ReviewJournal of personality2017
Comparing the Developmental Genetics of Cognition and Personality over the Life Span.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Genetic Foundations of Inter-individual Neurophysiological Variability.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Genetic and environmental contributions to adult attachment styles: Evidence from the Minnesota Twin Registry.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2025Article
- Genetic associations between non-cognitive skills and academic achievement over development.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Stability of DNA-Methylation Profiles of Biological Aging in Children and Adolescents.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Genetic contributions of noncognitive skills to academic development.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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- Niche Diversity Predicts Personality Structure Across 115 Nations.Psychological science · 2022Article
- Visual search: Heritability and association with general intelligence.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Article
- Consistency of noncognitive skills and their relation to educational outcomes in a UK cohort.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
- CyberGenomics: Application of Behavioral Genetics in Cybersecurity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Empirical studies of cognitive ability and personality have tended to operate in isolation of one another. We suggest that returning to a unified approach to considering the development of individual differences in both cognition and personality can enrich our understanding of human development. We draw on previous meta-analyses of longitudinal, behavior genetic studies of cognition and personality across the life span, focusing particular attention on age trends in heritability and differential stability. Both cognition and personality are moderately heritable and exhibit large increases in stability with age; however, marked differences are evident. First, the heritability of cognition increases substantially with child age, while the heritability of personality decreases modestly with age. Second, increasing stability of cognition with age is overwhelmingly mediated by genetic factors, whereas increasing stability of personality with age is entirely mediated by environmental factors. Third, the maturational time-course of stability differs: Stability of cognition nears its asymptote by the end of the first decade of life, whereas stability of personality takes three decades to near its asymptote. We discuss how proximal gene-environment dynamics, developmental processes, broad social contexts, and evolutionary pressures may intersect to give rise to these divergent patterns.
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