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What Virtual Twins Reveal About General Intelligence and Other Behaviors.

Nancy L Segal1, Shirley A McGuire, Joanne Hoven Stohs.   

Abstract

The Fullerton Virtual Twin Study has been assessing the behaviors of an unusual sibship since 1982. Virtual twins (VTs) are same-age, unrelated siblings reared together since infancy. They replicate the rearing situation of twins but without the genetic link, enabling direct assessment of shared environmental effects on behavior. An updated analysis of IQ data, based on an increased sample of 142 VT pairs (7.87 years, SD=8.22), is presented. Intraclass correlations of .28 (IQ) and .11 (subtest profile) indicated modest shared environmental influences on intelligence. Findings from the Twins, Adoptees, Peers and Siblings (TAPS) project that studies virtual twins and other kinships are described.

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Year:  2012        PMID： 22711965      PMCID： PMC3375824          DOI： 10.1016/j.paid.2011.11.019

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Pers Individ Dif        ISSN： 0191-8869


  12 in total

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Journal:  Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord       Date:  2002-04

2.  Intellectual similarity of virtual twin pairs: Developmental trends.

Authors:  Nancy L Segal; Shirley A McGuire; June Havlena; Patricia Gill; Scott L Hershberger
Journal:  Pers Individ Dif       Date:  2007-05

3.  Peer network overlap in twin, sibling, and friend dyads.

Authors:  Shirley McGuire; Nancy L Segal
Journal:  Child Dev       Date:  2012-09-19

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5.  Heredity-environment analyses of Jencks's IQ correlations.

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Journal:  Behav Genet       Date:  1978-09       Impact factor: 2.805

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Authors:  T J Bouchard; M McGue
Journal:  Science       Date:  1981-05-29       Impact factor: 47.728

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Authors:  J M Horn; J C Loehlin; L Willerman
Journal:  Behav Genet       Date:  1982-09       Impact factor: 2.805

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Authors:  J M Horn; J C Loehlin; L Willerman
Journal:  Behav Genet       Date:  1979-05       Impact factor: 2.805

9.  Parenting as Phenotype: A Behavioral Genetic Approach to Understanding Parenting.

Authors:  Shirley McGuire; Nancy L Segal; Scott Hershberger
Journal:  Parent Sci Pract       Date:  2012-06-14

10.  Genetic and environmental contributions to body mass index: comparative analysis of monozygotic twins, dizygotic twins and same-age unrelated siblings.

Authors:  N L Segal; R Feng; S A McGuire; D B Allison; S Miller
Journal:  Int J Obes (Lond)       Date:  2008-11-25       Impact factor: 5.095
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  2 in total

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Authors:  Nikunjkumar Patel; Barbara Wiśniowska; Masoud Jamei; Sebastian Polak
Journal:  AAPS J       Date:  2017-11-27       Impact factor: 4.009

2.  What Can Mobile Sensing and Assessment Strategies Capture About Human Subjectivity?

Authors:  Bruno Biagianti
Journal:  Front Digit Health       Date:  2022-04-15
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