The New Look of Behavioral Genetics in Social Inequality: Gene-Environment Interplay and Life Chances

Journal of Personality

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 5-9

  Spinath, Frank M ^a   Bleidorn, Wiebke ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85009231204     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12268     Document Type: Article

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