I'm Bryan Caplan, an economics professor at George Mason University, and a blogger for EconLog. I'm delighted to join the bloggers at Psychology Today. The long-standing rivalry between economics and ...

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 ...

I'm interested in the interplay between genetics and the environment and how this interaction shapes the aging process across the entire lifespan. From early life experiences to everyday exposures, I ...

I am interested in what promotes healthy functioning in later life. I seek to understand psychological and neurological factors impacting health using genomic methods. And to leverage these factors, ...