According to the Research to Date, for Most Personality Characteristics

question 115

Multiple Choice

According to the research to date, for most personality characteristics one would expect

• A) biological siblings to be more similar than adopted siblings.
• B) adopted children to be more similar to adopted parents than biological parents.
• C) males to be more similar to one another than females.
• D) none of the above.

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