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How People Make Their Own Environments: A Theory of Genotype Environment Effects
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We propose a theory of development in which experience is directed by genotypes. Genotypic differences are proposed to affect phenotypic differences, both directly and through experience, via 3 kinds of genotype leads to environment effects: a passive kind, through environments provided by biologically related parents; an evocative kind, through responses elicited by individuals from others; and an active kind, through the selection of different environments by different people. The theory adapts the 3 kinds of genotype-environment correlations proposed by Plomin, DeFries, and Loehlin in a developmental model that is used to explain results from studies of deprivation, intervention, twins, and families.
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- Authors
- Scarr, S., & McCartney, K.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1983-04
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 424-435
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- OpenAlex
- W1838289455
- Semantic Scholar
- d71090c7ecf579c4e736cf034c8ca1f6229b1f2c
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- FWCI
- 20.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Keywords
- gene-environment interaction, genotype-environment correlation, developmental theory, parental environment, twin studies, family studies, deprivation, intervention, phenotypic differences
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adoption, Child, Child, Preschool, Environment, Female, Genotype, Humans, Human Development, Infant, Intelligence, Models, Psychological, Parent-Child Relations, Phenotype, Pregnancy, Psychological Theory, Psychosocial Deprivation, Twins
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