Academic staff
Researcher interests: The role of the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin in regulating human social behavior; The behavioral genetics of personality; The contribution of individual differences in personality to differences in health and economic well-being.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: Faculty of Social Sciences
DEPARTMENT: Psychology
Selected Publications
genetic and environmental contributions to children s prosocial behavior brief review and new evidence from a reanalysis of experimental twin data (2018)|
Current opinion in psychology|
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the role of personality in health care use results of a population based longitudinal study in germany (2017)|
PLOS ONE|
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adp ribosyl cyclases cd38 cd157 social skills and friendship (2017)|
Psychoneuroendocrinology|
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sex specific effect of intranasal vasopressin but not oxytocin on emotional recognition and perception in schizophrenia patients (2017)|
European Psychiatry|
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the genetics of morality and prosociality (2015)|
Current opinion in psychology|
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quantification of biological aging in young adults (2015)|
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|
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cardiorespiratory fitness and cognitive function in midlife neuroprotection or neuroselection fitness and cognitive function (2015)|
Annals of Neurology|
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the prosocial personality and its facets genetic and environmental architecture of mother reported behavior of 7 year old twins (2015)|
Frontiers in Psychology|
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cardiorespiratory fitness and cognitive function in midlife (2015)|
Annals of Neurology|
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oxytocin receptor and vasopressin receptor 1a genes are respectively associated with emotional and cognitive empathy (2015)|
Hormones and Behavior|
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