Assume That Personality Researchers Have Isolated a New Trait They

question 142

Multiple Choice

Assume that personality researchers have isolated a new trait they call "nescience." If these researchers report that sets of identical twins reared together and apart show the same correspondence for this particular trait, it would indicate that

• A)genetics has a larger influence than environment in the expression of nescience.
• B)environment has a larger influence than genetics in the expression of nescience.
• C)neither genetics nor environment influences the expression of nescience.
• D)genetics and environment exert equivalent influences in the expression of nescience.

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