Three gaps and what they may mean for risk preference

R Hertwig, DU Wulff, R Mata - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Risk preference is one of the most important building blocks of choice theories in the
behavioural sciences. In economics, it is often conceptualized as preferences concerning …

Genome-wide association studies of impulsive personality traits (BIS-11 and UPPS-P) and drug experimentation in up to 22,861 adult research participants identify …

S Sanchez-Roige, P Fontanillas, SL Elson… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Impulsive personality traits are complex heritable traits that are governed by frontal-
subcortical circuits and are associated with numerous neuropsychiatric disorders …

Can we infer inter-individual differences in risk-taking from behavioral tasks?

S Palminteri, C Chevallier - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Investigating the bases of inter-individual differences in risk-taking is necessary to refine our
cognitive and neural models of decision-making and to ultimately counter risky behaviors in …

Education, smoking, and cohort change: Forwarding a multidimensional theory of the environmental moderation of genetic effects

R Wedow, M Zacher, BM Huibregtse… - American …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Sociologists interested in the effects of genes on complex social outcomes claim
environmental conditions structure when and how genes matter, but they have only studied …

An integrative evolutionary framework for psychopathology

M Del Giudice, JD Haltigan - Development and psychopathology, 2023 - cambridge.org
The field of psychopathology is in a transformative phase, and is witnessing a renewed
surge of interest in theoretical models of mental disorders. While many interesting proposals …

Causal influences of same-sex attraction on psychological distress and risky sexual behaviors: evidence for bidirectional effects

OA Oginni, KX Lim, KL Purves, Y Lu… - Archives of Sexual …, 2023 - Springer
Although health disparities among same-sex attracted compared to heterosexual individuals
are typically explained by minority stress, there is limited evidence for a causal effect. This …

Unpacking genetic risk pathways for college student alcohol consumption: the mediating role of impulsivity

AJ Ksinan, J Su, F Aliev… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background The period of college represents a particularly risky developmental stage with
regard to alcohol use, as college students engage in more risky drinking behaviors than …

Sensation-seeking-related DNA methylation and the development of delinquency: A longitudinal epigenome-wide study

JM Tieskens, PAC van Lier, JM Buil… - Development and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Heightened sensation-seeking is related to the development of delinquency. Moreover,
sensation-seeking, or biological correlates of sensation-seeking, are suggested as factors …

The propensity for aggressive behavior and lifetime incarceration risk: A test for gene-environment interaction (G× E) using whole-genome data

JC Barnes, H Liu, RT Motz, PT Tanksley, R Kail… - Aggression and violent …, 2019 - Elsevier
Incarceration is a disruptive event that is experienced by a considerable proportion of the
United States population. Research has identified social factors that predict incarceration …

Cigarette smoking and personality: interrogating causality using Mendelian randomisation

HM Sallis, GD Smith, MR Munafò - Psychological Medicine, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundDespite the well-documented association between smoking and personality
traits such as neuroticism and extraversion, little is known about the potential causal nature …