Research Interests for Evan Charney

Genetics and political ideology, political psychology, theories of personality, methodology of the social sciences, liberalism, constitutional law, multiculturalism, and nationalism.

Keywords:

Attitude, Behavior genetics, Brain, Developmental Biology, DNA Copy Number Variations, Epigenetics, Epigenomics, Evolution, Molecular, Evolutionary developmental biology, Female, Genetic Association Studies, Genetics, Genetics, Behavioral, Genomics, Genotype, Humans, Individuality, Infant, Newborn, Models, Psychological, Mosaicism, Neuronal Plasticity, Personality, Phenotype, Phenotypic plasticity, Politics, Pregnancy, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Retroelements, Social Environment

Representative Publications

1. E. Charney, Conservatives, liberals, and "the negative": Commentary on John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Alford, "Differences in Negativity Bias Underlie Variations in Political Ideology", Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Forthcoming)
2. E. Charney, Genetics and the Life Course, in Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Forthcoming) [abs]
3. E. Charney, Can Tasks be Inherently Boring? Commentary on Robert Kurzban, Angela Duckworth, Joseph W. Kable, and Justus Myers, “An Opportunity Cost Model of Subjective Effort and Task Performance", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 36 no. 6 (December, 2013), pp. 684 [abs]
4. E. Charney, Behavioural genetics in the postgenomic era, eLS, John Wiley & Sons (Forthcoming) [abs]
5. Charney, E, Cytoplasmic inheritance redux., Advances in Child Development and Behavior, vol. 44 (January, 2013), pp. 225-255, ISSN 0065-2407 [edit], [doi] [abs]
6. Charney, E; English, W, Genopolitics and the science of genetics, American Political Science Review, vol. 107 no. 2 (January, 2013), pp. 382-395, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0003-0554 [edit], [doi] [abs]
7. E. Charney, Politics and Biology, Perspectives on Politics, vol. 11 no. 2 (June, 2013), pp. 588-61 [edit], [doi]
8. E. Charney, Gene Association Studies, in Biotechnology in Our Lives, edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber (2013), Skyhorse, New York, NY
9. Charney, E, Behavior Genetics and Post Genomics, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 35 no. 6 (December, 2012), pp. 1-80 [open], [doi] [abs]
10. Charney, E; English, W, Candidate genes and political behavior, American Political Science Review, vol. 106 no. 1 (February, 2012), pp. 1-34, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0003-0554 [open], [doi] [abs]
11. E. Charney, Still Chasing Ghosts: A New Genetic Methodology Will Not Find the “Missing Heritability”, Independent Science News (September 19, 2013) [available here]