Polygenic scores: prediction versus explanation

R Plomin, S Von Stumm - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
During the past decade, polygenic scores have become a fast-growing area of research in
the behavioural sciences. The ability to directly assess people's genetic propensities has …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary personality psychology

DM Buss - Annual review of psychology, 1991 - researchgate.net
460 BUSS evolved solutions to the adaptive problems our species has faced over millions of
years. Because personality psychology is dedicated to studying human nature in all of its …

Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits

TB Horwitz, JV Balbona, KN Paulich… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

MR Robinson, A Kleinman, M Graff… - Nature Human …, 2017 - nature.com
In human populations, assortative mating is almost universally positive, with similarities
between partners for quantitative phenotypes–, common disease risk,,–, behaviour,, social …

Assortative mating biases marker-based heritability estimators

R Border, S O'Rourke, T de Candia… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Many traits are subject to assortative mating, with recent molecular genetic findings
confirming longstanding theoretical predictions that assortative mating induces long range …

Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts

A Jelenkovic, R Sund, YM Hur, Y Yokoyama… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Height variation is known to be determined by both genetic and environmental factors, but a
systematic description of how their influences differ by sex, age and global regions is …

Ovulation, sex hormones, and women's mating psychology

BC Jones, AC Hahn, LM DeBruine - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019 - cell.com
The dual mating strategy hypothesis proposes that women's preferences for uncommitted
sexual relationships with men displaying putative fitness cues increase during the high …

The genetics of politics: Discovery, challenges, and progress

PK Hatemi, R McDermott - Trends in Genetics, 2012 - cell.com
For the greater part of human history, political behaviors, values, preferences, and
institutions have been viewed as socially determined. Discoveries during the 1970s that …

Global hearing loss prevention

CS Brown, SD Emmett, SK Robler… - … Clinics of North America, 2018 - oto.theclinics.com
Hearing loss affects individuals across all cultures; it is the fourth leading contributor to years
lived with a disability worldwide, 1 affecting 6% to 8% of the world's population. 2 Moreover …

Step** out of the caveman's shadow: Nations' gender gap predicts degree of sex differentiation in mate preferences

M Zentner, K Mitura - Psychological science, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
An influential explanation for gender differences in mating strategies is that the sex-specific
reproductive constraints faced by human ancestors shaped these differences. Other …