Social contact, social attitudes, and twin similarity

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-133

  Posner, Samuel F ^a   Baker, Laura ^a   Heath, Andrew ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; contact; twin similarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; BIOMETRY; HUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SIBLING RELATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030012007     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02359890     Document Type: Article

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