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Origins of individual differences in imitation: links with language, pretend play, and socially insightful behavior in two-year-old twins.

Child development - 1 Jan 2000

McEwen Fiona, Happé Francesca, Bolton Patrick, Rijsdijk Fruhling, Ronald Angelica, Dworzynski Katharina, Plomin Robert

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Imitation, vocabulary, pretend play, and socially insightful behavior were investigated in 5,206 same- and opposite-sex 2-year-old twin pairs in the United Kingdom. Individual differences in imitative ability were due to modest heritability (30%), while environmental factors shared between twins (42%) and unique to each twin (28%) also made significant contributions to the variance. Imitation correlated...

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PMID: 17381785
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01010.x

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