S. Alexandra Burt
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S. Alexandra Burt | |
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| Born | Sybil Alexandra Burt |
| Education | Emory University University of Minnesota |
| Known for | Twin studies |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Behavior genetics |
| Institutions | Michigan State University |
| Thesis | The nature of the association between parent-child conflict and childhood externalizing pathology (2004) |
| Doctoral advisors | Matthew McGue William Iacono |
Sybil Alexandra Burt is an American psychologist and behavior geneticist. She is professor of psychology at Michigan State University and the co-director of its Michigan State University Twin Registry. She is known for researching the role of genetic factors in parenting[1][2] and popularity.[3] She has also researched the link between antisocial behavior and marriage, finding that the relationship appears to be bidirectional: in her research, men with fewer antisocial behaviors were more likely to get married, and once they did so, their rates of antisocial behavior decreased even more.[4][5]
