Happiness in Behaviour Genetics: An Update on Heritability and Changeability

2016/07/28 by Ragnhild Bang Nes, Espen Røysamb · 1 citation
Psychology · #Affect (linguistics) #Aging and Gerontology Research #Behavioural genetics #Biology #Developmental psychology #Genetic variants #Genetics #Genotype #Happiness #Heritability #Missing heritability problem #Optimism, Hope, and Well-being #Positive psychology #Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction #Psychological intervention #Psychology #Situational ethics #Social psychology #Twin study #Variation (astronomy)

paper · doi:10.1007/s10902-016-9781-6

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• Happiness [wikipedia]