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