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As an undergraduate student, I have learned about human behavioral genetics for the first time. Human behavioral genetics is the only methodology that allows us to examine the genetic and environmental influences separately, statistically, and without looking at genes and DNA directly, using observational data from questionnaire surveys and behavioral experiments. Human behavioral genetic research relies on different levels of genetic relatedness between monozygotic twin pairs who are genetically identical and dizygotic twin pairs who share an average of 50% of their genetic material. I was specifically attracted by the fact that there are things testable only by this methodology. In the research area of social sciences, several social challenges could be discussed after carefully differentiating the genetic and environmental effects, including the impact of educational environment, negative chain in child abuse, and reproduction of social stratification. In my research projects, I will work actively on accumulating more study results that indicate suggestions to tackle such social challenges.