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| Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2002): |
Genetic and environmental influences on human psychological differences.
Full Abstract
Psychological researchers typically distinguish five major domains of individual differences in human behavior:
cognitive abilities, personality, social attitudes, psychological interests, and psychopathology (Lubinski, 2000). In this article we:
discuss a number of methodological errors commonly found in research on human individual differences; introduce a broad framework for interpreting findings from contemporary behavioral genetic studies; briefly outline the basic quantitative methods used in human behavioral genetic research; review the major criticisms of behavior genetic designs, with particular emphasis on the twin and adoption methods; describe the major or dominant theoretical scheme in each domain; and review behavioral genetic findings in all five domains. We conclude that there is now strong evidence that virtually all individual psychological differences, when reliably measured, are moderately to substantially heritable.Copyright 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Author information
Author/s: Bouchard, Thomas J (TJ); McGue, Matt (M);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. bouch001@tc.umn.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Review
Journal: Journal of neurobiology (J Neurobiol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Jan; vol 54 (issue 1) : pp 4-45
Dates: Created 2002/12/17; Completed 2003/03/19; Revised 2007/11/15;
PMID: 12486697, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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