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Peer reviewedPlomin, Robert; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Focuses on possibility that correlations between measures of environment and child devleopment can be mediated genetically as well as environmentally. Proposing an elementary model to test this hypothesis, data from classical adoption studies and new data from the Colorado Adoption Project are used to illustrate the model and provide quantitative…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Biological Parents, Child Development
