More educated people tend to be lower in Right-Wing Authoritarianism. But why? Causal effects of education are hard to distinguish from confounding by family environments and genes.

More educated people tend to be lower in Right-Wing Authoritarianism. But why? Causal effects of education are hard to distinguish from confounding by family environments and genes.

We have a new paper out in EHB proposing a theory on how human intelligence evolved, led by our talented philosopher-turned-psychology-PhD-candidate @jonathanegeland.bsky.social!

We have a new paper out in EHB proposing a theory on how human intelligence evolved, led by our talented philosopher-turned-psychology-PhD-candidate @jonathanegeland.bsky.social!

In our new Evolution and Human Behavior paper, we examine the social function of uniquely human intelligence 🧠 Give it a read! sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to my coauthors: Leif Kennair and @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social

New paper out in Evolution & Human Behavior! Do people agree on what the ideal partner personality looks like, or is it just a reflection of their own traits? And do people care more about politics than the big five? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nytt essay. Vi reflekterer over hva oppdraget til høyere utdanning bør være i språkmodellens era. www.bi.no/forskning/bu...

Who wants to join us in Oslo to study how health influences educational underperformance? We are hiring PhDs postdocs candidates for our funded project. We will follow children from birth to emerging adulthood, using behavioural genetic methods and large datasets 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...

"These findings suggest that ideal partner preferences are shaped by one's own traits, especially for political personality, but some traits (e.g., low neuroticism) are broadly preferred across individuals." doi.org/10.1016/j.ev...

New paper out in Evolution & Human Behavior! Do people agree on what the ideal partner personality looks like, or is it just a reflection of their own traits? And do people care more about politics than the big five? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👉Behaviour genetics infographics www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👉ADHD, dyslexia & dyscalculia doi.org/10.1177/0956... 👉ADHD runs in families doi.org/10.1017/S003... 👉Education runs in families osf.io/preprints/ps... Hosted warmly at @citystgeorges.bsky.social by Ansgar Endress & Katrina May Dulay 🙏

"Contrary to popular and long-standing accounts of the causes and consequences of attachment styles, we find no evidence that attachment and ideology are jointly grounded in early familial experiences."

We have a new paper out, led by the great @hfsunde.bsky.social! We find that the correlation between parental income and offspring mental disorders may be partly causal in adolescence (phenotypic transmission), but that it is largely explained by passive genetic transmission in adulthood.

For Norwegian followers: Ett utvalg av mine forelesninger om personlighetspsykologi er nå tilgjengelig på YT for studenter og andre personlighetsinteresserte. Her er for eksempel en med biografisk perspektiv med fokus på Darwin & Munch: t.co/DVt5O7Q0ih

We have a new paper out in Psychological Science. The risk for (any) mental disorder decreases dramatically as cognitive ability increases–even when controlling for within-family variation. Check out lead author @magnusnordmo.bsky.social thread below for details!

New paper on family resemblance in school performance! We find that a model with only additive genetics and assortative mating fits the data well, but underestimates the resemblance of close relatives and adoptees, indicating some shared environmental effects. See @eivindy.bsky.social thread!