The Trouble with Twin Studies: A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social and Behavioral SciencesThe 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. |
Contents
Studies of RearedApart Twins The Critics Respond | |
Studies of RearedApart Twins Basic Assumptions and Potential Fallacies | |
The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart I Biases Assumptions and Other | |
The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart II IQ and Personality Studies | |
The MztDzt Equal Environment Assumption The Achilles Heel of | |
Twin Research in Psychiatry | |
Molecular Genetic Research The Ultimate Test of Genetic Interpretations | |
The Crumbling Pillars of Behavioral Genetics | |
A Human Genetics Parable | |
The Funding of MISTRA | |
List of Quotations from Twin Researchers and Others Invoking | |
reference | |
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The Trouble with Twin Studies: A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social ... Jay Joseph No preview available - 2016 |
The Trouble with Twin Studies: A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social ... Jay Joseph No preview available - 2015 |
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