Adoption studies typically compare pairs of persons, e.g., adopted child and adoptive mother or adopted child and biological mother, to assess genetic...

The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study examined the IQ test scores of 130 black or interracial children adopted by advantaged white families. It has...

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal...

A home study or homestudy is a screening of the home and life of prospective adoptive parents prior to allowing an adoption to take place. In some places...

that are genetically informative – siblings studies, adoption studies, pedigree, etc. These studies have been used to track traits ranging from personal...

from adoption studies, Mackintosh finds that environmental and genetic variables remain confounded and considers evidence from adoption studies inconclusive...

family, twin and adoption studies marks the huge contribution for laying down the foundation for current molecular genetic studies to study human behaviour...

Interracial adoption (historically referred to as transracial adoption) refers to the act of placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive...

Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study (SIBS) is a study of >600 adoptive and non-adoptive families. The adoption study design allows one to disentangle...

Pet adoption is the process of transferring responsibility for a pet. Common sources for adoptable pets are animal shelters, rescue groups, or other pet...

Stanislaw (1999). "How can we boost IQs of 'dull children'?: A late adoption study". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96 (15): 8790–4....

International adoption (also referred to as intercountry adoption or transnational adoption) is a type of adoption in which an individual or couple residing...

permits the disassociation of genes and environment is adoption. In one kind of adoption study, biological siblings reared together (who share the same...

Retrieved 2017-03-30. "Manitoba Follow-up Study – About The Study". Retrieved 1 December 2016. "Adoption study records of the Child Development Center Finding...

(October 2008). "Parental smoking and adolescent problem behavior: an adoption study of general and specific effects". The American Journal of Psychiatry...

studies – studies that use scientific data and attempt to correlate it with actual human behavior. Examples include twin studies and adoption studies...

Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children or adults by same-sex couples. It may take the form of a joint adoption by the couple, or of the adoption by one...

do not consider polygenic or continuous scale variable scenarios. Adoption studies have been used to investigate how similar individuals that have been...

Open adoption is a form of adoption in which the biological and adoptive families have access to varying degrees of each other's personal information and...

The international adoption of South Korean children started around 1953 as a measure to take care of the large number of mixed children that became orphaned...

be considered as an indirect measure. In the course of the Minnesota Adoption Study it was found that "the F-scale scores were negatively correlated with...

Islamic views on adoption are generally distinct from practices and customs of adoption in other non-Muslim parts of the world like Western or East Asian...

the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2013. "PayPass Adoption Study". MasterCard Advisors. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021....

Adoptionism, also called dynamic monarchianism, is an early Christian nontrinitarian theological doctrine, subsequently revived in various forms, which...

their eventual discovery that their adoption had been part of an undisclosed scientific "nature versus nurture" study of the development of genetically...

The technology adoption lifecycle is a sociological model that describes the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation, according to the demographic...

resources for the study of development, including the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study and the Minnesota Adolescent Adoption Study. She served as president...

The second-parent adoption or co-parent adoption is a process by which a partner, who is not biologically related to the child, can adopt their partner's...

Adoption in ancient Rome was primarily a legal procedure for transferring paternal power (potestas) to ensure succession in the male line within Roman...

This question led to longitudinal studies of people with each of these disorders and then family and adoption studies. In order to better quantify and...