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. 2015 Feb 13;6:112. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00112

Table 3.

Twin correlations on the prosociality facets.

Sharing Social concern Kindness Helping Empathic concern
MZ twins
Sharing 0.72** 0.39** 0.29* 0.29* 0.37**
Social concern 0.38** 0.63** 0.11 0.08 0.31*
Kindness 0.31* 0.13 0.81** 0.39** 0.15
Helping 0.31* 0.31* 0.24 0.54** 0.09
Empathic concern 0.32* 0.38** 0.22 0.05 0.78**
DZ twins
Sharing 0.19* 0.01 0.10 0.06 0.08
Social concern –0.04 0.17 0.12 –0.03 –0.12
Kindness 0.11 0.17 0.60** 0.11 0.10
Helping 0.03 –0.03 0.23* 0.01 –0.07
Empathic concern 0.05 0.04 0.16 0.06 0.20*

Rows represent the prosociality scores of one twin, and columns represent the scores of his or her co-twin. *p ;< 0.05, ** p < 0.01.