Nature, nurture, and conservatism in the Australian twin study
- 1 May 1993
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Behavior Genetics
- Vol. 23 (3) , 287-290
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01082468
Abstract
Church attendance, educational level, and six conservatism scales were the subject of a multivariate behavior-genetic analysis by Truettet al. (Behav. Genet. 22, 43–62, 1992), based on responses from a large sample of adult Australian twins. These data are here analyzed in a different way to elicit general conservatism factors in the genetic, shared environmental, and unshared environmental covariation. The general genetic factor appears mainly to reflect intellectual sophistication; the general environmental factors, religious affiliation. These factors are similar, although not identical, for men and women.Keywords
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