Twins: The finest natural experiment

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 317-323

  Segal, Nancy L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dizygotic twins; Monozygotic twins; Natural experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953364240     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.11.014     Document Type: Article

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