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Molecular Genetics, Personality and Internet Addiction

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Mounting evidence suggests that personality plays an important role for a better understanding of Internet addiction. As twin studies have shown that both Internet addiction and personality are influenced by genetics, we highlight molecular genetics approaches to Internet addiction in this chapter too.

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    Shortly after completion of the present book, three twin studies on Internet addiction have been published showing that individual differences in Internet addiction may indeed be accounted for by a genetic component (Deryakulu and Ursavas 2014; Li et al. 2014; Vink et al. 2015). In an eventual second edition of this book these studies will be highlighted in more detail.

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  4. Department of Psychology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

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Montag, C., Reuter, M. (2015). Molecular Genetics, Personality and Internet Addiction. In: Montag, C., Reuter, M. (eds) Internet Addiction. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07242-5_6

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