M. Frank Norman, Department of Psychology
mfnorman@gmail.com, 2/16/2010
Interests:
Behavioral genetics, evolution, evolutionary psychology, individual differences, statistics, probability, linear systems theory, and computers.
Degrees:
B.A., Dartmouth, Psychology, 1961.
Ph.D., Stanford, Statistics, 1965.
Selected publications:
Genetic influences on behavior, in L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2002, 354-360.
(With K. G. Noble and M. J. Farah) Neurocognitive correlates of socioeconomic status in kindergarten children, Developmental Science, 2005, 8, 74-87.
A very simple model for declining mean fitness, Journal of Bioeconomics, 2005, 7, 157-160.
(With Michael T. Purkey, Marc S. Levine, Brandon Prendes, and Natasha Mirza), Predictors of aspiration pneumonia following radiotherapy for head and neck cancer, Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, 2009, 118, 811-816.
Markov Processes and Learning Models, Academic Press, 1972; Elsevier Digital Edition, 2009.
Course materials:
BFS Psychology 278
(Constraints on Family Size, offered in Fall, 2008)
***New***: Notes for a course in Behavioral Genetics and Evolution
Other web documents:
Evolutionary Response to Natural Selection in a Large Population: an Interactive Grapher for the simplest model.
Models with Selection on Both Viability and Fertility (Fecundity): Introduction and Interactive Grapher. These models predict declining population mean fitness under certain conditions.
Evolution with Selection and Random Genetic Drift: Instructions and Simulator