PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hemoglobin, Circulatory System, Voxel
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Major findings from behavioral genetic research: personality traits: summaries of behavioral genetic data yield heritability estimates for major personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience) of about 20- Current evidence suggests that genes provide modest and indirect influence (via childhood gender non-comformity) on adult sexual porientation. Twins and the relative contribution of genes and the environment o. Major findings from behavioural genetic research: attitudes and. Preferences: wide variance inheritability of attitudes, some attitudes (e. g. traditionalism) show high heritability (about . 60), whereas others show low or no heritability (e. g. beliefs in god, not clear why only some attitudes appear to be heritable. Heritability of happiness (lykken & tellegen, 1996: lykken & tellegen (1996) measured happiness, or subjective well- being, on a birth-record-based sample of 2,310 middle-aged twins, measured happiness using the well-being (wb) scale of the. Multidimensional personality questionnaire, ses, educational attainment, family income, marital status, and religious commitment: results:
