Correlation between general factors for personality and cognitive skills in the National Merit twin sample

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 504-507

  Loehlin, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

G; General factor of personality (GFP); Nonadditive genetic variance; Selection; Twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052296790     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.06.011     Document Type: Article

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