The recent increase in the number of studies designed to document the contributions of biological processes to human psychological variation has been accompanied by a decreased interest in discovering the particular experiences that are associated with class of rearing and identifications that contribute to the same outcomes. This editorial suggests 4 reasons for this state of affairs. They are the technological advances in biology; the favorable attitude toward materialistic explanations; the failure by earlier generations of social scientists to acknowledge the influences of temperamental biases and identifications with family, class, and ethnicity; and an emerging sentiment characterized by a reluctance to assign responsibility to victims for their states of distress.
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