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25431285
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The genetic correlation between procrastination and impulsivity.
ABSTRACT
The reported genetic correlation of 1.0 between the traits of procrastination and impulsivity (Gustavson, D. E., Miyake, A., Hewitt, J. K., & Friedman, N. P. (2014). Psychological Science), which was held to support an evolutionary origin of the relationship between the two traits, was tested in data from two large samples of twins from Australia. A genetic correlation of 0.299 was obtained. It was concluded that, although the presence of a genetic correlation between the two traits was supported, the modest magnitude of the correlation was such as to be consistent with many possible hypotheses, evolutionary and otherwise, about causal relationships between the traits in question.
DATE PUBLISHED
2014 Dec
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
entrez 2014/11/29 06:00
pubmed 2014/11/29 06:00
medline 2014/11/29 06:00
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NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Loehlin JC Loehlin John C JC Department of Psychology,University of Texas at Austin,Austin,TX,USA.
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG QIMR Berghofer Medical Reaearch Institute,Brisbane,Queensland,Australia.
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VOLUME: 17
ISSUE: 6
TITLE: Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
ISOABBREVIATION: Twin Res Hum Genet
YEAR: 2014
MONTH: Dec
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CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1832-4274
ISSNTYPE: Print
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MEDLINETA: Twin Res Hum Genet
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1832-4274
NLMUNIQUEID: 101244624
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