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DeYoung and Colleagues (2010) Were Able to Identify Brain Regions

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DeYoung and colleagues (2010) were able to identify brain regions correlated with variations in Big Five traits. Can they claim that variations in volume of the brain regions caused variations in the Big Five?


A) Yes, because MRI evidence enables one to identify brain regions that cause behavior.
B) Yes, because past research indicates that the direction of causality is always from brain to behavior.
C) No, because MRI evidence is infamously unreliable.
D) No, because correlation does not enable one to establish the direction of causality.

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