Nature, nurture, and conservatism in the Australian Twin Study.
Church attendance, educational level, and six conservatism scales were the subject of a multivariate behavior-genetic analysis by Truett et 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.
Loehlin
J C
JC
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin 78712.
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010551:Personality / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D012931:Social Environment; D012945:Social Values; D014429:Twins, Dizygotic / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology