This course introduces the basic principles of behavior genetics, the field of study that is interested in evaluating the different forces that shape individual differences. More specifically, the course will survey the evidence for genetic and environmental influences on a broad range of human behaviors, including psychopathology, personality, cognition, and substance use. This course also covers the different methods for evaluating these genetic and environmental contributions, including family-based designs that compare similarities across siblings, twins, and parents and their children, animal models of human behavior, and more recent genomic methods that measure our DNA. Lectures are largely about conceptually understanding findings from this field and the corresponding methods used to produce these findings. This course does not require a strong statistical or biological background to be successful or understand the material.
instructor(s)
Friedman, Naomi P
Primary Instructor
- Fall 2018 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Grotzinger, Andrew David
Primary Instructor
- Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
Huibregtse, Brooke
Primary Instructor
- Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
Rhee, Soo H
Primary Instructor
- Fall 2018 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
