Kathryn Tabb
Biographic Data
| ID | 922299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Tabb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Tabb |
| SIGNATURE | TABB K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4879-6813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beliefs about genetic influences on prosocial and antisocial behavior in a U.S. sample
Genes are increasingly understood to influence behavior. Research—generally conducted among convenience samples— has suggested that genetic influences tend to be perceived as playing a greater role in positive (e.g. prosocial) behaviors than in negative (e.g. antisocial) behaviors. Several potential bases for this asymmetry have been explored previously. We examined, in a U.S. sample, whether an asymmetry in genetic attributions between prosocial…
Understanding individualised genetic interventions as research-treatment hybrids
Until recently, medicine has had little to offer most of the millions of patients suffering from rare and ultrarare genetic conditions. But the development in 2019 of Milasen, the first genetic intervention developed for and administered to a single patient suffering from an ultrarare genetic disorder, has offered hope to patients and families. In addition, Milasen raised a series of conceptual and ethical questions about how individualised genet…
Divine intersubjectivity? On Lenz on Locke
We students of the early modern period should be doubly grateful for Martin Lenz’s new book, Socializing Minds: Intersubjectivity in Early Modern Philosophy. For the project is doubly generative, i
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for the presence and absence of health problems
OBJECTIVE: Recent research has suggested that people more readily make genetic attributions for positively valenced or desirable traits than for negatively valenced or undesirable traits-an asymmetry that may be mediated by perceptions that positive characteristics are more 'natural' than negative ones. This research sought to examine whether a similar asymmetry in genetic attributions would emerge between positive and negative health outcomes. D…
Asymmetric genetic attributions for one’s own prosocial versus antisocial behavior
People tend to rate prosocial or positive behavior as more strongly influenced by the actor's genes than antisocial or negative behavior. The current study tested whether people would show a similar asymmetry when rating the role of genes in their own behavior, and if so, what variables might mediate this difference. Participants were prompted to think about an example of their own behavior from the past year that was either prosocial or antisoci…
Genetic attributions and perceptions of naturalness are shaped by evaluative valence
Genetic influences on human behavior are increasingly well understood, but laypeople may endorse genetic attributions selectively; e.g., they appear to make stronger genetic attributions for prosocial than for antisocial behavior. We explored whether this could be accounted for by the relationship of genetic attributions to perceptions of naturalness. Participants read about positively or negatively valenced traits or behaviors and rated naturaln…
The prospects of precision psychiatry
Philosophy of psychiatry after diagnostic kinds
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for prosocial versus antisocial behaviour
Darwin at Orchis Bank
Psychiatric Progress and the Assumption of Diagnostic Discrimination
Psychiatry’s failure to validate its diagnostic constructs is often attributed to the prioritizing of reliability over validity in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ). I argue that a more powerful way in which the DSM has retarded biomedical progress is by encouraging unwarranted optimism about diagnostic discrimination : the assumption that our diagnostic tests group patients together in ways that allow for relevant…
The Fate of Nebuchadnezzar
This paper makes a case for the centrality of the passion of curiosity to Hobbes’s account of human nature. Hobbes describes curiosity as one of only a few capacities differentiating human beings from animals, and I argue that it is in fact the fundamental cause of humanity’s uniqueness, generating other important difference-makers such as language, science and politics. I qualify Philip Pettit’s (2008) claim that Hobbes believes language to be t…
Dossier Évolution et créationnisme. La téléologie de Darwin
Durant ces trois dernieres decennies, les debats sur la fonction dans les sciences de la vie ont mene a un reexamen du concept de design. Des philosophes tels que Herbert Simon ont plaide en faveur du developpement des « sciences de l’artificiel », visant a codifier les processus de design (conception et organisation) et a analyser leur relation aux processus naturels. Le travail de Simon et celui d’autres chercheurs ont introduit le discours du …
Taking Exams, Taking on Capitalism
How to Take an Exam... & Remake the World by Bertell OllmanThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Philosophy of psychiatry after diagnostic kinds
Psychiatric Progress and the Assumption of Diagnostic Discrimination
Psychiatry’s failure to validate its diagnostic constructs is often attributed to the prioritizing of reliability over validity in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ). I argue that a more powerful way in which the DSM has retarded biomedical progress is by encouraging unwarranted optimism about diagnostic discrimination : the assumption that our diagnostic tests group patients together in ways that allow for relevant…
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for prosocial versus antisocial behaviour
Taking Exams, Taking on Capitalism
How to Take an Exam... & Remake the World by Bertell OllmanThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Dossier Évolution et créationnisme. La téléologie de Darwin
Durant ces trois dernieres decennies, les debats sur la fonction dans les sciences de la vie ont mene a un reexamen du concept de design. Des philosophes tels que Herbert Simon ont plaide en faveur du developpement des « sciences de l’artificiel », visant a codifier les processus de design (conception et organisation) et a analyser leur relation aux processus naturels. Le travail de Simon et celui d’autres chercheurs ont introduit le discours du …
The Fate of Nebuchadnezzar
This paper makes a case for the centrality of the passion of curiosity to Hobbes’s account of human nature. Hobbes describes curiosity as one of only a few capacities differentiating human beings from animals, and I argue that it is in fact the fundamental cause of humanity’s uniqueness, generating other important difference-makers such as language, science and politics. I qualify Philip Pettit’s (2008) claim that Hobbes believes language to be t…
Darwin at Orchis Bank
Psychiatric Progress and the Assumption of Diagnostic Discrimination
Psychiatry’s failure to validate its diagnostic constructs is often attributed to the prioritizing of reliability over validity in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ). I argue that a more powerful way in which the DSM has retarded biomedical progress is by encouraging unwarranted optimism about diagnostic discrimination : the assumption that our diagnostic tests group patients together in ways that allow for relevant…
Philosophy of psychiatry after diagnostic kinds
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for prosocial versus antisocial behaviour
The prospects of precision psychiatry
Genetic attributions and perceptions of naturalness are shaped by evaluative valence
Genetic influences on human behavior are increasingly well understood, but laypeople may endorse genetic attributions selectively; e.g., they appear to make stronger genetic attributions for prosocial than for antisocial behavior. We explored whether this could be accounted for by the relationship of genetic attributions to perceptions of naturalness. Participants read about positively or negatively valenced traits or behaviors and rated naturaln…
Divine intersubjectivity? On Lenz on Locke
We students of the early modern period should be doubly grateful for Martin Lenz’s new book, Socializing Minds: Intersubjectivity in Early Modern Philosophy. For the project is doubly generative, i
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for the presence and absence of health problems
OBJECTIVE: Recent research has suggested that people more readily make genetic attributions for positively valenced or desirable traits than for negatively valenced or undesirable traits-an asymmetry that may be mediated by perceptions that positive characteristics are more 'natural' than negative ones. This research sought to examine whether a similar asymmetry in genetic attributions would emerge between positive and negative health outcomes. D…
Asymmetric genetic attributions for one’s own prosocial versus antisocial behavior
People tend to rate prosocial or positive behavior as more strongly influenced by the actor's genes than antisocial or negative behavior. The current study tested whether people would show a similar asymmetry when rating the role of genes in their own behavior, and if so, what variables might mediate this difference. Participants were prompted to think about an example of their own behavior from the past year that was either prosocial or antisoci…
Understanding individualised genetic interventions as research-treatment hybrids
Until recently, medicine has had little to offer most of the millions of patients suffering from rare and ultrarare genetic conditions. But the development in 2019 of Milasen, the first genetic intervention developed for and administered to a single patient suffering from an ultrarare genetic disorder, has offered hope to patients and families. In addition, Milasen raised a series of conceptual and ethical questions about how individualised genet…
Beliefs about genetic influences on prosocial and antisocial behavior in a U.S. sample
Genes are increasingly understood to influence behavior. Research—generally conducted among convenience samples— has suggested that genetic influences tend to be perceived as playing a greater role in positive (e.g. prosocial) behaviors than in negative (e.g. antisocial) behaviors. Several potential bases for this asymmetry have been explored previously. We examined, in a U.S. sample, whether an asymmetry in genetic attributions between prosocial…
Psychology (9 works) · Attribution (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Prosocial behavior (4 works) · Behavioural genetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works) · Law (3 works)