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An dieser Stelle erhalten Sie einen Überblick über alle uns bekannten wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen, welche rund um das Projekt TwinLife bzw. mit den Daten des Projektes entstanden sind.
Neben der hier aufgelisteten Literatur haben wir außerdem einige Konferenzbeiträge und die TwinLife Working Paper SeriesIn Arbeit befindliche Fachartikel, die einen Review-Prozess durchlaufen und sich für eine Publikation empfohlen haben., sowie die TwinLife Technical ReportsWissenschaftliche Beiträge, die sich mit der technischen Darstellung der Daten und mit Methodenfragen beschäftigen. herausgebracht.
  • Becker, B. & Weber, M. (2024).
    Die Thematisierung von Integration und Inklusion in Kindergartenkonzeptionen.
    Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 27, 7-37.
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  • Calais-Ferreira, L., Armstrong, G., Hahn, E., Newton-Howes, G., Foulds, J., Hopper, J. L., Spinath, F. M., Kurdyak, P., & Young, J. T. (2024).
    Mental disorders and discrimination: A prospective cohort study of young twin pairs in Germany.
    SSM - Population Health, 25, 101622.
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  • Campbell, A. C., Calais-Ferreira, L., Hahn, E., Spinath, F. M., Hopper, J. L., & Young, J. T. (2024).
    Familial confounding of internalising symptoms and obesity in adolescents and young adults; a co-twin analysis.
    International Journal of Obesity.
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  • Dierker, P., & Diewald, M. (2024).
    Compensation or accentuation? How parents from different social backgrounds decide to support their children.
    European Sociological Review.
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  • Diewald, M., Kuznetsov, D., & Liu, Y. (2024).
    Ungleiche Lebenschancen durch das Epigenom? Zum Zusammenwirken biologischer mit sozialen Mechanismen.
    In: P. Böhnke & D. Konietzka (eds.), Handbuch Sozialstrukturanalyse, pp. 1-24. Wiesbaden: Springer.
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  • Diewald, M. & Mönkediek, B. (2024).
    Der mögliche Beitrag genetisch informierter Untersuchungen zur Erklärung und Interpretation sozialer Ungleichheiten.
    In: Hammerl, M., Schwarz, S., Willführ, K.P. (eds) Evolutionäre Sozialwissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
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  • Dings, A., & Spinath, F. M. (2024).
    Sports club participation impacts life satisfaction in adolescence: A twin study.
    Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 73, 102639.
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  • Eichhorn, H., & Mönkediek, B. (2024).
    What explains the sex differences in family leisure activities of children? A genetically sensitive analysis with twin data.
    Journal of Family Research, 36, 327–350.
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  • Klatzka, C. H., Hahn, E., & Spinath, F. M. (2024).
    Differences in experiences of discrimination: an investigation of personality and person based characteristics in a twin difference design.
    Current Psychology.
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  • Klatzka, C. H., Raufeisen, O., Hahn, E., & Spinath, F. M. (2024).
    Personality as consequence and antecedent of bullying victimization in adolescence: A cross-lagged panel and genetically informed investigation.
    Personality and Individual Differences, 232, 112842.
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  • Ruks, M. & Diewald, M. (2024).
    Genetisch informierte Forschungsdesigns in der soziologischen Ungleichheitsforschung. Das Beispiel Bildungserwerb.
    In: Hammerl, M., Schwarz, S., Willführ, K.P. (eds) Evolutionäre Sozialwissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
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  • Spörlein, C. (2024).
    Eine soziologische Einführung in die Verhaltensgenetik.
    De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston.
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  • Wolfram, T., Ruks, M., & Spinath, F. M. (2024).
    Disentangling genetic and social pathways of the intergenerational transmission of cognitive ability – A nuclear twin family study.
    Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 94, 100980.
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  • Zapko-Willmes, A., & Theocharis, Y. (2024).
    Accounting for the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Youth Political Participation: A Twin Family Study.
    Political Psychology, 00, 1–20.
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  • Barsegyan, V., Knigge, A., & Maas, I. (2023).
    Social origin and political participation: does education compensate for or reinforce family advantages and disadvantages?
    Acta Politica, 1-24.
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  • Bayer, S., Blask, K., Gnambs, T., Jansen, M., Maehler, D. B., Meyermann, A., & Neuendorf, C. (2023).
    Data for Psychological Research in the Educational Field: Spotlights, Data Infrastructures, and Findings from Research.
    Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), 1-9.
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  • Deppe, M. & Zapko-Willmes, A. (2023).
    Youth Depression Symptoms During COVID-19. A Longitudinal Twin Study on Resilience Factors.
    Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 231(2), 126-136.
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  • Dierker, P., & Diewald, M. (2023).
    Compensation or accentuation? How parents from different social backgrounds decide to support their children. 
     Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (WP-2023-004).
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  • Dierker, P., Kühn, M., & Mönkediek, B. (2023).
    Does parental separation moderate the heritability of health risk behavior among adolescents?
    Social Science & Medicine, 116070.
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  • Fritzler, N. J., & Wild, E. (2023).
    Bedingungen der Inanspruchnahme von Förderangeboten für Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Teilleistungsstörungen und deren Effekt auf die Entwicklung der Lernfreude und des akademischen Selbstkonzepts.
    Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht, 2023(2), 93–105.
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  • Hassan, T. (2023).
    Genetic and Environmental Influences on Playing Video Games.
    Media Psychology.
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  • Holzwarth, B., & Wolf, C. (2023).
    Parental Resources and Heritability as Factors Shaping Children's Health. An Analysis of Twins' Self-rated Health using TwinLife.
    Frontiers in Sociology, 8, 1136896.
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  • Hufer-Thamm, A., Starr, A., & Steinmayr, R. (2023).
    Is There Evidence for Intelligence-by-Conscientiousness Interaction in the Prediction of Change in School Grades from Age 11 to 15 Years?
    Journal of Intelligence, 11(3), 45.
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  • Kim, Y., Gaspard, H., Fleischmann, M., Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (2023).
    What Happens With Comparison Processes When “the Other” is Very Similar? Academic Self-Concept Formation in Twins.
    Contemporary Educational Psychology, 72, 102138.
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  • Kottwitz, A., Mönkediek, B., Klatzka, C. H., Hufer-Thamm, A., & Hildebrandt, J. (2023).
    Genetic and environmental contributions to the subjective burden of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    BMC Psychology, 11, 134.
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  • Mönkediek, B., Diewald, M., & Lang, V. (2023).
    Does social origin modify the heritability of cognitive ability? A close look at the relevance of different parental resources.
    Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 86, 100824.
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  • Mönkediek, B., Schober, P., Diewald, M., Eichhorn, H., & Spiess, C. K. (2023).
    Does the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care Centers Mitigate the Risk of Externalizing Problems? A Genetic-Sensitive Study of Preschoolers in Germany.
    Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 1-26.
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  • Nacke, L., & Riemann, R. (2023).
    Two sides of the same coin? On the common etiology of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation.
    Personality and Individual Differences, 207, 112160. 
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  • Nikstat, A., Beam, C. R., & Riemann, R. (2023).
    Gene–environment interplay in internalizing problem behavior.
    Developmental Psychology.
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  • Nikstat, A., & Riemann, R. (2023).
    Differences in parenting behavior are systematic sources of the non-shared environment for internalizing and externalizing problem behavior.
    Behavior Genetics, 53, 25–39. 
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  • Rohm, T., Andreas, A., Deppe, M., Eichhorn, H., Instinske, J., Klatzka, C. H., Kottwitz, A., Krell, K., Mönkediek, B., Paulus, L., Piesch, S., Ruks, M., Starr, A., Weigel, L., Diewald, M., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., & Spinath, F. M. (2023).
    Data from the German TwinLife Study: Genetic and Social Origins of Educational Predictors, Processes, and Outcomes.
    Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), 1–15.
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  • Ruks, M. (2023).
    Testing for SES differences in the responsiveness of educational expectations in a twin design.
    PLoS ONE, 18(8), e0290454.
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  • Starr, A., Ruks, M., Weigel, L., & Riemann, R. (2023).
    What drives the association between home chaos and school grades over time? A biometric cross-lagged panel approach.
    Learning and Individual Differences, 104, 102287. 
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  • Wolfram, T., & Morris, D. (2023).
    Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment.
    npj Science of Learning, 8, 24.
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  • Baier, T., Lang, V., Grätz, M., Barclay, K. J., Conley, D. C., Dawes, C. T., Laidley, T., & Lyngstad, T. H. (2022).
    Genetic influences on educational achievement in cross-national perspective. European Sociological Review, 38(6), 959-974.
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  • Eifler, E.F., Riemann, R. (2022).
    The aetiology of educational attainment: A nuclear twin family study into the genetic and environmental influences on school leaving certificates. British Journal of Educational Psychology, e12478.
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  • Kandler, C., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2022).
    Conceptualizing and studying characteristics, units, and fits of persons and environments: A coherent synthesis. European Journal of Personality, 36(3), 293-318.
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  • Kandler, C., Riemann, R., & Hufer-Thamm, A. (2022).
    IV. Persönlichkeit und Politik. In: Zmerli, S. & Feldman, O. (eds.), Politische Psychologie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium (2nd ed.), Nomos (pp. 61-82).
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  • Mönkediek, B. (2022).
    How variants of tracking affect the role of genes and environment in explaining child attendance at upper secondary school. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 81, 100714.
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  • Mönkediek, B., & Diewald, M. (2022).
    Do academic ability and social background influence each other in shaping educational attainment? The case of the transition to secondary education in Germany.     Social Science Research, 101, Article 102625.
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  • Mueller, I. M., Spinath, F. M., Friese, M., & Hahn, E. (2022).
    Genetics, parenting, and family functioning—What drives the development of self-control from adolescence to adulthood? Journal of Personality. 
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  • Neugart, M., Yildirim, S. (2022).
    Heritability in friendship networks. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 194, 41-55. (online first)
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  • Ruks, M. (2022).
    Investigating the Mechanisms of G × SES Interactions for Education. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 100730.
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  • Starr, A., Riemann, R. (2022).
    Chasing Environmental Influences on School Grades in Childhood and Adolescence. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 69, 102043. (online first)
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  • Starr, A., Riemann, R. (2022).
    Common genetic and environmental effects on cognitive ability, conscientiousness, self-perceived abilities, and school performance. Intelligence, 93, 101664. (online first)
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  • Baum, M. A., Spinath, F. M., & Hahn, E. (2021).
    Reexamining the Relationship Between Shift Work and Health Behavior: Do Fluid Intelligence, Socio-economic Status, and Self-control Moderate the Relation?. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1).
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  • Dings, A., Spinath, F. M. (2021).
    Motivational and personality variables distinguish academic underachievers from high achievers, low achievers, and overachievers. Social Psychology of Education, 2021.
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  • Enck, P., Goebel-Stengel, M., Rieß, O. et al. (2021).
    Medizinische Zwillingsforschung in Deutschland. Bundesgesundheitsbl 64, 1298–1306.
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  • Grätz, M., Lang, V., & Diewald, M. (2021).
    The effects of parenting on early adolescents' noncognitive skills: Evidence from a sample of twins in Germany. Acta Sociologica. (online first)
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  • Hufer-Thamm, A., & Riemann, R. (2021).
    On the link of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and Neuroticism. Journal of Personality.
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  • Jokela, M. (2021).
    Religiosity, psychological distress, and wellbeing: Evaluating familial confounding with multicohort sibling data. American Journal of Epidemiology, kwab276. (online first)
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  • Kandler, C., Zapko-Willmes, A., Richter, J., & Riemann, R. (2021).
    Synergistic and dynamic genotype-environment interplays in the development of personality differences. In: J. F. Rauthmann (ed.), The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes, Elsevier Academic Press (pp. 155-181).
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  • Paulus, L., Spinath, F. M., & Hahn, E. (2021).
    How do educational inequalities develop? The role of socioeconomic status, cognitive ability, home environment, and self-efficacy along the educational path. Intelligence, 86, 101528.
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  • Stienstra, K., Maas, I., Knigge, A., Schulz, W. (2021).
    Resource Compensation or Multiplication? The Interplay between Cognitive Ability and Social Origin in Explaining Educational Attainment. European Sociological Review, 37(2), 186–200.
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  • Weinschenk, A. C., Dawes, C. T., Oskarsson, S., Klemmensen, R., & Nørgaard, A. S. (2021).
    The relationship between political attitudes and political participation: Evidence from monozygotic twins in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark. Journal of Marriage and Family Electoral Studies, 69, 102269.
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  • Baier, T. & Van Winkle, Z. (2020).
    Does Parental Separation Lower Genetic Influences on Children's School Performance?. Journal of Marriage and Family.
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  • Bell, E., Dawes, C., Weinschenk, A., Riemann, R. & Kandler, C. (2020).
    Patterns and sources of the association between intelligence, party identification, and political orientations. Intelligence, 81, 101457.
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  • Hufer, A., Kornadt, A. E., Kandler, C. & Riemann, R. (2020).
    Genetic and environmental variation in political orientation in adolescence and early adulthood: A Nuclear Twin Family analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(4), 762–776.
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  • Lang, V. & Kottwitz, A. (2020).
    The socio-demographic structure of the first wave of the TwinLife panel study: A comparison with the microcensus. methods, data, analyses, 14(1), 28.
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  • Mönkediek, B. (2020).
    Trait-specific testing of the equal environment assumption: The case of school grades and upper secondary school attendance. Journal of Family Research, 1-33.
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  • Mönkediek, B., Schulz, W., Eichhorn, H. & Diewald, M. (2020).
    Is there something special about twin families? A comparison of parenting styles in twin and non-twin families. Social Science Research, 102441.
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  • Neugart, M. & Yildirim, S. (2020).
    What determines perceived income justice? Evidence from the German TwinLife study. Economics & Human Biology, 36, 100826.
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  • Nikstat, A. & Riemann, R. (2020).
    On the etiology of internalizing and externalizing problem behavior: A twin-family study. PLOS ONE 15(3).
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  • Turner, J. D., D'Ambrosio, C., Vögele, C. & Diewald, M. (2020).
    Twin Research in the Post-Genomic Era: Dissecting the Pathophysiological Effects of Adversity and the Social Environment. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(9), 3142.
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  • Baier, T. (2019).
    Does sibling and twin similarity in cognitive ability differ by parents’ education?. ZfF–Zeitschrift für Familienforschung/Journal of Family Research, 31(1), 58-82.
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  • Baier, T. & Lang, V. (2019).
    The Social Stratification of Environmental and Genetic Influences on Education: New Evidence Using a Register-Based Twin Sample. Sociological Science, 6, 143-171.
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  • Bellani, L., Biewen, M., Bonin, H., Boockmann, B., Brändle, T., Helbig, S., Kugler, P., & Pollak, R. (2019).
    Lebenslagen in Deutschland. Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung der Bundesregierung. Begleitforschung zum Sechsten Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung.
    Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales.
  • Eifler, E. F., Starr A. & Riemann, R. (2019).
    The genetic and environmental effects on school grades in late childhood and adolescence. PLoS ONE 14(12).
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  • Gil-Hernández, C. J. (2019).
    Do Well-off Families Compensate for Low Cognitive Ability? Evidence on Social Inequality in Early Schooling from a Twin Study. Sociology of Education, 92(2), 150-175.
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  • Gottschling, J., Hahn, E., Beam, C. R., Spinath, F. M., Carroll, S. & Turkheimer, E. (2019).
    Socioeconomic status amplifies genetic effects in middle childhood in a large German twin sample. Intelligence, 72, 20-27.
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  • Kandler, C., Waaktaar, T., Möttus, R., Riemann, R. & Torgersen, S. (2019).
    Unravelling the Interplay Between Genetic and Environmental Contributions in the Unfolding of Personality Differences from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 33(3), 221-244.
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  • Lang, V., Weigel, L., Mönkediek, B., Baum, M. A., Eichhorn, H., Eifler, E. F., Hahn, E., Hufer, A., Klatzka, C.H., Kottwitz, A., Krell, K., Nikstat, A., Diewald, M., Riemann, R. & Spinath, F. M. (2019).
    An Introduction to the German Twin Family Panel (TwinLife). Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 1 (published online ahead of print).
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  • Mönkediek, B., Lang, V., Weigel, L., Baum, M. A., Eifler, E. F., Hahn, E., Hufer, A., Klatzka, C.H., Kottwitz, A., Krell, K., Nikstat, A., Diewald, M., Riemann, R. & Spinath, F.M. (2019).
    The German Twin Family Panel (TwinLife). Twin Research and Human Genetics, 1-8.
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  • Weinschenk, A., Dawes, C., Kandler, C., Bell, E., & Riemann, R. (2019).
    New evidence on the link between genes, psychological traits, and political engagement. Politics and the Life Sciences, 38, 1-13.
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  • Bleidorn, W., Hufer, A., Kandler, C., Hopwood, C. J. & Riemann, R. (2018).
    A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self‐Esteem. European Journal of Personality, 32(3), 221-232.
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  • Hübler, P. M. (2018).
    Heritability of time preference: Evidence from German twin data. Kyklos, 71(3), 433-455.
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  • Johnson, W., Hahn, E., Gottschling, J., Lenau, F., Spinath, F. M. & McGue, M. (2018).
    SES-of-Origin and BMI in Youth: Comparing Germany and Minnesota. Behavior genetics, 49(1), 24-48.
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  • Klassen, L., Eifler, E. F., Hufer, A. & Riemann, R. (2018).
    Why Do People Differ in Their Achievement Motivation? A Nuclear Twin Family Study. Primenjena psihologija, 11(4), 433-450.
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  • Kornadt, A.E., Hufer, A., Kandler, C. & Riemann, R. (2018).
    On the genetic and environmental sources of social and political participation in adolescence and early adulthood. PLOS ONE 13(8), 1-16.
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  • Weinschenk, A. C. & Dawes, C. T. (2018).
    The genetic and psychological underpinnings of generalized social trust. Journal of Trust Research, 9(1), 47-65.
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  • Schulz, W., Schunck, R., Diewald, M. & Johnson, W. (2017).
    Pathways of Intergenerational Transmission of Advantages during Adolescence: Social Background, Cognitive Ability, and Educational Attainment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46(10), 2194-2214.
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  • Spinath, F. M. & Bleidorn, W. (2017).
    The New Look of Behavioral Genetics in Social Inequality: Gene‐Environment Interplay and Life Chances. Journal of Personality, 85(1), 5-9.
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  • Hahn, E., Gottschling, J., Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Spengler, M., Kornadt, A. E., Schulz, W., Schunck, R., Baier, T., Krell, K., Lang, V., Lenau, F., Peters, A.-L., Diewald, M., Riemann, R. & Spinath, F. M. (2016).
    What Drives the Development of Social Inequality Over the Life Course? The German TwinLife Study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19(6), 659-672.
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  • Spinath, F. M. (2015).
    Intelligent geboren oder schlau gemacht? Falsch gestellte Fragen und bessere Antworten. In D. H. Rost (Hrsg.), Intelligenz und Begabung, Lernen und Klassenführung (S.47-71). Münster: Waxmann.