Hidden Brain

What Twins Tell Us

<p>In December 1988, two sets of identical twins became test subjects in a study for which they had never volunteered. It was an experiment that could never be performed in a lab, and had never before been documented. This week, we revisit this fascinating story, told by <a href="http://psychology.fullerton.edu/faculty/facultyprofiles/n_segal.aspx">psychologist Nancy Segal</a>, about the eternal tug between nature and nurture in shaping who we are.</p>
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