I believe the original publication introducing concepts and subtypes of g-e 
correlation is:

Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., & Loehlin, J. C. (1977). Genotype-environment 
interaction and correlation in the analysis of human behavior. Psychological 
Bulletin, 84, 309-322.

Cheers....Scott


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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Goff [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:15 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] nature versus nurture: more general discussion

Ken asked -

Stephen's comment raises an interesting point is thinking about
partitioning gene-environment effects.  Would it be correct to
say that the process of growing up produces an increase in
homogeneity of environmental influences across individuals?

Or, to put the issue differently, do environmental effects
disappear (mathematically) because of loss of environmental
variance?

my  answer -

Some of the behavioral geneticists that I have read suggest that environmental 
variance becomes more closely correlated with genetic variance as children 
develop. Scarr and McCartney refer to this as an active genotype to environment 
effect, I think that Plomin refers to it as an active genotype/environment 
correlation. Plomin's idea was published first. The Scarr and McCartney paper 
was in Child Development in 1985. I can find the exact references in my office 
on Monday if you are interested.

Dennis

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Dennis M. Goff
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Department of Psychology
Randolph College (Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891)
Lynchburg VA 24503



-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Steele [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Fri 11/20/2009 12:18 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] nature versus nurture: more general discussion

[email protected] wrote:
>
> For IQ, the figure for heritability is generally found to be higher,
> typically in the 0.70 range, although there is a wide range of
> estimates. In school-aged children, while they are still at home, the
> figure is lower, and there is a clear shared environment effect. . So
> parents do seem to matter. But there's a catch which many don't seem to
> know about. This is only true in the child. As the child gets older and
> leaves the home, less and less of the environmental component can be
> attributed to shared effects, and as a adult, the shared component
> largely disappears.  So parents matter at first to IQ, but later, very
> little.



Ken

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> Stephen
>
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