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Nature, nurture, and conservatism in the Australian twin study

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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.

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    John C. Loehlin

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Loehlin, J.C. Nature, nurture, and conservatism in the Australian twin study. Behav Genet 23, 287–290 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01082468

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