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Brian B. Boutwell

Associate Professor, The University of Mississippi & The University of Mississippi Medical …
Verified email at olemiss.edu
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Behavioural genetics methods

…, TJC Polderman, BB Boutwell - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2023 - nature.com
The question of why people show individual differences in their behaviours and capacities
has intrigued researchers for centuries. Behaviour genetics offers us various methods to …

Rethinking the transmission gap: What behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology mean for attachment theory: A comment on Verhage et al.(2016).

N Barbaro, BB Boutwell, JC Barnes, TK Shackelford - 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Traditional attachment theory posits that attachment in infancy and early childhood is the
result of intergenerational transmission of attachment from parents to offspring. Verhage et al.(…

A biosocial explanation of delinquency abstention

BB Boutwell, KM Beaver - Criminal Behaviour and Mental …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Background One of the more influential criminological theories advanced in recent years is
Moffitt's developmental taxonomy. A line of research has tested the core propositions from …

Genetic and environmental influences on levels of self-control and delinquent peer affiliation: Results from a longitudinal sample of adolescent twins

…, J Eagle Schutt, BB Boutwell… - Criminal Justice …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the fact that low self-control and exposure to delinquent peers are two of the most
robust and consistent predictors of crime, delinquency, and antisocial behavior, much remains …

The intergenerational transmission of low self-control

BB Boutwell, KM Beaver - Journal of Research in Crime and …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
There is a vast line of literature showing that antisocial behaviors and personality traits are
transmitted across generational lines. Given the ascendancy of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s …

Demonstrating the validity of twin research in criminology

JC Barnes, JP Wright, BB Boutwell, JA Schwartz… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Boutwell is an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice in the School of
Social Work at Saint Louis University. His research interests include the evolution of complex …

Examining the genetic underpinnings to Moffitt's developmental taxonomy: A behavioral genetic analysis

JC Barnes, KM Beaver, BB Boutwell - Criminology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, criminological research has observed an increase in studies examining
different offending trajectories. Much of this research has been guided by Moffitt's (1993) …

A demonstration of the generalizability of twin-based research on antisocial behavior

JC Barnes, BB Boutwell - Behavior genetics, 2013 - Springer
Researchers typically analyze samples of twin pairs in order to decompose trait variance into
genetic and environmental components. This methodological technique, referred to as twin-…

On the consequences of ignoring genetic influences in criminological research

JC Barnes, BB Boutwell, KM Beaver, CL Gibson… - Journal of Criminal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose Many criminological scholars explore the social causes of crime while giving little
consideration to the possibility that genetic factors underlie the observed associations. Indeed…

Genetic confounding of the relationship between father absence and age at menarche

N Barbaro, BB Boutwell, JC Barnes… - Evolution and Human …, 2017 - Elsevier
Research in evolutionary psychology, and life history theory in particular, has yielded
important insights into the developmental processes that underpin variation in growth, …