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Nature vs Nurture

A topic within Developmental Psychology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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Paper2000

Three Laws of Behavior Genetics and What They Mean

Eric Turkheimer

Summarises decades of twin and adoption research into three laws: nearly every trait is heritable, growing up in the same family matters less than being genetically related, and a large share of variance in complex traits is left unexplained by either genes or shared family environment.

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Paper1987

Why Are Children in the Same Family So Different from One Another?

Robert Plomin & Denise Daniels

Behavioural genetic data show that shared family environment contributes little to personality and cognitive differences between siblings, so environmental influence on development operates mainly through experiences that differ within the same family rather than through the family setting they share.

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