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Professor:

Greg Carey
Mail: Dept. of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0345 USA
Office: D261 Muenzinger
Phone: 303-492-1658
Fax:303-492-2967
Email: gregory.carey@colorado.edu
Home Page: http://http://psych.colorado.edu/~carey/HomePage.php

 

Overview:

This course will deal with the relationship between the genetics of personality and the genetics of psychopathology. The genetic epidemiology will be emphasized, not though any lack of interest in molecular genetics, but just because there are very few data in molecular genetics. The course will end with potential applications of the genetic epidemiology to molecular genetic studies.

 

Readings:

Adorno, T. W., Frenkel-Brunswick, E., Levinson, D. J., & Sanford, R. N. (1950). The authoritarian personality. New York: Harper.

Allport, G. W., & Odbert, H. S. (1936). Traitnames. A psycho-lexical study. Psychological Monographs, 47, 211, 171-171.

Beer, J. M., Arnold, R. D., & Loehlin, J. C. (1998). Genetic and environmental influences on MMPI factor scales: Joint model fitting to twin and adoption data. J Pers Soc Psychol, 74(398184022), 818-827.

Blonigen, D. M., Hicks, B. M., Krueger, R. F., Patrick, C. J., & Iacono, W. G. (2005). Psychopathic personality traits: Heritability and genetic overlap with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. Psychological Medicine: A Journal of Research in Psychiatry and the Allied Sciences, 35(5), 637-648. doi:10.1017/S0033291704004180

Borkenau, P., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F. M. (2001). Genetic and environmental influences on observed personality: Evidence from the German observational study of adult twins. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(4), 655-668. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.80.4.655

Bouchard, T. J. J., McGue, M., Hur, Y., & Horn, J. M. (1998). A genetic and environmental analysis of the California Psychological Inventory using adult twins reared apart and together. European Journal of Personality, 12(5), 307-320. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0984(1998090)12:5<307::AID-PER336>3.3.CO;2-B

Buss, A. H., & Plomin, R. (1975). A temperament theory of personality development. New York: Wiley.

Buss, D. M. (2009). An evolutionary formulation of person-situation interactions. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(2), 241-242. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.019

Buss, D. M. (2009). How can evolutionary psychology successfully explain personality and individual differences? Perspectives on Psychological Science.Special Issue: Next Big Questions in Psychology, 4(4), 359-366. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01138.x

Butcher, J. N. (2009). Oxford handbook of personality assessment. New York, NY, US: Oxford University Press.

Cale, E. M. (2006). A quantitative review of the relations between the "big 3" higher order personality dimensions and antisocial behavior. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(3), 250-284. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2005.01.001

Carey, G., & DiLalla, D. L. (1994). Personality and psychopathology: Genetic perspectives. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.Special Issue: Personality and Psychopathology, 103(1), 32-43. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.103.1.32

Cattell, R. B. (1947). Confirmation and clarification of primary personality factors. Psychometrika, 12, 197-220. doi:10.1007/BF02289253

Cattell, R. B. (1956). A shortened "basic english" version (form C) of the 16 PF questionnaire. The Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 257-278.

Cipriani, D. C. (1996). Stability and change in personality across the life span: Behavioral-genetic versus evolutionary approaches. Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 122(1), 55-74.

Cloninger, C. R. (1987). Neurogenetic adaptive mechanisms in alcoholism. Science, 236(4800), 410-416. doi:10.1126/science.2882604

Cloninger, C. R. (1987). A systematic method for clinical description and classification of personality variants: A proposal. Archives of General Psychiatry, 44(6), 573-588.

Cloninger, C. R., Svrakic, D. M., & Przybeck, T. R. (1993). A psychobiological model of temperament and character. Archives of General Psychiatry, 50(12), 975-990.

Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. M. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.

Cronbach, L. J. (1951). Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests. Psychometrika, 16, 297-334. doi:10.1007/BF02310555

De Fruyt, F., Bartels, M., Van Leeuwen, K. G., De Clercq, B., Decuyper, M., & Mervielde, I. (2006). Five types of personality continuity in childhood and adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(3), 538-552. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.91.3.538

DiLalla, D. L., & Carey, G. (2004). In DiLalla L. F. (Ed.), Genetic correlations as "z" variables: Evaluating personality?psychopathology associations. Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/10684-005

Eaves, L. J., Eysenck, H. J., & Martin, N. G. (1989). Genes, culture and personality: An empirical approach. San Diego CA: Academic Press.

Eaves, L., & Eysenck, H. (1975). The nature of extraversion: A genetical analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32(1), 102-112. doi:10.1037/h0076862

Eysenck, H. J. (1990). Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences: The three major dimensions of personality. Journal of Personality.Special Issue: Biological Foundations of Personality: Evolution, Behavioral Genetics, and Psychophysiology, 58(1), 245-261. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1990.tb00915.x

Ferguson, C. J. (2010). Genetic contributions to antisocial personality and behavior: A meta-analytic review from an evolutionary perspective. The Journal of Social Psychology, 150(2), 160-180. doi:10.1080/00224540903366503

Figueredo, A. J., Gladden, P., Vásquez, G., Wolf, P. S. A., & Jones, D. N. (2009). In Corr P. J., Matthews G. (Eds.), Evolutionary theories of personality. New York, NY, US: Cambridge University Press.

Forsman, M., Lichtenstein, P., Andershed, H., & Larsson, H. (2010). A longitudinal twin study of the direction of effects between psychopathic personality and antisocial behaviour. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(1), 39-47. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02141.x

Gagne, J. R., & Goldsmith, H. H. (2011). A longitudinal analysis of anger and inhibitory control in twins from 12 to 36 months of age. Developmental Science, 14(1), 112-124. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00969.x

Gangestad, S. W. (2010). Evolutionary biology looks at behavior genetics. Personality and Individual Differences, 49(4), 289-295. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.005

Gangestad, S., & Snyder, M. (1985). "To carve nature at its joints": On the existence of discrete classes in personality. Psychological Review, 92(3), 317-349. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.92.3.317

Gillespie, N. A., Cloninger, C. R., Heath, A. C., & Martin, N. G. (2003). The genetic and environmental relationship between cloninger's dimensions of temperament and character. Personality and Individual Differences, 35(8), 1931-1946. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00042-4

Goldberg, L. R. (1993). The structure of phenotypic personality traits. American Psychologist, 48(1), 26-34. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.48.1.26

Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. G. (2006). The international personality item pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84-96. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.007

Goldsmith, H. H., Lemery, K. S., Buss, K. A., & Campos, J. J. (1999). Genetic analyses of focal aspects of infant temperament. Developmental Psychology, 35, 972-985. DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.35.4.972

Heath, A. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Martin, N. G. (1994). Testing a model for the genetic structure of personality: A comparison of the personality systems of Cloninger and Eysenck. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66(4), 762-775. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.66.4.762

Heath, A. C., Madden, P. A., Cloninger, C. R., & Martin, N. G. (1999). In Cloninger C. R. (Ed.), Genetic and environmental structure of personality. Washington, DC, US: American Psychiatric Association.

Heath, A. C., & Martin, N. G. (1990). Psychoticism as a dimension of personality: A multivariate genetic test of eysenck and eysenck's psychoticism construct. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(1), 111-121. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.58.1.111

Heath, A.C., Neale, M.C, Kessler, R.C., Eaves, L.J., , & Kendler, K.S.. (1992). Evidence for genetic influences on personality from self-reports and informant ratings. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 85-96.

Hicks, B. M., Blonigen, D. M., Kramer, M. D., Krueger, R. F., Patrick, C. J., Iacono, W. G., & McGue, M. (2007). Gender differences and developmental change in externalizing disorders from late adolescence to early adulthood: A longitudinal twin study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116(3), 433-447. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.116.3.433

Hicks, B. M., Krueger, R. F., lacono, W. G., McGue, M., & Patrick, C. J. (2004). Family transmission and heritability of externalizing disorders: A twin-family study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61(9), 922-928. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.61.9.922

Hicks, B. M., South, S. C., DiRago, A. C., Iacono, W. G., & McGue, M. (2009). Environmental adversity and increasing genetic risk for externalizing disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66(6), 640-648. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2008.554

Hopwood, C. J., Donnellan, M. B., Blonigen, D. M., Krueger, R. F., McGue, M., Iacono, W. G., & Burt, S. A. (2011). Genetic and environmental influences on personality trait stability and growth during the transition to adulthood: A three-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 545-556. doi:10.1037/a0022409

Jackson, D. N., & Messick, S. (1958). Content and style in personality assessment. Psychological Bulletin, 55(4), 243-252. doi:10.1037/h0045996

Jang, K. L. (., Wolf, H. (., & Larstone, R. (. (2006). What is the role of personality in psychopathology?: A view from behavior genetics. In R. F. Krueger, & J. L. Tackett (Eds.), Personality and psychopathology. (pp. 153-173). New York, NY, US: Guilford Press.

Jang, K. L., Livesley, W. J., Ando, J., Yamagata, S., Suzuki, A., Angleitner, A., . . . Spinath, F. (2006). Behavioral genetics of the higher-order factors of the big five. Personality and Individual Differences, 41(2), 261-272. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.033

Johnson, W., McGue, M., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Personality stability in late adulthood: A behavioral genetic analysis. Journal of Personality, 73(2), 523-551. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00319.x

Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R., Spinath, F. M., Thiel, W., & Angleitner, A. (2010). Sources of cumulative continuity in personality: A longitudinal multiple-rater twin study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(6), 995-1008. doi:10.1037/a0019558

Kendler, K. S., & Myers, J. (2010). The genetic and environmental relationship between major depression and the five-factor model of personality. Psychological Medicine: A Journal of Research in Psychiatry and the Allied Sciences, 40(5), 801-806. doi:10.1017/S003329170999114

Kendler, K. S., Gatz, M., Gardner, C. O., & Pederse, N. L. (2006). Personality and major depression. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63(10), 1113-1120. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.63.10.1113

Krueger, R. F., Eaton, N. R., Clark, L. A., Watson, D., Markon, K. E., Derringer, J., . . . John Livesley, W. (2011). Deriving an empirical structure of personality pathology for DSM-5. Journal of Personality Disorders.Special Issue: Proposals for DSM-5, 25(2), 170-191. doi:10.1521/pedi.2011.25.2.170

Krueger, R. F., Hicks, B. M., Patrick, C. J., Carlson, S. R., Iacono, W. G., & McGue, M. (2002). Etiologic connections among substance dependence, antisocial behavior and personality: Modeling the externalizing spectrum. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111(3), 411-424. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.111.3.411

Krueger, R. F., & Markon, K. E. (2006). Understanding psychopathology: Melding behavior genetics, personality, and quantitative psychology to develop an empirically based model. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15(3), 113-117. doi:10.1111/j.0963-7214.2006.00418.x

Krueger, R. F., Markon, K. E., Patrick, C. J., & Iacono, W. G. (2005). Externalizing psychopathology in adulthood: A dimensional-spectrum conceptualization and its implications for DSM-V. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.Special Issue: Toward a Dimensionally Based Taxonomy of Psychopathology, 114(4), 537-550. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.114.4.537

Krueger, R. F., Markon, K. E., & Bouchard, T. J. (2003). The extended genotype: The heritability of personality accounts for the heritability of recalled family environments in twins reared apart. Journal of Personality, 71(5), 809-833. doi:10.1111/1467-6494.7105005

Loehlin, J. C., & Nichols, R. C. (1976). Heredity, environment, and personality. Austin TX: University of Texas Press.

Loehlin, J. C., McCrae, R. R., Costa, P. T. J., & John, O. P. (1998). Heritabilities of common and measure-specific components of the big five personality factors. Journal of Research in Personality, 32(4), 431-453. doi:10.1006/jrpe.1998.2225

Lykken, D. T., Bouchard, T. J., McGue, M., & Tellegen, A. (1993). Heritability of interests: A twin study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78(4), 649-661. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.78.4.649

Lykken, D. T., McGue, M., Bouchard, T. J., & Tellegen, A. (1990). Does contact lead to similarity or similarity to contact? Behavior Genetics, 20(5), 547-561. doi:10.1007/BF01065871

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Markon, K. E., Krueger, R. F., Bouchard, T. J. J., & Gottesman, I. I. (2002). Normal and abnormal personality traits: Evidence for genetic and environmental relationships in the Minnesota study of twins reared apart. Journal of Personality, 70(5), 661-693. doi:10.1111/1467-6494.05020

Markon, K. E., Krueger, R. F., & Watson, D. (2005). Delineating the structure of normal and abnormal personality: An integrative hierarchical approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(1), 139-157. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.88.1.139

McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T. J. (1999). A five-factor theory of personality. In L. A. Pervin, & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality research, 2nd ed. (pp. 139-153). New York: Guilford Press.

McCrae, R. R., Jang, K. L., Livesley, W. J., Riemann, R., & Angleitner, A. (2001). Sources of structure: Genetic, environmental, and artifactual influences on the covariation of personality traits. Journal of Personality, 69(4), 511-535. doi:10.1111/1467-6494.694154

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McCrae, R. R., Scally, M., Terracciano, A., Abecasis, G. R., & Costa, P. T. (2010). An alternative to the search for single polymorphisms: Toward molecular personality scales for the five-factor model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(6), 1014-1024. doi:10.1037/a0020964

McCrae, R. R., Yamagata, S., Jang, K. L., Riemann, R., Ando, J., Ono, Y., . . . Spinath, F. M. (2008). Substance and artifact in the higher-order factors of the big five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(2), 442-455. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.95.2.442

McGue, M., Bacon, S., & Lykken, D. T. (1993). Personality stability and change in early adulthood: A behavioral genetic analysis. Developmental Psychology, 29(1), 96-109. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.29.1.96

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Moore, M., Schermer, J. A., Paunonen, S. V., & Vernon, P. A. (2010). Genetic and environmental influences on verbal and nonverbal measures of the big five. Personality and Individual Differences, 48(8), 884-888. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.02.015

Mullineaux, P. Y., Deater-Deckard, K., Petrill, S. A., Thompson, L. A., & DeThorne, L. S. (2009). Temperament in middle childhood: A behavioral genetic analysis of fathers’ and mothers’ reports. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(5), 737-746. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2009.04.008

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Yamagata, S., Suzuki, A., Ando, J., Ono, Y., Kijima, N., Yoshimura, K., . . . Jang, K. L. (2006). Is the genetic structure of human personality universal? A cross-cultural twin study from north america, europe, and asia. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90(6), 987-998. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.90.6.987

 

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