Biography: Dr. Friedman received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 2002 from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder. She was then a postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2005) in behavioral genetics at the ...

Behavioral genetics was founded as an interdisciplinary field in the 1970s to separate itself from any connection with genetic determinism or with eugenics. (Eugenics aspired to improve humanity ...

In his 2003 bestseller The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker asserts that "The three laws of behavioral genetics may be the most important discoveries in the history of ...