Born and Raised
What is happening at the intersection between genetics and the social sciences? In this podcast series, hosts Rafael and Aysu talk to leading researchers in the exciting new field of social science genetics about their life and work. Born and Raised is produced by the European Social Science Genetics Network.
Episodes
What makes someone good at learning? Intelligence certainly helps. But as we grow up, curiosity, motivation, confidence, and interest seem to matter more and more. So does curiosity eventually beat intelligence?
Developmental psychologist Margherita Malanchini joins us to talk about the so-called “non-cognitive” side of learning. We discuss how genes and environments shape curiosity and self-efficacy, why these traits b...
If someone tells you a trait is 40% heritable, what have you actually learned? And why do twin studies, SNP-based estimates, and family designs keep returning different numbers?
Michel Nivard joins us for a crash course in all things heritability: broad-sense heritability, narrow-sense heritability, SNP heritability - even phantoms make an appearance. What do different measures capture, and what is the missing heritability problem?
...In this wrap up of season 1, Aysu and Rafael sit down to look back on the conversations so far: what were the highlights, what did we learn about talking science with other scientists, and what's the plan going forward?
Can society shape the human genome? What happens when people move to opportunity? Why do genes associated with educational attainment cluster geographically? And what happens to the gene pool when educated people increasingly partner with other educated people? In this episode of Born and Raised, behavior geneticist Abdel Abdellaoui returns to the podcast to walk us through his paper Socioeconomic status is a social construct with ...
What is musicality? Why do some people seem to have more of it? Did Beethoven have the genes for it? And which musical genre is most associated with depression? These questions and many more are covered in this episode of Born and Raised, where our hosts Aysu and Rafael talk to behavior geneticist Laura Wesseldijk about all things genetics and musicality!
Personality psychologists were doing behavior genetics way before it was cool. In this episode, Rafael and Aysu sit down with Eivind Ystrøm, personality psychologist at the University of Oslo, to talk about what personality actually is, how heritable it turns out to be, and why the field was so far ahead of the rest of the social sciences in taking genetics seriously.
They also dig into one of the most provocative findings in the f...
What do we mean when we talk about "non-cognitive skills," and what does genetics tell us about them? In this episode, our hosts visited Perline Demange to talk about the genetic architecture of cognitive and non-cognitive skills — how they relate to educational attainment, where they overlap with personality and psychopathology, and what that could tell us about the genetics of doing well in school. And also - what on earth ...
Why did you pick your partner? Just right place at the right time, or deliberate process? Whatever the case, it turns out that your partner is likely to be more genetically similar to you than we would expect by random chance. Also turns out that this has a bunch of weird consequences for genetic research! In this episode, our hosts went to Oslo and had a chat with Hans Fredrik Sunde about all things assortative mating. What is it,...
Why on earth would a political scientist do research in genetics? In this episode, our hosts met up with Sven Oskarsson in the supremely cozy Alinska Library at Uppsala university to let him spill the beans! Are political orientations, participation and behavior heritable, and why? How do genetic effects on political outcomes vary? And what are the practical implications of these types of results? Oh, and what's with all the ancien...
Curious about epigenetics? Dive right in! In this episode, Laurel Raffington gets a visit from the Born and Raised crew in her beautiful office at the Max Planck institute in Berlin. We learn about all things epigenetics - clocks, scores, inheritance - and about their connections to things like socioeconomic deprivation. The ethics and history of doing sociogenomic research in a context like Germany is also discussed. And how does ...
In this episode, our hosts visit economist Sjoerd van Alten in his office at the Vrije Universiteit. Why would an economist be interested in genetics? How does one use molecular genetic data to study genetic effects on complex social and economic traits? What are genome-wide association studies, polygenic indexes, and how do we get from correlation to causation? These and many more questions are answered in this episode!
In this very first episode of Born and Raised, hosts Rafael and Aysu visit behavior geneticist Abdel Abdellaoui in his office at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. They talk about the nature of social science genetics as a field, about responsible research communication, and we also get to learn some shocking facts about Abdel's past!
Brought to you by the European Social Science Genetics Network: https://essgn.org/
What is happening at the intersection between genetics and the social sciences? In this upcoming podcast series, hosts Rafael and Aysu talk to leading researchers in the exciting new field of social science genetics about their life and work. Born and Raised is produced by the European Social Science Genetics Network.
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