Kristen C. Jacobson, University of Chicago
Associate Professor
Chicago, Illinois
kjacobso@bsd.uchicago.edu
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(773) 834-0265
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My overall research interests are in how environmental, social, genetic, and biological factors interact in the development of antisocial behavior. My research has been highly influenced by the Bioecological Model first developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner, who I was honored to work with for a short ...
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Bio/Research
My overall research interests are in how environmental, social, genetic, and biological factors interact in the development of antisocial behavior. My research has been highly influenced by the Bioecological Model first developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner, who I was honored to work with for a short period following graduation from college. The Ecological Framework has not only influenced my current research on examining influences on youth problem behaviors at multiple levels, including neighborhood, school, peer, family, and individual psychosocial, biological, and genetic factors, but has also guided much of my behavioral genetic research, which seeks to understand whether the importance of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in human behaviors and traits is modifiable by different environmental exposures or by different individual characteristics. Since 2007, I have been conducting a multidisciplinary, multi-level study of a large cohort of racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse youth in the Chicago area. More recently, in 2010, I began a new program of research investigating how human-animal interaction influences biology and behavior. Finally, I have several ongoing collaborations with twin researchers both within and outside the University of Chicago, designed to better understand the interplay of genetic and environmental influences on aggressive/antisocial behavior in adults, and on cognition and aging in middle-aged male twins.
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