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Health Psychology
A. C. Heath
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The resolution of cultural and biological inheritance: Informativeness of different relationships
The informativeness of different relationships for resolving the genetic and cultural transmission of a continuous variable is explored by computer simulation. Extended twin, extended nuclear-family, and adopt...
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No decline in assortative mating for educational level
Education data from the Norwegian twin panel reveal no decline in the marital correlation for educational attainment for the past 35 years. Comparable marital correlations are found for British and American sa...
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Resolving the effects of phenotype and social background on mate selection
Traditional studies of mate selection have not addressed the question of how a marital correlation arises. The common assumption that assortative mating is based on phenotype has not been properly tested. Soci...
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A note on the generalized effects of assortative mating
Several twin studies of multiple abilities and educational and socioeconomic variables suggest that a single common factor underlies the contribution of mate selection and cultural inheritance to the covariati...
