Dr Nancy L Segal, PhD

Nancy L Segal, Ph.D.

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nsegal@fullerton.edu

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CURRENT STUDIES

  • Quick Hand Survey for Professionals
  • New Twin Study of Fashion
  • Gender Background and::Inventory Male-Female Pair
  • Handedness Study for PhDs, MDs, JDs
  • Gender Background and::Inventory - Females
  • Gender Background and::Inventory - Males
  • Twin Type
  • Virtual Twins Study
  • Twins Who Are Parents
  • Twinless Twins (Download)
  • Twinless Twins (Online)
  • Chinese Twins Raised::Apart and Together
  • Tacit Coordination Study
  • Unrelated Look-Alike Study

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  • Accidental Brothers
  • Gay Fathers, Twin Sons
  • Deliberately Divided
  • Twin Mythconceptions
  • Born Together - Reared Apart
  • Someone Elses's Twin
  • Entwined Lives
  • Indivisible by Two
  • Uniting Psychology and Biology
  • The Twin Children of the Holocaust

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About Dr. Nancy L. Segal

Dr. Nancy L. Segal received a B.A. degree in psychology (with distinction) and English literature from Boston University (1973), and M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees in Social Sciences and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago. She is currently Professor of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) and Director of the Twin Studies Center which she founded in 1991.

Dr. Segal is the CSUF 2004-2005 Distinguished Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences and the 2004-5 Outstanding Professor of the Year. She also received the 2005 James Shields Award for Lifetime Contributions to Twin Research, from the Behavior Genetics Association and International Society for Twin Studies and the 2006 “International Making a Difference” Award from Multiple Births Canada. Most recently, she was the 2016 recipient of California State University’s campus-wide Wang Family Excellence Award.

Dr. Segal has written several new books about twins. The first is Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts About Twins (San Diego: Elsevier, April 2017) and the second is Accidental Brothers: The Story of Twins Exchanged at Birth and the Power of Nature and Nurture (NY: St. Martin’s Press, to be released in April 2018). She is also is the author of the award-winning Born Together-Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), as well as Someone Else’s Twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2011), Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005) and Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior (NY: Dutton, 1999, NY: Plume 2000), and is the senior editor of Uniting Psychology and Biology: Integrative Perspectives on Human Development (Washington, D.C.: APA Press, 1997).

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Current Studies

  • Chinese Twins Raised Apart and Together

    Chinese Twin Children Reared Apart and Reunited: First Prospective Study of Co-Twin Reunions...

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  • Tacit Coordination Study

    Tacit coordination in monozygotic twins, dizygotic twins and virtual twins: Effects and...

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  • Twinless Twins

    Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins’ Retrospective and Current Bereavement-related Behaviors: An...

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  • Twins Who Are Parents

    Social closeness and gift giving by twin parents toward nieces and nephews: An update Get the...

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  • Unrelated Look-Alike Study

    A common misconception is that identical co-twins’ personality resemblance results from their...

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  • Virtual Twins Study

    Intellectual similarity of virtual twin pairs: Developmental trends Virtual twins (VTs) are...

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