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