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Is introversion genetic?

~50% heritable
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Twin studies put the heritability of extraversion-introversion at roughly 40 to 60%, among the highest for personality traits. Most of the remaining variance is 'non-shared environment', the experiences that differ even between siblings in the same home; shared family environment contributes little. Identical twins raised apart score far more alike than fraternal twins.

Source: Bouchard & McGue (2003), Journal of Neurobiology; Vukasović & Bratko (2015), Psychological Bulletin

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Introversion / Extraversion

Ten questions from the Big Five. Mean score 30, SD 8.

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