Genetic determinants and personality correlates of sociopolitical attitudes in a Polish sample

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-52

  Oniszczenko, Wlodzimierz ^a   Jakubowska, Urszula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ECONOMICS; EXPERIENCE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKET; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORALITY; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; POLAND; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; POLAND; POLITICS;

EID: 16444365211     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/1832427053435364     Document Type: Article

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