On the Nature and Nurture of Intelligence and Specific Cognitive Abilities: The More Heritable, the More Culture Dependent

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2420-2428

  Kan, Kees Jan ^a,c   Wicherts, Jelte M ^b,c   Dolan, Conor V ^a,c   van der Maas, Han L J ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

behavior genetics; cognitive ability; environmental effects; individual differences; intelligence

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TWINS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

COGNITION; CULTURE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; TWINS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84890376939     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613493292     Document Type: Article

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