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Similarity in General Cognitive Ability, Creativity, and Cognitive Style in a Sample of Adolescent Russian Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

E.L. Grigorenko ,
M.C. LaBuda  and
A.S. Carter
E.L. Grigorenko
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
M.C. LaBuda*
Affiliation:
Department of Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
A.S. Carter
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Department of Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
*
Yale Child Study Center, 230 S. Frontage Road, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Abstract

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Data on five tests of general and specific cognitive abilities, cognitive styles, and creativity, obtained from members of 60 identical and 63 fraternal Russian adolescent twin pairs, are presented. All tests are adaptations of standardized instruments widely used outside of the Soviet Union. Identical and fraternal twin correlations for general cognitive ability yielded a lower estimate of heritability (0.29) than generally found in other countries worldwide (0.52) although the twin correlations themselves are fairly comparable to figures from other countries and cultures — 0.83 and 0.69 for Russian identical and fraternal twin pairs, respectively, vs 0.86 and 0.60 for non-Russian identical, and fraternal twin pairs. Twin correlations for other cognitive-related abilities assessed were also comparable to correlations obtained outside the Soviet Union with the exception of creativity which yielded higher within-pair resemblance than reported in previous twin studies.

Keywords

CreativityCognitive abilitiesTwins
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 65 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1992

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