The Trouble with Twin Studies: A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Routledge, Nov 20, 2014 - Psychology - 334 pages

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.

 

Contents

PART II Studies of RearedTogether Twins
151
PART III Approaching a PostBehavioralGenetics Era?
205
The Funding of MISTRA
253
A LittleKnown Behavioral Genetic Adoption Study Whose Results Contrast with the MISTRA Personality Findings
259
List of Quotations from Twin Researchers and Others Invoking the Twins Create Their Own Environment Argument A in Defense of the MZTDZT E...
267
Glossary
273
References
279
Index
308
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Jay Joseph, PsyD., is a licensed psychologist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1998 he has published two books, several book chapters, and many articles in peer reviewed journals, where he has presented a critical appraisal of genetic theories and research in psychiatry and psychology.

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