THE PSYCHOLOGY OF

TWINS

Muzna AL Hooti

Identical & fraternal twinsWhy identical twins are different A study on MZ twinsStress points for twinsPicture of twinsIbrahim & Azer

THE CONTENT

Twins:

MZ

DZ

Why identical twins are different?

1 -Environmental reasons .2 -Epigenetic reasons.

A study on MZ twins

2 1 Twins

Difficultly adapts Easily adapts Adaption

Excitable & emotional

Methodical & thoughtful

Tendency

Interested in inanimate objects

Sociable (interested in people)

Orientation

Stress points for twins

Early infancy. Separation.

They depend on each other

story

Debbie and Dianne are a good example for twins depend on each other, the following part of the interaction between Debbie and Dianne illustrates this:

Dianne: “Although we fought a whole lot, we had this real deep interdependency ”.Debbie: “Yes, the first day of kindergarten. Do you want to talk about that”?Dianne: “Yes, I was the only kid in the whole place who couldn’t cry ”.

Debbie: “I hated Dianne. . . but I felt a real strong bond between us. In kindergarten, I was real scared the first day, and I was crying too, but I was very

comforted that Dianne was there, and that was a big deal ”.Dianne: “We were shy about new situations, and it was just very comforting to

have the other one ”.Debbie: “Like going to birthday parties. We were very comforted by having each

other there ”.Dianne: “I think the most important thing to me in terms of dependency was Debbie’s presence in social situations, just for her to be there; and especially when we were kids, she was much more easily likable with other people, and I was kind of shy, so that kind of took the pressure off of me, that I didn’t have to

stand alone”. ………

Pictures of Twins

from‘National Geographic ’

Issue of January 2012

JoanaEva

They are suffering

from a slight isolation

according to genetic reasons.

MartaEmma

ErodesRamon

KateEmily

LaurenLorita

SpenserScalier

SteveJeff

LilyCarley

JackieJessica

ChristopherCoul

Kate Kenerly

They are not actresses but they like wearing

the same dresses. Also, they are both

good in playing guitar and they both used to

be trainers of Taekwondo.

Mike Bob

They are one team in tennis sport and they are the first for the last 6 years including Wimbledon 2011. Their strength point is

that they guess each others moves.

Doug

Phill

LasenJennaTim

Reily

They live in one house in in Moscow city in Idaho state in the USA.

DonDeff

They are truck drivers and they are similar in

everything; they have fun together. They like

listening to the same music and they are both

funny.

AZER & IBRAHIM

12 years old

Azer Ibrahim

Basketball – Swimming – Football – Painting – Singing - Playing on guitar

– Baseball – skate boarding

Handball – Swimming – singing –Playing on drums – Graphic – Ice-

skating - Chatting

Hobbies

SocialHe get good grades

His not socialHe is smart but he doesn’t get good

grades

Grades

Pop – slow rock – black metal Rap – hip hop – hard rock – black metal

Music

Army – Police – Business man Graphic designer – Business man Future jobs

Black – white – red Yellow – Blue – Black – Red - White Colours

They don’t like being together, especially Ibrahim. They don’t like wearing the same clothes, but their

mother tries to buy them the same outfits.

I hate him, my hair is better than his hair

So what, I don’t care

*Sources :-‘ -The psychology of Twinship’ by Ricardo

C . Ainslie (1985) ‘-Twins’ by Peter Watson (1981)

Personality Differences in Twins Encouraging Individuality In Pre-School Multiples Suite101.com-

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