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Cambridge University Press, Twin Research and Human Genetics, 06(17), p. 512-515

DOI: 10.1017/thg.2014.60

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The Genetic Correlation Between Procrastination and Impulsivity

Journal article published in 2014 by John C. Loehlin, Nicholas G. Martin ORCID
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Abstract

The reported genetic correlation of 1.0 between the traits of procrastination and impulsivity (Gustavson, D. E., Miyake, A., Hewitt, J. K., & Friedman, N. P. (2014). Psychological Science), which was held to support an evolutionary origin of the relationship between the two traits, was tested in data from two large samples of twins from Australia. A genetic correlation of 0.299 was obtained. It was concluded that, although the presence of a genetic correlation between the two traits was supported, the modest magnitude of the correlation was such as to be consistent with many possible hypotheses, evolutionary and otherwise, about causal relationships between the traits in question.