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Old 12-26-2012, 03:49 PM   #406 (permalink)
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That link isn't even about aggressive behaviour, it's about decision making and cognitive processes. "Risky decision making" refers to making a decision under circumstances where the outcome is uncertain. Nowhere in either abstract do I see where this study is about aggression.

EDIT: "Risky behaviour" in your sources, and in the world of psychology means something quite a lot more specific than you yourself have meant it, so your use of psychological sources appears to me to be irrelevant.

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One may ask why an allele that seems to have undergone strong positive selection in human populations nevertheless is now disproportionately represented in individuals diagnosed with ADHD. The common variant/common disorder hypothesis (16) proposes that common genetic variation is related to common disease either because the disease is a product of a new environment (such that genotypes associated with the disorder were not eliminated in the past) or the disorder has small effects on fitness (because it is late onset).
Your source isn't about regional "novelty seeking" behaviour either, it's about the connection between "novelty seeking" behaviour and ADHD. What were these sources supposed to illustrate again?
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