Similarity of childhood experiences and personality resemblance in monozygotic and dizygotic twins: A test of the equal environments assumption

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 261-269

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

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavior genetics; Equal environments assumption; Genetic influence; Shared environment; Twin studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037135240     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00150-7     Document Type: Article

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