Behavioral genetics of personality

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-56

  Torgersen, Svenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONDUCT DISORDER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DRUG DEPENDENCE; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; NARCISSISM; NEUROSIS; PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOPATHY; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 16844371155     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-005-0025-4     Document Type: Review

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