Richard J. Rose (born March 19, 1935) is an American psychologist and behavioral geneticist. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at

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and of Medical & Molecular Genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also a visiting professor at the

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. He received his

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from the

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in 1964, where he was advised by

David T. Lykken David Thoreson Lykken (June 18, 1928 – September 15, 2006) was a behavioral geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. He is best known for his work on twin studies and lie detection. Life B ...

. A founding member of the

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, 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

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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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