necessary to join interdisciplinary research teams addressing behavioral and mental ... that employs ...

developmental psychology, and family science. We are interested in understanding how genetics, hormones, and prenatal and postnatal environments contribute to the development of child behavior and ...

Professor Hewitt's work centers on the use of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of twins and families to study behavioral development, and genetic and environmental influences on behavior, ...