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Richard J. Rose (born March 19, 1935) is an American psychologist and behavioral geneticist. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington and of Medical & Molecular Genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1964, where he was advised by David T. Lykken. A founding member of the Behavior Genetics Association, he served as its president in 1999 and received its Dobzhansky Award in 2007. He is known for his research using twins to study human behavioral traits such as alcoholism and IQ. This included working as a consultant on the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart in the 1970s. He began collaborating with scientists at the University of Helsinki in 1984, and received an honorary doctorate from this university in 2009.

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1. "Rose, Richard J., 1935-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
2. Segal, Nancy L. (2012-06-18). Born Together—Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study. Harvard University Press. p. 355. ISBN 9780674065154.
3. "Richard J. Rose Biography" (PDF). University of Oulu. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
4. "Historical table of BGA Meetings". Behavior Genetics Association. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
5. "Teen drinking predicts adult alcoholism". Futurity. 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
6. "New light on genes and IQ from twin studies". New Scientist. Reed Business Information. 1979-09-20. p. 868. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
7. Chen, Edwin (1979-12-09). "TWINS REARED APART: A LIVING LAB". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
8. "Rose receives honorary doctorate". PsychNotes. 2009. Retrieved 2018-10-05.

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