Habits Quote by Kevin DeYoung

A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very often have…

— Laura Berman

“The other trait particularly influenced by upbringing is appreciation. The twin and adoption studies show that “parents have a noticeable effect on how kids…

— Kevin DeYoung

“Even without world wars, revolutions and emigration, siblings growing up in the same home almost never share the same environment. More accurately, brothers and…

— Gabor Maté

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and…

— Ashley Olsen

“Although nurture does not change our basic personality type, it can in some ways cloud or impair our ability to accurately perceive our true…

— Anonymous

“Though culture and home environment play important roles in the overall shaping of a person, we have learned that children have an inborn tendency…

— Elizabeth Wagele

Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.

— Jeanne Phillips

“The evidence from behavior genetics and twin studies indicating that 40 to 50 percent of the variance among people in temperament, personality, and many…

— Michael Shermer

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching…

— Jeffrey Kluger

I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance…

— Alex Hirsch

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment…

— John B. S. Haldane

“The picture that emerged from the Minnesota study was not that reared-apart twins were identical, but that they shared a powerful tendency toward similar…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee