Is introversion genetic?
~50% heritable
MindTwin 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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Where do you land?
Introversion / Extraversion
Ten questions from the Big Five. Mean score 30, SD 8.