Do Genetic Factors Influence Religious Life? Findings from a Behavior Genetic Analysis of Twin Siblings.
Social scientific research assumes that religious involvement is primarily, if not exclusively, the product of social-environmental influences There is growing evidence, however, that genetic or other biological factors also play a role Analyzing twin sibling data from the National Survey of Midlife...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 529 - 545 |
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