Eric Turkheimer Editor & Author

Eric Turkheimer is a Clinical Psychologist and the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Eric studies how interactions between genes and environments shape the development of human behaviour and has explored the scientific and philosophical basis of the nature-nurture debate for thirty-eight years. He is a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association (2012), a winner of the James Shields Award for Twin Research (2009), and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.