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ArticlePersonality neuroscience2018

Intellectual Investment, Dopaminergic Gene Variation, and Life Events: A Critical Examination.

Alexander Strobel, Anja Strobel, Sören Enge, Monika Fleischhauer, Andreas Reif, Klaus-Peter Lesch, Kristin Anacker

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Article in Personality neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Alexander StrobelFaculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9426-5397
Anja StrobelDepartment of Psychology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany.
Sören EngeFaculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Monika FleischhauerDepartment of Psychology, Brandenburg Medical School, Neuruppin, Germany.
Andreas ReifDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt/Main, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Klaus-Peter LeschSection of Molecular Psychiatry, Laboratory of Translational Neuroscience, Center of Mental Health, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Kristin AnackerFaculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

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Abstract

Need for Cognition (NFC) and Openness to Ideas are intellectual investment traits that are characterized by a tendency to seek out, engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive activity. Little, however, is known about the extent to which they are influenced by genetic and environmental factors. With the present contribution, we aim at furthering our knowledge on the mechanisms underlying intellectual investment traits by following-up on a recent investigation of the role of dopaminergic gene variation in intellectual investment. Employing a standard approach that relied on null-hypothesis significance testing, we found that, first, two dopaminergic genetic variants interacted in modulating individual differences in NFC, but not in Openness to Ideas; that, second, negative life events played a role in the modulation of Openness to Ideas, but not of NFC; and that, third, negative life events as assessed using another measure were only marginally related to Openness to Ideas while positive life events were associated with both Openness to Ideas and NFC, with the latter effect being also dependent on

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dopamine gene variationinvestment traitslife eventsNeed for CognitionOpenness to Ideas

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