The Prosocial Personality and its Facets: Genetic and Environmental Architecture of Mother-reported Behavior of 7-year old Twins

The Prosocial Personality and its Facets: Genetic and Environmental Architecture of Mother-reported Behavior of 7-year old Twins

Children vary markedly in their tendency to behave prosocially, and recent research has implicated both genetic and environmental factors in this variability. Yet, little is known about the extent to which different aspects of prosociality constitute a single dimension (the prosocial personality), a...

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Main Authors: Ariel eKnafo-Noam, Florina eUzefovsky, Salomon eIsrael, Maayan eDavidov, Carolyn eZahn-Waxler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Empathy
Personality
Behavior Genetics
developmental psychology
Prosocial Behavior
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00112/full

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