In the primary body of this paper, we provide extensive but still illustrative G × E evidence to this effect, most of it very recent and much of which has gone unnoticed, even at times by the investigators generating it. What follows should not be regarded as an exhaustive review of the literature; however, nor should it be seen to imply, much less demonstrate, that evidence of differential susceptibility outweighs evidence of diathesis–stress, either in the literature as a whole or even in each and every study cited for illustrative purposes. To make the case, as we exclusively seek to, that differential susceptibility seems operative in human development and functioning, but that individual differences in plasticity have been largely overlooked—in favor of prevailing views that some individuals are simply more vulnerable to adversity than others—it is our contention that an admittedly selective compilation of illustrative G × E findings is exactly what is appropriate at the present time. This would seem especially so in light of the fact that almost all the available human G × E research focuses on
