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  1. Age, gender, and score distributions of moral foundations
  2. Creative Achievement: Behavioral Genetic Evidence for Overlap With General Cognitive Ability and for Independent Latent Traits
  3. Moral foundations in the 2020s: Advancements in measurement, genetics, brain science, and real-world impact
  4. umx version 4.5: Extending Twin and Path-Based SEM in R with CLPM, MR-DoC, Definition Variables, Ωnyx Integration, and Censored Distributions
  5. Fear of violent dispossession motivates support for progressive policy
  6. Getting things done: Conscientiousness enables physical effort by reducing frustration
  7. Dyslexia Polygenic Index and Socio-Economic Status Interaction Effects on Reading Skills in Australia and the United Kingdom
  8. Is Trying Harder Enough? Causal Analysis of the Effort-IQ Relationship Suggests Not
  9. Boys are smart (and really dull and pretty average): Testing replication and validity of the Brilliance Stereotype
  10. Genetic origins of Utilitarian versus Kantian moral philosophy in heritable motivations for egalitarian beneficence and coercive redistribution
  11. Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution
  12. Virtuous victimhood as a Dark Triad resource transfer strategy
  13. Conscientiousness makes effort less frustrating
  14. Support for redistribution is shaped by motives of egalitarian division and coercive redistribution
  15. Psychological pillars of support for free speech: Tolerance for offensive, disagreeing, socially divisive, and heterodox speech
  16. Multivariate genome-wide association analysis of quantitative reading skill and dyslexia improves gene discovery
  17. Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities: A replication and extension of Ok et al (2021)
  18. How to get things done: Tight linkage of conscientiousness with twelve mechanisms of Goal Setting Theory
  19. Genetic neurodevelopmental clustering and dyslexia
  20. Modular Morals: The Genetic Architecture of Morality as Cooperation
  21. Longitudinal Reading Measures and Genome Imputation in the National Child Development Study: Prospects for Future Reading Research
  22. Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia
  23. Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people
  24. Smart people know how the economy works: Cognitive ability, economic knowledge and financial literacy
  25. Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations
  26. Free to choose: Mutualist motives for partner choice, proportional division, punishment, and help
  27. Evolving the blank slate
  28. Free to choose: Mutualist Motives for Partner Choice, Proportional Division, Punishment, and Help
  29. Each is to count for one and none for more than one: Predictors of support for economic redistribution
  30. Remapping the foundations of morality: Well-fitting structural model of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire
  31. Who supports redistribution? Replicating and refining effects of compassion, malicious envy, and self-interest
  32. Heritability of language laterality assessed by functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a twin study
  33. Testing the association of growth mindset and grades across a challenging transition: Is growth mindset associated with grades?
  34. Big Five and HEXACO Personality Traits, Proenvironmental Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis
  35. The Genetics of Reading and Language
  36. Heritability of language laterality assessed by functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a twin study
  37. The Association of Dyslexia and Developmental Speech and Language Disorder Candidate Genes with Reading and Language Abilities in Adults
  38. The Nigerian Twin and Sibling Registry: An Update
  39. Negligible heritability of language laterality assessed by functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a twin study
  40. Genetic and Environmental Influences on Cognitive Abilities in Extreme Poverty
  41. You can’t change your basic ability, but you work at things, and that’s how we get hard things done: Testing the role of growth mindset on response to setbacks, educational attainment, and cognitive ability.
  42. Genetic and environmental risk factors in the non‐medical use of over‐the‐counter or prescribed analgesics, and their relationship to major classes of licit and illicit substance use and misuse in a population‐based sample of young adult twins
  43. Genetic Structure of IQ, Phonemic Decoding Skill, and Academic Achievement
  44. umx: Twin and Path-Based Structural Equation Modeling in R
  45. Social Competence in Parents Increases Children’s Educational Attainment: Replicable Genetically-Mediated Effects of Parenting Revealed by Non-Transmitted DNA
  46. Physical and Cultural Inheritance Enhance Agency, but What are the Origins of this Concern to Establish a Legacy? A Nationally-Representative Twin Study of Erikson’s Concept of Generativity
  47. Higher levels of childhood intelligence predict increased support for economic conservatism in adulthood
  48. The Influence of Dyslexia Candidate Genes on Reading Skill in Old Age
  49. Testing associations between cannabis use and subcortical volumes in two large population-based samples
  50. The Nature of Nurture: Using a Virtual-Parent Design to Test Parenting Effects on Children's Educational Attainment in Genotyped Families
  51. umx: Twin and Path-based Structural Equation Modeling in R
  52. umx: Twin and Path-based Structural Equation Modeling in R
  53. Brain volume and intelligence: The moderating role of intelligence measurement quality
  54. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated with Reading Ability Show Connection to Socio-Economic Outcomes
  55. Leveraging a more nuanced view of personality: Narrow characteristics predict and explain variance in life outcomes
  56. The Temporal Stability of In-Group Favoritism Is Mostly Attributable to Genetic Factors
  57. Does growth mindset improve children’s IQ, educational attainment or response to setbacks? Active-control interventions and data on children’s own mindsets
  58. Does growth mindset improve children’s IQ, educational attainment or response to setbacks? Active-control interventions and data on children’s own mindsets
  59. Smart groups of smart people: Evidence for IQ as the origin of collective intelligence in the performance of human groups
  60. When does socioeconomic status (SES) moderate the heritability of IQ? No evidence for g × SES interaction for IQ in a representative sample of 1176 Australian adolescent twin pairs
  61. Examining non-syndromic autosomal recessive intellectual disability (NS-ARID) genes for an enriched association with intelligence differences
  62. Large Cross-National Differences in Gene × Socioeconomic Status Interaction on Intelligence
  63. Grit
  64. Nonparametric Estimates of Gene × Environment Interaction Using Local Structural Equation Modeling
  65. A spectral clustering approach to the structure of personality: Contrasting the FFM and HEXACO models
  66. The Association between Neuroticism and Heart Rate Variability Is Not Fully Explained by Cardiovascular Disease and Depression
  67. More symmetrical children have faster and more consistent choice reaction times.
  68. The glass is half fullandhalf empty: A population-representative twin study testing if optimism and pessimism are distinct systems
  69. OpenMx 2.0: Extended Structural Equation and Statistical Modeling
  70. Genome‐wide screening for DNA variants associated with reading and language traits
  71. How genes influence personality: Evidence from multi-facet twin analyses of the HEXACO dimensions
  72. The structure of attributional style: Cognitive styles and optimism–pessimism bias in the Attributional Style Questionnaire
  73. Does Learning to Read Improve Intelligence? A Longitudinal Multivariate Analysis in Identical Twins From Age 7 to 16
  74. Openness to experience and aesthetic chills: Links to heart rate sympathetic activity
  75. Facial Width-To-Height Ratio Relates to Alpha Status and Assertive Personality in Capuchin Monkeys
  76. Alcohol consumption and lifetime change in cognitive ability: a gene × environment interaction study
  77. Functional Gene Group Analysis Indicates No Role for Heterotrimeric G Proteins in Cognitive Ability
  78. Personality and facial morphology: Links to assertiveness and neuroticism in capuchins (Sapajus [Cebus] apella)
  79. Human cognitive ability is influenced by genetic variation in components of postsynaptic signalling complexes assembled by NMDA receptors and MAGUK proteins
  80. Estimating the Sex-Specific Effects of Genes on Facial Attractiveness and Sexual Dimorphism
  81. Core Dimensions of Personality Broadly Account for the Link from Perceived Social Support to Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety
  82. Childhood Socioeconomic Status Amplifies Genetic Effects on Adult Intelligence
  83. Common Heritable Effects Underpin Concerns Over Norm Maintenance and In‐Group Favoritism: Evidence From Genetic Analyses of Right‐Wing Authoritarianism and Traditionalism
  84. Common genetic influences underpin religiosity, community integration, and existential uncertainty
  85. Bodily symmetry increases across human childhood
  86. The relationship of reading ability to creativity: Positive, not negative associations
  87. A genome‐wide association study for reading and language abilities in two population cohorts
  88. Education is associated with higher later life IQ scores, but not with faster cognitive processing speed.
  89. Enduring Links From Childhood Mathematics and Reading Achievement to Adult Socioeconomic Status
  90. Neural correlates of the ‘good life’: eudaimonic well-being is associated with insular cortex volume
  91. Symmetry of the face in old age reflects childhood social status
  92. Genetic Influences on Psychological Well‐Being: A Nationally Representative Twin Study
  93. Existential Uncertainty Measure
  94. Community Integration Measure
  95. Religiosity Measure
  96. No evidence for sexual dimorphism of facial width-to-height ratio in four large adult samples
  97. Towards a genetically informed approach in the social sciences: Strengths and an opportunity
  98. Substantial Genetic Overlap Between Schizotypy and Neuroticism: A Twin Study
  99. Moral Values Are Associated with Individual Differences in Regional Brain Volume
  100. Predicting Mortality From Human Faces
  101. Minor Physical Anomalies, Intelligence, and Cognitive Decline
  102. Facial width-to-height ratio predicts achievement drive in US presidents
  103. Education 2.0: genetically-informed models for school and teaching
  104. Personality accounts for stable preferences and expectations across a range of simple games
  105. The relationship between intelligence and multiple domains of religious belief: Evidence from a large adult US sample
  106. Losing One's Grip: A Bivariate Growth Curve Model of Grip Strength and Nonverbal Reasoning From Age 79 to 87 Years in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921
  107. SNP Sets and Reading Ability: Testing Confirmation of a 10-SNP Set in a Population Sample
  108. From left to right: How the personality system allows basic traits to influence politics via characteristic moral adaptations
  109. OpenMx: An Open Source Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework
  110. A common heritable factor influences prosocial obligations across multiple domains
  111. Increased explanatory power using mediated effects of personality on behavior: Examples from coalition affiliation and well-being
  112. Fluctuating Asymmetry and personality
  113. Cognitive Function in Adolescence: Testing for Interactions Between Breast-Feeding and FADS2 Polymorphisms
  114. Genetic Evidence for Multiple Biological Mechanisms Underlying In-Group Favoritism
  115. Genetic Variance in a Component of the Language Acquisition Device: ROBO1 Polymorphisms Associated with Phonological Buffer Deficits
  116. Dyslexia and DCDC2: normal variation in reading and spelling is associated with DCDC2 polymorphisms in an Australian population sample
  117. Height and intelligence in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921: a longitudinal study
  118. Dyslexia and DYX1C1: deficits in reading and spelling associated with a missense mutation
  119. Symmetric faces are a sign of successful cognitive aging
  120. Association of KIBRA and memory
  121. Genetic Covariation Between the Author Recognition Test and Reading and Verbal Abilities: What Can We Learn from the Analysis of High Performance?
  122. No Association Between Cholinergic Muscarinic Receptor 2 (CHRM2) Genetic Variation and Cognitive Abilities in Three Independent Samples
  123. Variation in the dysbindin gene and normal cognitive function in three independent population samples
  124. Recently-derived variants of brain-size genes ASPM, MCPH1, CDK5RAP and BRCA1 not associated with general cognition, reading or language
  125. Dissociations in rod bisection: The effect of viewing conditions on perception and action
  126. Erratum: Testing replication of a 5-SNP set for general cognitive ability in six population samples
  127. Testing replication of a 5-SNP set for general cognitive ability in six population samples
  128. Current Genetic Discoveries and Education: Strengths, Opportunities, and Limitations
  129. Behavioral Genetics (5th edition) Robert Plomin, John C. DeFries, Gerald E. McClearn, Peter McGuffin. (2008). Worth Publishers, New York, 505 pp., US$115.95, ISBN 10 1 4292 0577 6
  130. Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing
  131. Response to Robinson
  132. A Haplotype Spanning KIAA0319 and TTRAP Is Associated with Normal Variation in Reading and Spelling Ability
  133. Implications relevant to CFA model misfit, reliability, and the five-factor model as measured by the NEO-FFI
  134. Brother–sister differences in the g factor in intelligence: Analysis of full, opposite-sex siblings from the NLSY1979
  135. Discussion on ‘The Evolutionary Genetics of Personality’ by Penke, Denissen and Miller
  136. The ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM and Microcephalin is not explained by increased intelligence
  137. Fluctuating asymmetry and intelligence
  138. Differences in confirmatory factor analysis model close-fit index estimates obtained from AMOS 4.0 and AMOS 5.0 via full information maximum likelihood – no imputation: Corrections and extension to Palmer et al. (2003)
  139. Replication of reported linkages for dyslexia and spelling and suggestive evidence for novel regions on chromosomes 4 and 17
  140. Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Three-Factor Structure of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire and Chapman Schizotypy Scales
  141. John Marshall and the developmental dyslexias
  142. Genetic and environmental bases of reading and spelling: A unified genetic dual route model
  143. Genetics of intelligence
  144. Genes for reading and spelling
  145. Cognitive modelling and the behaviour genetics of reading
  146. The effects of local and global processing demands on perception and action
  147. Reliability and validity of two Likert versions of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ)
  148. Auditory inspection time and intelligence
  149. The panmodal sensory imprecision hypothesis of schizophrenia: reduced auditory precision in schizotypy
  150. Behaviour genetic analyses of reading and spelling: A component processes approach
  151. Personality and information processing speed: Independent influences on intelligent performance
  152. Examining the Structure of the Trait Meta-Mood Scale
  153. PsyScript: A Macintosh application for scripting experiments
  154. Oral creatine monohydrate supplementation improves brain performance: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial
  155. Crystallized intelligence as a product of speed and drive for experience: the relationship of inspection time and openness to g and Gc
  156. The General Factor of Intelligence: How General Is It?
  157. Influence of long‐chain branching on the miscibility of poly(ethylene‐r‐ethylethylene) blends with different microstructures
  158. Human Cognitive Abilities in Theory and Practice
  159. Inspection time and intelligence: further attempts to eliminate the apparent movement strategy
  160. Schizotypy and latent inhibition: non-linear linkage between psychometric and cognitive markers
  161. Intelligence Arguments and Australian psychology: A Reply to Stankov and an Alternative View
  162. Strategy use in jensen's RT paradigm: Relationships to intelligence?
  163. Smoking, processing speed and attention in a choice reaction time task
  164. Effects of nicotine on perceptual speed
  165. Intelligence and complexity of the averaged evoked potential: An attentional theory
  166. Smoking, string length and intelligence
  167. A comparison of the information processing rates of non-smokers and cigarette-deprived smokers
  168. Music and spatial IQ
  169. Smoking and raven IQ
  170. Effects of smoking on simple and choice reaction time
  171. Intelligence, inspection time, and decision time
  172. String length, attention & intelligence: Focussed attention reverses the string length-IQ relationship
  173. Photic driving and personality
  174. Effects of post-learning smoking on memory consolidation
  175. A Macintosh II psychophysiology system