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| ERIC NATHAN TURKHEIMERSummaryAffiliation: University of Virginia Country: USA Publications
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A Children of Twins Study of parental divorce and offspring psychopathologyBrian M D'Onofrio
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University 47405, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:667-75. 2007..The relations may be due to genetic or environmental selection factors, characteristics that lead to both marital separation and offspring functioning...
Heritability and biological explanationE Turkheimer
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22903, USA
Psychol Rev 105:782-91. 1998....- Analysis and interpretation of twin studies including measures of the shared environmentEric Turkheimer
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904 4400, USA
Child Dev 76:1217-33. 2005.... - Socioeconomic status modifies heritability of IQ in young childrenEric Turkheimer
University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904, USA
Psychol Sci 14:623-8. 2003..The models suggest that in impoverished families, 60% of the variance in IQ is accounted for by the shared environment, and the contribution of genes is close to zero; in affluent families, the result is almost exactly the reverse... - Deliberate self-harm in a nonclinical population: prevalence and psychological correlatesE David Klonsky
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:1501-8. 2003..The present study investigated the prevalence and correlates of deliberate self-harm in a large group of nonclinical subjects... - The interpersonal problems of the socially avoidant: self and peer shared varianceThomas L Rodebaugh
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, 63130, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:331-40. 2010..Similar results were found for both dependent personality disorder traits and narcissistic personality disorder traits, exceeding our expectations for this method... - Identification and explanation of racial differences on contamination measuresMonnica T Williams
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Behav Res Ther 45:3041-50. 2007..A confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the difference between Black and White participants on the pathological anxiety factor was eliminated when differences on the attitude factors were controlled statistically... - The effect of assumptions about parental assortative mating and genotype-income correlation on estimates of genotype-environment interaction in the National Merit Twin StudyJohn C Loehlin
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 0187, USA
Behav Genet 39:165-9. 2009..Another possible explanation, a greater freedom of members of DZ pairs at higher income levels to follow independent interests, remained plausible... - Marital conflict and conduct problems in Children of TwinsK Paige Harden
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
Child Dev 78:1-18. 2007..Furthermore, genetic influences mediated the association between marital conflict frequency and conduct problems. These results highlight the need for quasiexperimental designs in investigations of intergenerational associations... - Family structure and age at menarche: a children-of-twins approachJane Mendle
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
Dev Psychol 42:533-42. 2006..These findings strongly suggest selection, and not causation, accounts for the relationship between stepfathering and early menarche... - The Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP): temporal stability and predictive validity of the diagnostic scalesAlison H Melley
University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904-4400, USA
Assessment 9:181-7. 2002..The results provide some evidence for the validity of the SNAP.. - Genotype by environment interaction in adolescents' cognitive aptitudeK Paige Harden
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, P O Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Behav Genet 37:273-83. 2007.... - Regional analysis of self-reported personality disorder criteriaEric Turkheimer
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
J Pers 76:1587-622. 2008..Regional interpretation in three dimensions elucidates several important aspects of PDs and their interrelationships... - Gene-environment correlation and interaction in peer effects on adolescent alcohol and tobacco useK Paige Harden
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, PO Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Behav Genet 38:339-47. 2008..Moreover, adolescents who were genetically liable to substance use were more vulnerable to the adverse influences of their best friends--a gene-environment interaction... - Alcohol use in adolescent twins and affiliation with substance using peersJennifer Hill
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, P O Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:81-94. 2008..The association between alcohol use and peer behavior may be a spurious association attributable to a shared genetic liability to drink alcohol and associate with peers who drink alcohol... - Improving assessment of personality disorder traits through social network analysisAllan Clifton
Department of Psychology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 0127, USA
J Pers 75:1007-31. 2007..Partitioning networks into two subgroups achieved more consistent improvements than multiple subgroups. We discuss implications for multiple informant assessments... - A behavior genetic investigation of adolescent motherhood and offspring mental health problemsK Paige Harden
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesvile, VA 29904 4400, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:667-83. 2007..The generalizability of these results to the United States, which has a higher adolescent birth rate, is discussed... - A genetically informed study of the association between harsh punishment and offspring behavioral problemsStacy K Lynch
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
J Fam Psychol 20:190-8. 2006.... - A genetically informed study of marital instability and its association with offspring psychopathologyBrian M D'Onofrio
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:570-86. 2005..The results are consistent with a causal connection between marital instability and psychopathology in young-adult offspring... - Impaired social functioning and symptoms of personality disorders assessed by peer and self-report in a nonclinical populationThomas F Oltmanns
Department of Psychology, P O Box 400400, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
J Pers Disord 16:437-52. 2002..Overall, our results complement those from clinical samples and provide further evidence that there is an association between PD traits and impaired social functioning... - Factorial structure of pathological personality as evaluated by peersCannon Thomas
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904-4400, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:81-91. 2003..However, cross-method correlations of factor scores were only moderate, suggesting that peer reports are reliably different from self-reports regarding the presence of pathological personality traits... - Gender role and personality disordersE David Klonsky
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 102 Gilmer Hall, P O Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
J Pers Disord 16:464-76. 2002..Both men and women who typically behaved consistent with their gender had more narcissistic and histrionic features, whereas participants who typically behaved unlike their gender had more features of the Cluster A personality disorders... - Ethnic identification biases responses to the Padua Inventory for obsessive-compulsive disorderMonnica T Williams
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904, USA
Assessment 12:174-85. 2005..Results suggest that extraneous factors contribute to racial differences on scores. Cultural practices and fear of being negatively stereotyped may contribute to item bias... - Combining nonlinear biometric and psychometric models of cognitive abilitiesElliot M Tucker-Drob
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, P O Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA, 22904 4400, USA
Behav Genet 39:461-71. 2009..We then reanalyze data from the National Collaborative Perinatal Project, previously used by Turkheimer et al. (2003; Psychol Science), with a two-step method to model both phenomena... - Interpersonal perception and pathological personality features: consistency across peer groupsSusan C South
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, USA
J Pers 73:675-91. 2005..There was considerable convergence between personality disorder features and negative evaluations by others, with participants high in detachment eliciting the most negative reactions from peers in the lab... - Personality disorder not otherwise specified: searching for an empirically based diagnostic thresholdJason L Pagan
Department of Psychology, One Brookings Drive, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
J Personal Disord 19:674-89. 2005..This definition identified 5.5% of the young adults who were interviewed in this study... - A genetically informed study of the processes underlying the association between parental marital instability and offspring adjustmentBrian M D'Onofrio
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, VA 47405, USA
Dev Psychol 42:486-99. 2006..In contrast, the increased risk for cohabitation and earlier initiation of drug use was explained by selection factors, including genetic confounds. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)... - Self- and peer perspectives on pathological personality traits and interpersonal problemsAllan Clifton
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Psychol Assess 17:123-31. 2005.... - Detection of aberrant responding on a personality scale in a military sample: an application of evaluating person fit with two-level logistic regressionCarol M Woods
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Psychol Assess 20:159-68. 2008..Other potential sources of aberrancy were carelessness, haphazard responding, or uncooperativeness. Social desirability was not as influential as expected... - Personality disorder symptoms and marital functioningSusan C South
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 76:769-80. 2008..The incremental validity of spouse report for several of the 10 PD scales was supported for marital satisfaction and verbal aggression, particularly for the Borderline and Dependent PD scales... - Population density and youth antisocial behaviorK Paige Harden
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:999-1008. 2009..Rather, the association between population density and delinquency appears to be due to unmeasured selection variables that differ between families who live in more or less densely populated counties... - The emotional experience of intercourse and sexually transmitted diseases: a decision-tree analysisKathleen L Whitten
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA
Sex Transm Dis 30:348-56. 2003..This underscores the need for interventions targeted to specific subgroups and for readily available mental health services... - Intergenerational transmission of childhood conduct problems: a Children of Twins StudyBrian M D'Onofrio
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 1101 E 10th St, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:820-9. 2007..The familial nature of childhood conduct problems has been well documented, but few genetically informed studies have explicitly explored the processes through which parental conduct problems influence an offspring's behavior problems... - Searching for an environmental effect of parental alcoholism on offspring alcohol use disorder: a genetically informed study of children of alcoholicsWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:534-51. 2008..The results of this study suggest that the direct causal effect of being exposed to an alcoholic parent on offspring alcohol use disorder is modest at best... - Age at first sexual intercourse and teenage pregnancy in Australian female twinsMary Waldron
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, United States of America
Twin Res Hum Genet 10:440-9. 2007.... - Gender bias in diagnostic criteria for personality disorders: an item response theory analysisJ Serrita Jane
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:166-75. 2007..For 1 paranoid personality disorder criterion and 3 antisocial criteria, men were more likely to endorse the biased items. For 2 schizoid personality disorder criteria, women were more likely to endorse the biased items... - Meta-perception for pathological personality traits: do we know when others think that we are difficult?Thomas F Oltmanns
Washington University in St Louis, USA
Conscious Cogn 14:739-51. 2005..It therefore appears that insight into how one is viewed by others can moderate negative impressions fostered by PD traits... - Traits associated with personality disorders and adjustment to military life: predictive validity of self and peer reportsEdna R Fiedler
Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, TX 78236-5300, USA
Mil Med 169:207-11. 2004..Peers provide useful information that is not redundant with that provided by the individual. When possible, assessment of personality problems should be considered from information obtained from peers or other informants... - The interrater reliability of the Structured Interview for DSM-IV PersonalityJ Serrita Jane
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University New Haven, CT 06510, USA
Compr Psychiatry 47:368-75. 2006..70, with the notable exception of criteria scored through observation only. Overall, the SIDP-IV demonstrated good reliability in a non-treatment-seeking population...
Research Grants
- Combinations of genetic and environmental risk for externalization in adolescenceEric Turkheimer; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Combinations of genetic and environmental risk for externalization in adolescenceEric Turkheimer; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Combinations of genetic and environmental risk for externalization in adolescenceERIC NATHAN TURKHEIMER; Fiscal Year: 2010....