Open AccessTwin Studies: What Can They Tell us About Nature and Nurture?
Author(s) -
Guang Guo
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
contexts
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1537-6052
pISSN - 1536-5042
DOI - 10.1525/ctx.2005.4.3.43
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , twin study , behavioural genetics , personality , biology , big five personality traits , psychology , genetics , evolutionary biology , developmental psychology , social psychology , heritability
Twin studies used to be almost the only way to compare the influence of genes against the environment on personality and behavior. Recent advances in genetics, however, suggest that opposing “nature” to “nurture” is misleading. Genes combine with the environment to produce complex human traits.
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