Transmission of attitudes toward abortion and gay rights: Effects of genes, social learning and mate selection

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-256

  Eaves, Lindon J ^a   Hatemi, Peter K ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Assortative mating; Gay rights; Political and social attitudes

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL LEARNING;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; PREJUDICE;

EID: 41849100655     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-008-9205-4     Document Type: Article

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