| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; PART 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 |
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PART II Studies of Reared-Together Twins7 The MZT-DZT Equal Environment Assumption: The Achilles Heel of the Classical Twin Method; 8 Twin Research in Psychiatry; PART 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; Appendix A: The Funding of MISTRA; Appendix B: A Little-Known Behavioral Genetic Adoption Study Whose Results Contrast with the MISTRA Personality Findings |
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Appendix C: List of Quotations from Twin Researchers and Others Invoking the "Twins Create Their Own Environment" Argument A in Defense of the MZT-DZT Equal Environment Assumption of the Twin Method: 1954-2014Glossary; References; Index |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-307) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Twins.
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Twins -- Psychology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Twins.
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Twins -- Psychology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317605911 |
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1317605918 |
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