PEOPLE OR PLACE: Samuel Putnam delivers his inaugural lecture as an endowed chair of social sciences in Mills Hall. Putnam ...

For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical ...

“Professor Putnam is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on a fascinating question of how biological and ...

The debate about nature versus nurture goes back to humans’ earliest days of intellectual dispute. Classical Greek thinkers like Plato and Aristotle picked their sides on the causes of human behavior ...

Eric Turkheimer is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association, which awarded him the Dobzhansky Prize ...

Despite decades of progress, women remain underrepresented in science and technology (STEM) careers. New research by UBC psychology professor Dr. Toni Schmader and her team offers insight into one key ...