EVALUATE GENETICS Flashcards
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FOR
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- Cocarro, soo rhee, Hans brunner
- ball et al did a study looking at 1,116 pairs of 10 year old twins from England and Wales. Mothers and teachers had to identify them as bullies by check list
- found 63% concordance rate for MZ twins and 33% for DZ twins over 60% of the difference explained by genetic influences
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AGAINST
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- not 100% concordance in ball
- cocarro and soo rhee show genes cannot explain all behaviour and a diathesis stress explanation would be better
- Frazetto et al did research on MAOA and found a link between low activity MAOA and aggressive behaviour but only in those who had a serious traumatic event in their life prior to age 15 so environment may be a factor
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APPLICATION
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- focus on genes for bullying has directed research to look at multiple genetic causes
- Vassos et al did a meta analysis on bullying studies and could not find one single gene responsible
- research is therefore ongoing and if genetic combo can be found then treatment programmes can be developed
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ALTERNATIVE
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- by assuming that bullying behaviour is due to only genetic factors this is reductionist and ignores other equally plausible explanations such as EGD and ToM
