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All in the Family: Comparing Siblings to Test Causal Hypotheses Regarding Environmental Influences on Behavior

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Lahey, Benjamin B., D’Onofrio, Brian M.·2010·Current Directions in Psychological Science

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Psychologists in both basic and applied fields are keenly interested in the environmental influences that shape our lives. Therefore, researchers test causal hypotheses to construct models of environmental influences that can withstand attempts at refutation. Randomized experiments provide the strongest tests of causal hypotheses, but are not always feasible and their assumptions cannot always be met. In such cases, a number of quasi-experimental research designs can be used to substantially reduce confounding in tests of causal hypotheses. Sibling-comparison designs provide robust quasi-experimental tests of causal environmental hypotheses, but they are underused in psychology in spite of their power, feasibility, and convenience.

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Authors: Lahey, B. B., & D’Onofrio, B. M.
Affiliations: University of Chicago (US)
Indiana University
Corresponding author: Lahey, Benjamin B.
ORCID: Lahey, Benjamin B.
Venue: Current Directions in Psychological Science
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2010-10
Volume: 19
Issue: 5
Pages: 319-323
ISSN: 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
1467-8721
DOI: 10.1177/0963721410383977
PMC: PMC3643791
OpenAlex: W2155556896
Cited by: 207
References: 19
Citations by year: 2026: 8 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 25 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 11
FWCI: 10.91
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Current Directions in Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD061384)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
Keywords: environmental influences on behavior, causal inference, quasi-experimental design, confounding, randomized experiments, behavioral genetics, heritability

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