This chapter explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of
academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is …

Some individuals with a particular disease-causing mutation or genotype fail to express
most if not all features of the disease in question, a phenomenon that is known as 'reduced …

Prior genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of major depressive disorder (MDD) have
met with limited success. We sought to increase statistical power to detect disease loci by …

Candidate gene× environment (G× E) interaction research tests the hypothesis that the
effects of some environmental variable (eg, childhood maltreatment) on some outcome …

Mental toughness (MT) is an umbrella term that entails positive psychological resources,
which are crucial across a wide range of achievement contexts and in the domain of mental …

Early life stress, such as childhood abuse, neglect and loss, is a well established major risk
factor for developing depressive disorders later in life. We here summarize and discuss …

Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a
new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life …

How do our brains determine whether something is good or bad? How is this computational
goal implemented in biological systems? Given the critical importance of valence processing …

Depression is highly common throughout the life course and dementia is common in late life.
Depression has been linked with dementia, and growing evidence implies that the timing of …

Ambulatory assessment (AA) covers a wide range of assessment methods to study people in
their natural environment, including self-report, observational, and biological/physiological …