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The trouble with twin studies :

1138813060 (hardback)

131574838X

9781138813069 (hardback)

9781315748382

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The trouble with twin studies :

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a reassessment of twin research in the social and behavioral sciences /

Jay Joseph.

xiv, 321 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-307) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Studies of Reared-Apart Twins: Scientific Proof or Scientific Illusion? -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Studies of Reared-Apart Twins: Origins, Publications, and Scandal -- 3.Studies of Reared-Apart Twins: The Critics Respond -- 4.Studies of Reared-Apart Twins: Basic Assumptions and Potential Fallacies -- 5.The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart I: Biases, Assumptions, and Other Problem Areas -- 6.The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart II: IQ and Personality Studies -- pt. II Studies of Reared-Together Twins -- 7.The MZT-DZT Equal Environment Assumption: The Achilles Heel of the Classical Twin Method -- 8.Twin Research in Psychiatry -- pt. III Approaching a Post-Behavioral-Genetics Era? -- 9.Molecular Genetic Research: The Ultimate Test of Genetic Interpretations of Twin Studies -- 10.The Crumbling Pillars of Behavioral Genetics -- 11.A Human Genetics Parable -- 12.Summary and Conclusions.

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"The Trouble with Twin Studies questions popular genetic explanations of human behavioral differences based upon the existing body of twin research. Psychologist Jay Joseph outlines the fallacies of twin studies in the context of the ongoing decades-long failure to discover genes for human behavioral differences, including IQ, personality, and the major psychiatric disorders. This volume critically examines twin research, with a special emphasis on reared-apart twin studies, and incorporates new and updated perspectives, analyses, arguments, and evidence. "--

Twins-- Psychology.

Twins.

Behavioral Research-- methods.

Research Design.

Social Sciences-- methods.

Twin Studies as Topic.

Twins-- psychology.

Joseph, Jay.

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