How Genes Shape Your Risk Taking & Morals | Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden
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Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden, PhD, is a psychologist, behavioral geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. We discuss how genes interact with your upbringing to shape your level of risk-taking and morality. We also discuss how genes shape propensity for addiction and impulsivity in males versus females. Finally, we discuss how biology impacts societal views of sinning, punishment and forgiveness.
Articles
- Salivary DNA methylation and pubertal development in adolescents (Scientific Reports)
- Development's tortoise and hare: pubertal timing, pubertal tempo, and depressive symptoms in boys and girls (Developmental Psychology)
- Sensitive and critical periods for visual calibration of sound localization by barn owls (The Journal of Neuroscience)
- Effect of the presence of a male on the sexual maturation of female mice (Endocrinology)
- Family rearing antecedents of pubertal timing (Child Development)
- Why people choose deliberate ignorance in times of societal transformation (Cognition)
- Rule breaking in adolescence and entrepreneurial status: An empirical investigation (Journal of Business Venturing)
- Hostile behavior during marital conflict alters pituitary and adrenal hormones (Psychosomatic Medicine)
- Sex differences in the developmental trajectories of impulse control and sensation-seeking from early adolescence to early adulthood (Journal of Youth and Adolescence)
- The Competitive Advantage of Sanctioning Institutions (Science)
- Why people prefer unequal societies (Nature Human Behaviour)
- Emergence of individuality in genetically identical mice (Science)
Books
- Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
- Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
- One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway -- and Its Aftermath
- I Know This Much Is True: A Powerful Story of Brothers, Mental Illness, and the Search for Forgiveness (P.S.)
Other Resources
- America's first modern mass shooting never really ended (Texas Tribune)
- The Imperfectionist (Newsletter by Oliver Burkeman)
- US in quadrants
- Succession (HBO)
- Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)
- Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (Netflix)
Huberman Lab Episodes Mentioned
- How to Overcome Addiction to Substances or Behaviors | Dr. Keith Humphreys
- Dr. Becky Kennedy: Protocols for Excellent Parenting & Improving Relationships of All Kinds
People Mentioned
- William Newsome: Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University
- Robert Sapolsky: Professor of Biology, Stanford University
- Andrew Solomon: author, lecturer
- Jocko Willink: retired Navy SEAL, author
- Philip Zimbardo: psychologist, Stanford University
- Friedrich Nietzsche: philsopher
- Bernie Madoff: financier
- Joseph Campbell: author
- Hunter S. Thompson: author, journalist
- Oliver Burkeman: author, journalist
About this Guest
Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden
Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden, PhD, is a psychologist and behavioral geneticist and a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
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