Personality similarity in unrelated look-alike pairs: Addressing a twin study challenge

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-28

  Segal, Nancy L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Look alike; Personality; Self esteem; Twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867724234     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.07.031     Document Type: Article

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