Recent research in personality neuroscience has found a relationship between certain personality traits and:
a) the age at which people began their formal schooling.
b) the volume of various brain structures.
c) the rate of electrical activity that occurs between the left and right cerebral hemispheres.
d) the ratio of agonist to antagonist neurotransmitters in individuals' neural system.
ANS: B
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