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Personality Psychology

Groups the studies whose central finding concerns the structure, origins or stability of individual differences in personality traits and temperament. Belongs here: the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, which used identical and fraternal twins separated in infancy to estimate the relative genetic and environmental contributions to adult personality and temperament. A study of a specific clinical, developmental or social behavior that happens to vary between individuals, without personality structure itself as the study's central question, is filed under the branch it more directly investigates.

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