Genes, Culture, and Personality. An Empirical Approach

Content: Cover image
 Title page
 Table of Contents
 Copyright
 Authors
 Preface
 Chapter 1: Another Book on Heritability?
 1.1 PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL ATTITUDES
 1.2 AWAY FROM THE \"HERITABILITY HANG-UP\"
 1.3 PRESENTATION OF ORIGINAL DATA
 1.4 QUANTITATIVE MODELING AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING
 1.5 SUSTAINED STUDY OF SELECTED MEASURES
 Chapter 2: Dimensions of Personality
 Publisher Summary
 2.1 THEORIES OF PERSONALITY
 2.2 THE DESCRIPTION OF PERSONALITY
 2.3 TESTING THE MODEL FOR PERSONALITY
 2.4 CRITICISMS OF THE MODEL
 2.5 CAUSAL ASPECTS OF THE THEORY
 2.6 HEURISTIC VALUE. Chapter 3: The Classical Approach: Early Twin Studies of PersonalityPublisher Summary
 3.1 HISTORY OF THE TWIN METHOD
 3.2 ANALYZING TWIN DATA: THE CLASSICAL APPROACH
 3.3 THE SHARED ENVIRONMENT IN THE CLASSICAL APPROACH
 3.4 CRITICISM OF THE TWIN METHOD
 3.5 TWIN STUDIES OF PERSONALITY BEFORE 1976
 3.6 POWER AND SAMPLE SIZE
 3.7 EARLY TWIN STUDIES: A \"META-ANALYSIS\"
 3.8 SUMMARY
 Chapter 4: Introduction to Model Fitting
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 4.1 WHAT\'S WRONG WITH THE OLD WAY?
 4.2 MODEL BUILDING
 4.3 MODEL FITTING
 4.4 SUMMARY
 Chapter 5: Adult Twin Studies of the Major Personality Dimensions. Publisher Summary5.1 THE LONDON DATA
 5.2 THE US STUDY
 5.3 THE SWEDISH STUDY
 5.4 THE AUSTRALIAN STUDY
 5.5 SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION
 Chapter 6: Further Tests of the Model: Studies of Adoptees and Extended Families
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 6.1 ASSORTATIVE MATING FOR THE DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY
 6.2 ADOPTIONS AND EXTENDED KINSHIPS: THE LONDON STUDY
 6.3 THE EXTENDED KINSHIPS OF TWINS
 6.4 SEPARATED TWINS
 6.5 OTHER ADOPTION STUDIES OF EXTRAVERSION AND NEUROTICISM
 6.6 SUMMARY
 Chapter 7: Personality Development and Change: A Genetic Perspective
 Publisher Summary. 7.1 ANALYSIS OF P, E, N AND L IN JUVENILE TWINS7.2 THE CAUSES OF DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY AND CHANGE
 7.3 DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN GENE EXPRESSION IN ADULTS
 7.4 STABILITY AND CHANGE IN PERSONALITY
 Chapter 8: The Genetic Analysis of Individual EPQ Items
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 8.1 THE DATA
 8.2 MODELS
 8.3 ESTIMATION
 8.4 EXAMPLE
 8.5 RESULTS
 8.7 DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY
 Chapter 9: The Specificity of Gene Effects: Implications for the Interaction of Persons and Situations
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 9.1 PERSONALITY TRAITS AND PERSONS × SITUATIONS INTERACTION
 9.2 THE DATA
 9.3 ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE. 9.4 GENETIC ANALYSIS9.5 DO GENES AFFECT SHORT-TERM PERSONALITY CHANGE?
 9.6 DISCUSSION
 Chapter 10: Genetic and Environmental Covariance Between Traits
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 10.1 GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COVARIANCE: A BIVARIATE STUDY
 10.2 A BIVARIATE EXAMPLE: THE NATURE OF EXTRA VERSION
 10.3 THE COMPONENTS OF IMPULSIVENESS
 10.4 THE COVARIANCE STRUCTURE OF NEUROTICISM
 10.5 CONCLUSION
 Chapter 11: Normal Personality and Symptoms of Psychiatric Disorder: A Genetic Relationship?
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 11.1 THE THRESHOLD MODEL FOR INDIVIDUAL SYMPTOMS.