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Challenging or Reinforcing Social Prejudice?

Helen Longino¹

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1. Stanford University Department of Philosophy

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Received 26 November 2008 19:03 UTC; Posted 03 December 2008

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Genetics & Genomics

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• sexual orientation
• behavioral genetics

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Behavior genetics holds out the hope of unbiased study of the biological bases of human behavior. Without more rigorous reflection on behavioral concepts, however, behavior genetics will succeed only in reinforcing social biases. This point is illustrated with reference to studies on aggression, sexual orientation, and gender differences.

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Stanford University: CIRGE Symposium June 6, 2006

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CIRGE Symposium: Interpreting Complexity, 06 June 2006

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Longino, Helen. Challenging or Reinforcing Social Prejudice? . Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2008.2567.1> (2008)

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