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Born | John Keith Hewitt July 14, 1952 |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, University of London University of Birmingham |
Awards | Dobzhansky Award (2008), James Shields Award (2016) |
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Fields | Psychology Behavioral genetics |
Institutions | University of Colorado Boulder |
Thesis | The Genetic Control of Activity, Reactivity and Learning in a Population of Wild Rats (rattus Norvegicus). (1978) |
Academic advisors | David Fulker, Lindon Eaves |
John Keith Hewitt (born July 14, 1952) is a British-American behavioral geneticist and professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics.[1] He was the Director of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics from 2000 - 2021. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1996.
Hewitt is the editor of the journal Behavior Genetics and past president of the Behavior Genetics Association.[2][3] He received the Dobzhansky Award of the Behavioral Genetics Association in 2008 and the James Shields Award of the International Society for Twin Studies in 2016.[4]
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