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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.
  • Bozhinoska Lazarova, M., & Spörlein, C. (2025).
    How successfully do immigrant parents transfer their voting behavior to their offspring?
    Frontiers in Political Science, 6, 1472040.
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  • Dierker, P., & Diewald, M. (2025).
    Compensation or accentuation? How parents from different social backgrounds decide to support their children.
    European Sociological Review, 41, 111–126.
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  • Harerimana, N. V., Liu, Y., & Ruks, M. (2025).
    Neighborhood context, genetic influences, and life satisfaction: Evidence from the German twin family panel.
    PLOS One, 20(8), e0316416.
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  • Jungkunz, S., & Marx, P. (2025).
    Parental income moderates the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest in adolescents.
    Politics and the Life Sciences, 1–11.
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  • Kandler, C., & Instinske, J. (2025).
    The polygenic and poly-environmental nature of personality.
    Current Opinion in Psychology, 65, 102068. 
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  • Klatzka, C. H., Raufeisen, O., Hahn, E., & Spinath, F. M. (2025).
    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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  • Kuznetsov, D. V., Liu, Y., Schowe, A. M., Czamara, D., Instinske, I., Pahnke, C. K. L., Nöthen, M. M., Spinath, F. M., Binder, E. B., Diewald, M., Forstner, A. J., Kandler C., & Mönkediek, B. (2025).
    Genetic and environmental contributions to epigenetic aging across adolescence and young adulthood.
    Clinical Epigenetics, 17, 78.
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  • Oncioiu, S. I., Korde, A., Klatzka, C. H., & Bowes, L. (2025).
    Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study.
    International Journal of Behavioral Development (Online First).
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  • Vella, M. (2025).
    Three essays in labour economics: personality traits and labour market outcomes.
    Doktorarbeit, University of Essex.
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  • Zapko-Willmes, A., & Theocharis, Y. (2025).
    Accounting for the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Youth Political Participation: A Twin Family Study.
    Political Psychology, 46(1), 185–204.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Hegelund, E.R., Mortensen, E.L., Flensborg-Madsen, T., Dammeyer, J., Christensen, K., McGue, M., Klatzka, C.H., Spinath, F.M., & Johnson, W. (2024).
    The Moderating Influence of School Achievement on Intelligence: A Cross-National Comparison.
    Behavior Genetics.
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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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  • Oncioiu, S.-I., Korde, A., Klatzka, C., & Bowes, L. (2024).
    Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study.
    International Journal of Behavioral Development.
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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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  • van Ditmars, M. M., & Ksiazkiewicz, A. (2024).
    The gender gap in political interest: Heritability, gendered political socialization, and the enriched environment hypothesis.
    Politics and the Life Sciences, 43(2), 152–166.
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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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  • 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., 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.