The aim of this meta-analysis was to systematize available findings in the field of personality
heritability and test for possible moderator effects of study design, type of personality model …

Neuroticism's prospective association with common mental disorders (CMDs) has fueled the
assumption that neuroticism is an independent etiologically informative risk factor. This …

Positive correlations between mates can increase trait variation and prevalence, as well as
bias estimates from genetically informed study designs. While past studies of similarity …

In human populations, assortative mating is almost universally positive, with similarities
between partners for quantitative phenotypes–, common disease risk,,–, behaviour,, social …

The concept of reserve has been proposed to account for the disjunction between the
degree of brain damage and its clinical outcome. This paper attempts to produce a coherent …

Behavioral Genetics, Fifth Edition provides an engaging and clear overview of human and
animal behavioral genetics that is designed to introduce students in the behavioral …

There is abundant evidence, some of it reviewed in this paper, that personality traits are
substantially influenced by the genes. Much remains to be understood about how and why …

Psychological researchers typically distinguish five major domains of individual differences
in human behavior: cognitive abilities, personality, social attitudes, psychological interests …

We test the possibility that political attitudes and behaviors are the result of both
environmental and genetic factors. Employing standard methodological approaches in …

Twin studies have been a valuable source of information about the genetic basis of complex
traits. To maximize the potential of twin studies, large, worldwide registers of data on twins …