Literature DB >> 987782

Relations between twins' similarity of appearance and behavioral similarity: testing an assumption.

A P Matheny, R S Wilson, A B Dolan.   

Abstract

Questionnaires rating twins' physical similarity and similarity of dress were obtained from the parents of 121 identical and 70 same-sex fraternal twin pairs. Within-pair difference scores on several behavioral measures (two intelligence tests, two perceptual tests, one reading test, one test of speech articulation, and one personality inventory) were correlated with the twins' scores for physical similarity and similarity of dress. The correlations revealed no systematic relation between the similarity of appearance and the similarity of behaviors for either the identical twin pairs or the same-sex fraternal twin pairs. The assumption that twins' behaviors are more alike because they are more similar in appearance does not seem warranted.

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Year:  1976        PMID： 987782     DOI： 10.1007/bf01065729

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Behav Genet        ISSN： 0001-8244            Impact factor:   2.805


  10 in total

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Authors:  R CEDERLOF; L FRIBERG; E JONSSON; L KAIJ
Journal:  Acta Genet Stat Med       Date:  1961

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Authors:  D J Cohen; E Dibble; J M Grawe; W Pollin
Journal:  Arch Gen Psychiatry       Date:  1975-11

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Authors:  B PRICE
Journal:  Am J Hum Genet       Date:  1950-12       Impact factor: 11.025

4.  Resemblance in appearance and the equal environments assumption in twin studies of personality traits.

Authors:  R Plomin; L Willerman; J C Loehlin
Journal:  Behav Genet       Date:  1976-01       Impact factor: 2.805

5.  Hereditary components of response to the double trapezium illusion.

Authors:  A P Matheny
Journal:  Percept Mot Skills       Date:  1973-04

6.  Children's speech: hereditary components and sex differences.

Authors:  A P Matheny; C E Bruggemann
Journal:  Folia Phoniatr (Basel)       Date:  1973-12

7.  Separating identical from fraternal twins.

Authors:  D J Cohen; E Dibble; J M Grawe; W Pollin
Journal:  Arch Gen Psychiatry       Date:  1973-10

Review 8.  A reinterpretation of the direction of effects in studies of socialization.

Authors:  R Q Bell
Journal:  Psychol Rev       Date:  1968-03       Impact factor: 8.934

9.  The diagnosis of twin zygosity.

Authors:  R C Nichols; W C Bilbro
Journal:  Acta Genet Stat Med       Date:  1966

Review 10.  Contributions of twin research to psychology.

Authors:  S G Vandenberg
Journal:  Psychol Bull       Date:  1966-11       Impact factor: 17.737
  10 in total
  4 in total

1.  Physical similarity and the equal-environment assumption in twin studies of psychiatric disorders.

Authors:  J M Hettema; M C Neale; K S Kendler
Journal:  Behav Genet       Date:  1995-07       Impact factor: 2.805

2.  Personality resemblance in adoptive families.

Authors:  J C Loehlin; J M Horn; L Willerman
Journal:  Behav Genet       Date:  1981-07       Impact factor: 2.805

3.  Heritability of lung disease severity in cystic fibrosis.

Authors:  Lori L Vanscoy; Scott M Blackman; Joseph M Collaco; Amanda Bowers; Teresa Lai; Kathleen Naughton; Marilyn Algire; Rita McWilliams; Suzanne Beck; Julie Hoover-Fong; Ada Hamosh; Dave Cutler; Garry R Cutting
Journal:  Am J Respir Crit Care Med       Date:  2007-03-01       Impact factor: 21.405

4.  A test of the equal-environment assumption in twin studies of psychiatric illness.

Authors:  K S Kendler; M C Neale; R C Kessler; A C Heath; L J Eaves
Journal:  Behav Genet       Date:  1993-01       Impact factor: 2.805
  4 in total

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