Sources of human psychological differences: the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart.

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Sources of human psychological differences: the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 12 Oct 1990

Bouchard T J, Lykken D T, McGue M, Segal N L, Tellegen A

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Since 1979, a continuing study of monozygotic and dizygotic twins, separated in infancy and reared apart, has subjected more than 100 sets of reared-apart twins or triplets to a week of intensive psychological and physiological assessment. Like the prior, smaller studies of monozygotic twins rear...

Topics

Adult
Analysis of Variance
Anthropometry
Child
Child Rearing
Humans
Intelligence
Minnesota
Personality
Phenotype
Twins
Twins, Dizygotic
Twins, Monozygotic

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