The topic for my research paper is whether twins, when separated and venture into the real world, stay incredibly similar because of the borderline identical gene pattern they posses or because of the environment they are raised in. Twins have been the subject of numerous scholarly studies over the past century, and their phenomena in the human existence has motivated people to ask the question of whether it really is genetics that makes twins so similar or could it be their surroundings that prove to be the biggest influence. There is much more evidence supporting nature in the argument, because it is much easier to prove that genes are the cause of similarity in twins. Therefore, twins are so similar due to the genetic predisposition they posses to have the same qualities and personalities as each other.
The sources I have already found have been for the topic of nature versus nurture in psychology as a whole, therefore not specifically for twin studies specifically. This means that I am not necessarily starting from scratch, but rather altering the sources AI have found to support my more narrowed down topic. Also, I plan on searching for more research that will specifically support genetic predisposition in twin studies, for which there is a multitude of sources out there that will do the job.
There are several problems I can see myself running into with my research paper, one being that I might have made my topic too specific from the overly general topic of nature versus nurture. With this in mind, I might add on another aspect of nature versus nurture that supports nature, such as how criminals and psychopaths become who they are. Also, the fact that there is no right or wrong answer to the subject makes it much more difficult to prove why nurture doesn't have the same impact as nature does in the argument, but as a response to that I will give convincing evidence and back it up with logical reasoning as to why nature is more of an influence.
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