The personalities of twins: Just ordinary folks

W Johnson, RF Krueger, TJ Bouchard… - Twin Research and …, 2002 - cambridge.org
Twin studies have demonstrated that personality traits show moderate genetic influence.
The conclusions drawn from twin studies rely on the assumptions that twins are …

Comparing the biological and cultural inheritance of personality and social attitudes in the Virginia 30 000 study of twins and their relatives

L Eaves, A Heath, N Martin, H Maes… - Twin Research and …, 1999 - cambridge.org
Measures of four dimensions of personality (Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism, and
Lie scores) and six aspects of social attitudes (to sex, taxation, militarism, politics, religion …

Genetics and personality inventories: The limits of replication with twin data

G Carey, HH Goldsmith, A Tellegen, II Gottesman - Behavior Genetics, 1978 - Springer
The consistency of twin data with personality questionnaires is examined using all reported
twin samples which have been administered the California Psychological Inventory. The …

Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together

A Tellegen, DT Lykken, TJ Bouchard… - Personality and …, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
We administered the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) to 217 monozygotic
and 114 dizygotic reared-together adult twin pairs and 44 monozygotic and 27 dizygotic …

Normal and abnormal personality traits: Evidence for genetic and environmental relationships in the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart

KE Markon, RF Krueger, TJ Bouchard Jr… - Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have demonstrated substantial correlations between normal and abnormal
personality traits. Yet little is known about how these correlations are mediated genetically …

[图书][B] Personality differences and biological variations: A study of twins

G Claridge, S Canter, WI Hume - 2013 - books.google.com
Personality Differences and Biological Variations: A Study of Twins details a study aimed to
discover the genetic uniqueness of twins and the biological basis of their individual …

Heritability of MMPI personality indicators of psychopathology in twins reared apart.

DL DiLalla, G Carey, II Gottesman… - Journal of Abnormal …, 1996 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract This report presents Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) findings
from the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart. Data from 65 unique pairs of monozygotic …

The Genetics of Personality: What makes family members alike? Genetic similarity seems to be a far better predictor than environmental factors, according to adoption …

C Holden - Science, 1987 - science.org
W HEN Oskar Stohr and Jack Yufe arrived in Minneapolis to partici-pate in University of
Minnesota psychologist Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.'s study of identical twins reared apart, they …

Shared genes, shared experiences, and similarity of personality: data from 14,288 adult Finnish co-twins.

RJ Rose, M Koskenvuo, J Kaprio, S Sarna… - Journal of personality …, 1988 - psycnet.apa.org
Similarities for Extraversion (E) and Neuroticism (N) scale scores from the Eysenck
Personality Inventory were evaluated in 7,144 adult twin pairs, drawn from the population …

The twin condition and the couple effects on personality development

R Zazzo - Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin …, 1976 - cambridge.org
Twin psychology has been studied to a very limited extent. Only few remarkable peculiarities
of the twins' development are known for sure, such as delayed intellectual development …