The heritability of attitude toward economic risk

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-107

  Zhong, Songfa ^a   Chew, Soo Hong ^a,b   Set, Eric ^a   Zhang, Junsen ^c   Xue, Hong ^a   Sham, Pak C ^d   Ebstein, Richard P ^e   Israel, Salomon ^e  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behaviour genetics; Economic risk; Experimental economics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK-TAKING; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 60849134599     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.12.1.103     Document Type: Article

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