Sarnoff A Mednick

Biographic Data

ID361659
NAMESarnoff A Mednick
GIVEN NAMESSarnoff A
FAMILY NAMEMednick
SIGNATUREMEDNICK S A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS56
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX5

  • The Association of Birth Complications and Externalizing Behavior in Early Adolescents: Direct and Mediating Effects

    Open AccessJianghong Liu, Adrian Raine et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2009Cited by: 3References: 1

    Prior studies have shown that birth complications interact with psychosocial risk factors in predisposing to increased externalizing behavior in childhood and criminal behavior in adulthood. However, little is known about the direct relationship between birth complications and externalizing behavior. Furthermore, the mechanism by which the birth complications predispose to externalizing behavior is not well explored. This study aims to assess whe…

  • Prenatal Influenza Exposure and Delivery Complications: Implications for the Development of Schizophrenia

    PETER H VENABLES, Jianghong Liu et al.ARTICLEFamily & Community Health2007

    This study assessed prenatal influenza exposure in relation to pregnancy complications and delivery complications. Participants of this study consisted of a community sample of all mothers of 1,795 children who were a birth cohort recruited at age 3 in a prospective longitudinal project in Mauritius. The onset of the 1968-1972 A2/Hong Kong influenza epidemic in January 1970 was established from officially published death rates and newspaper recor…

  • Stimulation seeking and intelligence: A prospective longitudinal study

    Adrian Raine, Chandra A Reynolds et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2002

    The prediction that high stimulation seeking 3-year-olds would have higher IQs by 11 years old was tested in 1,795 children on whom behavioral measures of stimulation seeking were taken at 3 years, together with cognitive ability at 11 years. High 3-year-old stimulation seekers scored 12 points higher on total IQ at age 11 compared with low stimulation seekers and also had superior scholastic and reading ability. Results replicated across indepen…

  • Perinatal Complications Predict Violent Offending

    Open AccessELIZABETH KANDEL, Sarnoff A MednickARTICLECriminology1991Cited by: 10References: 20

    Pregnancy and birth complications are frequently treated as one variable, despite evidence that pregnancy events and birth events may have different impacts on the developing child. This paper studies the association between perinatal events and the development of violent and property crime. In the context of a prospective study of a sample of 216 subjects drawn from a Danish birth cohort, 15 violent criminals and 24 property criminals were compa…

  • A Reply to Waeters and White: “Heredity and Crime”

    Open AccessPatricia A Brennan, Sarnoff A MednickARTICLECriminology1990Cited by: 1References: 2

    This paper is written in response to the Walters and white (1989) review article “Heredity and Crime: Bad Genes or Bad Research?” Walters and white's criticisms are often global statements of disapproval or name‐calling rather than useful, analytic statements. Unfortunately, when they become specific, they are usually in error

  • Specialization in Violence: Evidence of a Criminal Subgroup

    Open AccessPatricia A Brennan, PATRICIA BRENNAN et al.ARTICLECriminology1989Cited by: 10References: 11

    This study examines the criminal arrest records of a Danish birth cohort of 28,884 men to test the hypothesis that specialization exists for violent offending. Property offending is included for comparison. Specialization in violence is found to exist for offenders with more than three arrests, and specialization in property offending, for offenders with fewer than four arrests. Knowledge of past violent offending is discussed as a potentially va…

  • Predisposition to violence

    Open AccessSarnoff A Mednick, Patricia A Brennan et al.ARTICLEAggressive Behavior1988References: 15

    This paper asks whether biological factors play a causal role in violent criminal offending. We consider the research on genetic influence and find no evidence of hereditary transmission of violent criminal behavior. There is considerable evidence, however, that violent delinquent and adult offenders exhibit an elevated frequency of brain damage. Potential sources of this brain damage exist in the prenatal and perinatal course of development.

  • Urban Environment, Genetics, and Crime

    Open AccessWilliam F Gabrielli, Sarnoff A MednickARTICLECriminology1984Cited by: 5References: 10

    Gene‐environment interactions are important for the development of much human behavior. We examined the possibility that a genetic propensity to criminal behavior interacts with the type of environment in which an individual is raised. Using a cohort of adoptees, we found evidence for independent contributions of biological parent criminality (genetic influence) and urban environment rearing to prediction of adoptee criminality, but no evidence f…

  • Prospective Studies of Crime and Delinquency

    Open AccessKatherine Teilmann Van Dusen, Sarnoff A MednickBOOKProspective Studies of Crime and…1983

  • Children of schizophrenic women: Early factors predictive of schizophrenia

    Open AccessLeigh Silverton, Karen M Finello et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal1983References: 17

    The present report reviews some findings of a 20-year longitudinal study of Danish children at risk for schizophrenia. Early factors predictive of later schizophrenia in high-risk children, including infant temperament and the effect of perinatal complications, are reviewed. In addition, the role of maternal absence as a stressor is examined. Findings related to sex differences in the vulnerability of high-risk children to later pathology are dis…

  • Genetic Correlates of Criminal Behavior: Implications for Research, Attribution, and Prevention

    Open AccessWilliam F Gabrielli, Sarnoff A MednickARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist1983Cited by: 2References: 18

  • Perinatal conditions and infant development in children with schizophrenic parents

    Sarnoff A Mednick, Elaine Mura et al.ARTICLEBiodemography and Social Biology1982References: 4

    A twenty‐year study was begun in Denmark in 1962 of the differential effects of pregnancy and delivery complications on children of schizophrenic parents, on children of normal parents, and on children of parents with nonschizophrenic psychiatric disorders. This paper studies these children and their parents in 1971 utilizing data on pregnancy, delivery, and the physical and neurological examinations of the children at birth and at one year of ag…

  • New Paths in Criminology: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Explorations

    Richard J Lundman, Sarnoff A Mednick et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1981

  • Eeg as a Predictor of Antisocial Behavior

    Open AccessSarnoff A Mednick, JAN VOLA VKA et al.ARTICLECriminology1981Cited by: 3References: 9

    Slowing of alpha brain activity has been reported among antisocial individuals. One popular hypothesis to explain this slowing assumes a developmental lag, that is, brain immaturity. Studies to date have not established whether the brain wave activity precedes the development of antisocial behavior. The present longitudinal study attempts to answer this question by looking at EEG brain activity measures taken before the beginning of delinquent ac…

  • Schizophrenia in high-risk subjects: Prognostic maternal characteristics

    Sharon A Talovic, Sarnoff A Mednick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Abnormal Psychology1980

  • Biology and Crime

    Sarnoff A Mednick, Jan VolavkaARTICLECrime and Justice1980

    Research into biological factors in the etiology of crime has long been out of favor in the United States. Yet all human behavior is partly the result of physiological causes, and it is a reasonable hypothesis that both nature and nurture influence antisocial behavior. Recent research has tested that hypothesis and results seem to confirm it. A growing body of research has consistently found that identical twins are likelier both to have criminal…

  • Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Analysis

    Lee Ellis, M Philip Feldman et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1979Cited by: 1

  • Biosocial bases of criminal behavior

    Karl O Christiansen, Sarnoff A MednickBOOKBiosocial bases of criminal…1977Cited by: 6

  • Reply to Hood's “On Creativity as Defined by the Remote Associates Test”

    Open AccessSarnoff A MednickARTICLEPsychological Reports1969

    Hood (1969) has examined the implications of some of the criteria suggested by Mednick (1962) for defining creativity. He has pointed out the criterion useful and the criterion meets specified collapse into one category under certain laboratory circumstances. This is doubtless true. Mednick has an extended discussion of criteria for judgment of creativity in the section of the same paper headed Selection of the creative combination. He suggests t…

  • Current methodology in research on the etiology of schizophrenia: Serious difficulties which suggest the use of the high-risk-group method

    Sarnoff A Mednick, Thomas F McNeilARTICLEPsychological Bulletin1968

  • Imagination

    Martha T Mednick, Sarnoff A MednickARTICLEThe Journal of Higher Education1964

  • Continual association as a function of level of creativity and type of verbal stimulus

    Martha T Mednick, Sarnoff A Mednick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Abnormal & Social…1964

  • Incubation of creative performance and specific associative priming

    Martha T Mednick, Sarnoff A Mednick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Abnormal & Social…1964Cited by: 6

  • Mothers' retrospective reports in child-rearing research

    Sarnoff A Mednick, John B P ShafferARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry1963

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  • Creativity and the need for novelty

    John P Houston, Sarnoff A MednickARTICLEJournal of Abnormal & Social…1963Cited by: 6