The Extended Genotype: The Heritability of Personality Accounts for the Heritability of Recalled Family Environments in Twins Reared Apart

Journal of Personality

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 809-833

  Krueger, Robert F ^a   Markon, Kristian E ^a   Bouchard Jr , Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENTING; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0142184148     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6494.7105005     Document Type: Review

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