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Adoption, Twins and the Genetics of Personality

Adoption, Twins and the Genetics of Personality

Update: 2023-01-29
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Penn State undergraduate Alexis Capel interviews professor Jenae Neiderhiser about her long-term, interdisciplinary  research investigations into the interplay between genetic and environmental factors that shape the personalities of children as they grow into adolescence. By focusing on the development of adopted children and twins raised in different situations, Dr. Neiderhiser (an adopted person herself) is able to observe how these different factors play out. 

Alexis Capel
Undergraduate Biological Anthropology student at Penn State. 

Jenae Neiderhiser
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. 

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Adoption, Twins and the Genetics of Personality

Adoption, Twins and the Genetics of Personality

Penn State's Center for Human Evolution and Diversity