You might not have ever told your daughter about the social norm of girls playing with dolls, but one day she tells you its her favourite toy. Is this society's doing? Or something in nature?

Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who ...

Blame it on your parents (nature). Blame it on your friends (nurture). But, in truth, you can probably blame your personality on both. Is the development of human personalities the result of inherited ...

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 ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or ...