Vantage Sensitivity: Environmental Sensitivity to Positive Experiences as a Function of Genetic Differences

Journal of Personality

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 38-50

  Pluess, Michael ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84941312717     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12218     Document Type: Article

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