The heritability of foreign policy preferences

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-59

  Cranmer, Skyler J ^a   Dawes, Christopher T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACE; bivariate; Cholesky; foreign policy preferences

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; MALE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SEX LIMITATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EDUCATION; ETHICS; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS; WAR;

FEMALE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; WAR;

EID: 84865587970     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.15.1.52     Document Type: Review

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