Miserliness is heritable

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1052-1055

  Hur, Yoon Mi ^a   Jeong, Hoe Uk ^a   Schermer, Julie Aitken ^b   Philippe Rushton, J ^b  

^a Mokpo National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economic behavior; Environment; Genes; Miserliness; Personality; Twin

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053243505     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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