Steven Vandenberg was a behavior geneticist

Behavioural genetics

Quantitative human behavioural genetics is a specialisation in the biological field of behaviour genetics that studies the role of genetics in human behaviour employing quantitative-genetic methods. The field is an overlap of quantitative genetics and psychology...

 who immigrated to the US after the Second World War

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, obtaining his Ph.D.

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 from the University of Michigan

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 in 1955.

From 1960 to 1967 he worked at the University of Louisville

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 Medical School

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 as director of the Louisville Twin Study. In 1970 he moved to the Institute of Behavior Genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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, where he remained until his retirement. Vandenberg received many honors and awards during his lifetime, including being the first recipient of the Behavior Genetics Association

Behavior Genetics Association

The Behavior Genetics Association is a learned society that was established in 1970 and promotes research into the connection between heredity and behavior.- Aims :...

's Dobzhansky

Theodosius Dobzhansky

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 Career Award in 1977. Vandenberg served as President of the Behavior Genetics Association (1984–1985) and was the founding editor of their scientific journal

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 Behavior Genetics

Behavior Genetics (journal)

Behavior Genetics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media that is devoted to "research in the inheritance of behavior". It is the official journal of the Behavior Genetics Association. The journal was founded in 1971 with Steven G. Vandenberg as...

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