The Other Side of Normal

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The geography of the Big 5 personality traits Peter J. Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling, and Jeff Potter, Perspectives on Psychological Science (Vol. 3, no. 5), p. 31 © 2008 by SAGE Publications. Reprinted by Permission of SAGE Publications.

Mike and Judy Bornstein with one of their daughters Used with permission of the Bornstein Family.

Examples from the “Before They Were Famous” test Reprinted with permission of Richard Russell, Brad Duchaine, and Ken Nakayama.

Hazda faces Reprinted with permission of Antony Little and Coren Lee Apicella.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Smoller, Jordan W., 1961–

The other side of normal : how biology is providing the clues to unlock the secrets of normal and abnormal behavior / Jordan Smoller.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-06-149219-8 (hardback)

1. Behavior genetics. 2. Psychobiology. 3. Biological psychiatry. 4. Norm (Philosophy) I. Title.

QH457.S66 2012

591.5—dc23

2011040827

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