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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2008 3(2):89-90; doi:10.1093/scan/nsn015
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Genetic contributions to sensitive parenting

Shelley E. Taylor

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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A professor from whom I took a course in graduate school asserted that journals could serve one of two functions: an archival function for articles that nailed down the details of an often paradigm-specific effect or a heuristic function, in which all the details of the findings were not yet nailed down, but the work could serve as an inspiration to others. He was squarely on the side of the heuristic function.

A similar point may be made about journal articles. Some address all the details of a modest question, whereas others are sufficiently exciting, despite leaving questions unanswered, as to have an energizing effect on the field. Such is the case with the Bakermans-Kranenburg and van IJzendoorn article, ‘Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) and Serotonin Transporter (5-HTT) Genes Associated with Observed Parenting’. The article reports findings from an ongoing . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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