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...Kagan has incorporated some of his research into a course he currently teaches, Social Analysis 42, "Biology, Culture, and Human Development...
...Kagan can foresee, in the future, his tests being applied on a wide level. "Concerned parents would take their child to the pediatrician in order to estimate the odds that he would be shy," Kagan said. However, before such a test can be administered in such a manner, it needs to be standardized, and pediatricians need to become interested in it, Kagan said...
According to Kagan, his work ushers in a new frontier in research. "There are many next steps [to my research]," he said. "There is genetics, [as well as] determining what it is that can change the disposition of a child...
Steven W. Matthysse, an associate professor of psychobiology who is pursuing genetic research related to Kagan's findings, said that Kagan's research is unique in its systematic isolation of variables related to behavioral characteristics...
...Kagan's colleagues were unequivocal in lauding the significance of his work. Philip S. Holzman, Rabb professor of psychology, said, "[Kagan's work] is state of the art research with an attractive feature--it effectively bridges the domains of behavior and physiology...