German Observational Study of Adult Twins (GOSAT): A multimodal investigation of personality, temperament and cognitive ability

Twin Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 372-375

  Spinath, Frank M ^a   Angleitner, Alois ^a   Borkenau, Peter ^b   Riemann, Rainer ^c   Wolf, Heike ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; COGNITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA DETERMINATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERAMENT; TWINS;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE LIBRARY; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERAMENT; TWINS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0036807902     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/136905202320906110     Document Type: Article

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