Join Tim Ray as he interviews Dr. Nancy L. Segal, Professor of Psychology and Director, Twin Studies Center, Calif State Univ., Fullerton.

Nancy L. Segal, Ph.D. – Biography

Dr. Nancy L. Segal received a B.A. degree in psychology and English literature from Boston University (1973), and M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees in the Social Sciences and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago. From 1982-1991 she was a post-doctoral fellow and research associate at the University of Minnesota, affiliated with the well-known Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart. She is currently Professor of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) and Director of the Twin Studies Center, which she founded in 1991. Dr. Segal is regarded as a world-class expert on twins and twin research, as evidenced by her prolific scientific writing and numerous invitations to address national and international audiences, both professional and public. She was a speaker at the November 4, 2017 TedX event in Manhattan Beach, California. In July 2018 she delivered a plenary lecture, “Twins, Virtual Twins and Other Curious Couples: The Science Behind the Fascination,” to the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has been invited to deliver a keynote speech to the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, in Florence, Italy, next summer, in July 2019.

Dr. Segal has authored over 200 scientific articles and book chapters, as well as six books on twins. One of her recent books, Born Together-Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study (2012, Harvard University Press) won the 2013 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. Other books include Someone Else’s Twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth (2011, Prometheus), Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins (2007, Harvard University Press) and Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior (2000, Dutton/Plume). O