Last Wednesday, Professor of Social Sciences Samuel Putnam delivered his inaugural lecture as the A. Myrick Freeman Chair in Social Sciences, titled “The Outer Edges of Nature and Nurture.” Speaking ...

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 ...

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

Why do hard-working people sometimes lose their motivation? Behavioral scientist Ayelet Fishbach explains where motivation ...