Psychopathic personality traits, genetic risk, and gene-environment correlations

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 896-912

  Beaver, Kevin M ^a   Barnes, J C ^b   May, Joshua S ^a   Schwartz, Joseph A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Add Health; gene environment correlations; genetics; psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960731786     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854811411153     Document Type: Article

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