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Genetics, the Big Five, and the tendency to be self-employed.

The Journal of applied psychology - 1 Nov 2010

Shane Scott, Nicolaou Nicos, Cherkas Lynn, Spector Tim D

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We applied multivariate genetics techniques to a sample of 3,412 monozygotic and dizygotic twins from the United Kingdom and 1,300 monozygotic and dizygotic twins from the United States to examine whether genetic factors account for part of the covariance between the Big Five personality characte...

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PMID: 20718525
DOI: 10.1037/a0020294

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