Social contact, social attitudes, and twin similarity
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Social contact, social attitudes, and twin similarity.
The nature of the relationship between social contact and attitude similarly between twins was investigated using longitudinal data from a sample of Australian twins. Earlier research has suggested that social attitudes are not explained solely by shared environment; rather there are both genetic and environmental components that explain variance in social attitudes. Using three types of analys...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavior Genetics
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0001-8244,1573-3297
DOI: 10.1007/bf02359890