Robert Plomin

Robert Joseph Plomin

In 1987 Plomin married Judith Dunn, a British psychologist and academic.^[4]

Honors and awards

In 2002, the Behavior Genetics Association awarded him the Dobzhansky Memorial Award for a Lifetime of Outstanding Scholarship in Behavior Genetics. He was awarded the William James Fellow Award by the Association for Psychological Science in 2004 and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Intelligence Research.^[5][6] In 2017, Plomin received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.^[7] Plomin was ranked among the 100 most eminent psychologists in the history of science.^[1] In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for humanities and social sciences.^[4]

Plomin was appointed

Research

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Plomin has argued for the importance of non-shared environment, a term that he coined to refer to the idiosyncratic environmental factors that reduce the similarity of individuals raised in the same family environment.^[9]

As of 2000, Plomin conducted the Twins Early Development Study of all twins born in England from 1994 to 1996, focusing on developmental delays in early childhood, their association with behavioural problems and educational attainment.^[10]

Bibliography

• Behavioral Genetics: A Primer, together with
  ISBN 978-0-7167-2056-0
• Separate Lives: Why Siblings Are So Different, together with
  ISBN 978-0-465-07689-5
• Behavioral Genetics in the Postgenomic Era, together with John C. DeFries,
  ISBN 978-1-55798-926-0
• The Relationship Code: Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development (Adolescent Lives), together with
  ISBN 978-0-674-01126-7
• Nature, Nurture, and the Transition to Early Adolescence, together with John C. DeFries,
  ISBN 978-0-19-515747-5
• Nature And Nurture: An Introduction To Human Behavioral Genetics, Wadsworth Publishing, 2004,
  ISBN 978-0-534-65112-1
• Nature and Nurture during Infancy and Early Childhood, together with John C. DeFries,
  ISBN 978-0-521-03424-1
• Behavioral Genetics, together with John C. DeFries, Peter McGuffin, Gerald E. McClearn, Worth Publishers; 5th edition, 2008,
  ISBN 978-1-4292-0577-1
• Behavioral Genetics, together with John C. DeFries, Valerie S Knopik, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Worth Publishers; 6th edition, 2012,
  ISBN 978-1-4292-4215-8
• ISBN 978-1-118-48281-0
• Behavioral Genetics, together with John C. DeFries, Valerie S Knopik, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Worth Publishers; 7th edition, 2016,
  ISBN 978-1-4641-7605-0
• ISBN 978-0-241-28207-6