Eric Turkheimer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eric Nathan Turkheimer is an American psychologist and the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Early life and education Turkheimer is the son of Nathan Turkheimer, the former board chairman of the public relations law firm Turkheimer & Ryan, Inc., and his wife, Barbara Tack Turkheimer. He grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, where he graduated from Croton Harmon High School in 1971. He is Jewish. He received his B.A. in psychology from Haverford College in 1976. He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986, where he studied under Lee Willerman and John Loehlin.
Eric Turkheimer's Published Works
Published Works
- Socioeconomic Status Modifies Heritability of IQ in Young Children (2003) (1254)
- Three Laws of Behavior Genetics and What They Mean (2000) (836)
- Deliberate self-harm in a nonclinical population: prevalence and psychological correlates. (2003) (802)
- Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. (2012) (797)
- Nonshared environment: a theoretical, methodological, and quantitative review. (2000) (480)
- Detrimental Psychological Outcomes Associated with Early Pubertal Timing in Adolescent Girls. (2007) (423)
- Critical need for family-based, quasi-experimental designs in integrating genetic and social science research. (2013) (286)
- Access to green space, physical activity and mental health: a twin study (2015) (236)
- Perceptions of people with personality disorders based on thin slices of behavior (2004) (199)
- Genotype by Environment Interaction in Adolescents’ Cognitive Aptitude (2007) (198)
- The role of the children of twins design in elucidating causal relations between parent characteristics and child outcomes. (2003) (197)
- Associations between father absence and age of first sexual intercourse. (2009) (175)
- Emergence of a Gene × Socioeconomic Status Interaction on Infant Mental Ability Between 10 Months and 2 Years (2011) (175)
- Gene-Environment Correlation and Interaction in Peer Effects on Adolescent Alcohol and Tobacco Use (2008) (173)
- A phenotypic null hypothesis for the genetics of personality. (2014) (167)
- Perceptions of Self and Others Regarding Pathological Personality Traits. (2006) (167)
- Heritability and biological explanation. (1998) (159)
- Peer network drinking predicts increased alcohol use from adolescence to early adulthood after controlling for genetic and shared environmental selection. (2012) (145)
- The Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (Snap) (2002) (139)
- A genetically informed study of marital instability and its association with offspring psychopathology. (2005) (126)
- Person Perception and Personality Pathology (2009) (123)
- Traits associated with personality disorders and adjustment to military life: predictive validity of self and peer reports. (2004) (122)
- Family structure and age at menarche: a children-of-twins approach. (2006) (120)
- The role of ethnic identity in symptoms of anxiety and depression in African Americans (2012) (119)
- The General Factor of Personality and Evaluation (2012) (114)
- A genetically informed study of the processes underlying the association between parental marital instability and offspring adjustment. (2006) (112)
- Beyond Heritability (2009) (111)
- Rethinking Timing of First Sex and Delinquency (2008) (110)
- Barriers to treatment among African Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder. (2012) (110)
- A genetically informed study of the association between harsh punishment and offspring behavioral problems. (2006) (103)
- Personality disorder symptoms and marital functioning. (2008) (101)
- A Children of Twins Study of parental divorce and offspring psychopathology. (2007) (100)
- Intergenerational transmission of childhood conduct problems: a Children of Twins Study. (2007) (100)
- Gene‐environment interplay in common complex diseases: forging an integrative model—recommendations from an NIH workshop (2011) (99)
- Myth of the pure obsessional type in obsessive–compulsive disorder (2011) (98)
- Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts. (2017) (95)
- Self- and peer perspectives on pathological personality traits and interpersonal problems. (2005) (91)
- Analysis and interpretation of twin studies including measures of the shared environment. (2005) (86)
- Testing Quasi-Causal Hypotheses Using Multivariate Twin Data (2013) (82)
- Parental depression and offspring psychopathology: a Children of Twins study (2010) (82)
- Factorial structure of pathological personality as evaluated by peers. (2003) (79)
- A behavior genetic investigation of adolescent motherhood and offspring mental health problems. (2007) (79)
- Still Missing (2011) (78)
- Individual and Group Differences in Adoption Studies of IQ (1991) (76)
- Gender bias in diagnostic criteria for personality disorders: an item response theory analysis. (2007) (75)
- Marital conflict and conduct problems in Children of Twins. (2007) (72)
- Meta-perception for pathological personality traits: Do we know when others think that we are difficult? (2005) (70)
- Illustration of MIMIC-Model DIF Testing with the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (2009) (70)
- Family environment and the malleability of cognitive ability: A Swedish national home-reared and adopted-away cosibling control study (2015) (69)
- Contrasting perspectives on personality problems: descriptions from the self and others (2004) (68)
- Personality disorder in social networks: Network position as a marker of interpersonal dysfunction (2009) (65)
- Accounting for the physical and mental health benefits of entry into marriage: a genetically informed study of selection and causation. (2013) (64)
- Neuropsychological Function and Brain Imaging (1989) (63)
- Individual differences and the canalization of human behavior. (1991) (62)
- Phenotype–environment correlations in longitudinal twin models (2013) (62)
- Impaired social functioning and symptoms of personality disorders assessed by peer and self-report in a nonclinical population. (2002) (61)
- Ethnic Identification Biases Responses to the Padua Inventory for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (2005) (60)
- The interrater reliability of the Structured Interview for DSM-IV Personality. (2006) (59)
- The impact of symptom dimensions on outcome for exposure and ritual prevention therapy in obsessive-compulsive disorder. (2014) (59)
- Volumetric asymmetries of the human brain: Intellectual correlates (1987) (58)
- Searching for an environmental effect of parental alcoholism on offspring alcohol use disorder: a genetically informed study of children of alcoholics. (2008) (58)
- Spinach and Ice Cream: Why Social Science Is So Difficult. (2004) (57)
- A Genetically Informed Study of the Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Instability. (2007) (55)
- Sex Differences in Variability for Cognitive Measures (2009) (54)
- Psychometric Analysis of Racial Differences on the Maudsley Obsessional Compulsive Inventory (2000) (47)
- Being Liked is More than Having a Good Personality: The Role of Matching. (2009) (47)
- Interpersonal perception and personality disorders: Utilization of a thin slice approach (2007) (46)
- Cultural barriers to African American participation in anxiety disorders research. (2013) (46)
- Gene–Environment Correlation as a Source of Stability and Diversity in Development (2017) (44)
- Intellectual and Memory Impairment in Dementia: Computerized Axial Tomography Volume Correlations (1985) (43)
- Is marriage a buzzkill? A twin study of marital status and alcohol consumption. (2016) (43)
- Identification and explanation of racial differences on contamination measures. (2007) (43)
- Racial differences in the associations of neighborhood disadvantage, exposure to violence, and criminal recidivism among female juvenile offenders. (2009) (42)
- Alcohol Use in Adolescent Twins and Affiliation with Substance Using Peers (2008) (42)
- Quantifying cortical atrophy. (1984) (42)
- Mixed impressions: Reactions of strangers to people with pathological personality traits (2006) (42)
- The effects of race and racial priming on self-report of contamination anxiety. (2008) (40)
- A genetically informed study of associations between family functioning and child psychosocial adjustment. (2011) (40)
- Personality and the derogation of others: Descriptions based on self- and peer report (2003) (39)
- Offspring ADHD as a Risk Factor for Parental Marital Problems: Controls for Genetic and Environmental Confounds (2012) (38)
- Item Selection, Evaluation, and Simple Structure in Personality Data. (2010) (38)
- Gender role and personality disorders. (2002) (36)
- Genome Wide Association Studies of Behavior are Social Science (2012) (36)
- The fetal-pelvic index has minimal utility in predicting fetal-pelvic disproportion. (1998) (36)
- Do maladaptive behaviors exist at one or both ends of personality traits? (2014) (35)
- Simulating the dynamics of genes and environment in development (1996) (35)
- Nature or Nurture? Determining the Heritability of Human Striatal Dopamine Function: an [18F]-DOPA PET Study (2013) (34)
- Three Laws of Behavior Genetics and (2000) (33)
- Regional analysis of self-reported personality disorder criteria. (2008) (33)
- Weak Genetic Explanation 20 Years Later (2016) (33)
- Socioeconomic modifiers of genetic and environmental influences on body mass index in adult twins. (2016) (32)
- Level of Agreement Between Self and Spouse in the Assessment of Personality Pathology (2011) (30)
- The Effect of Assumptions About Parental Assortative Mating and Genotype–Income Correlation on Estimates of Genotype–Environment Interaction in the National Merit Twin Study (2009) (30)
- The Scarr–Rowe Interaction between Measured Socioeconomic Status and the Heritability of Cognitive Ability (2012) (30)
- Commentary: variation and causation in the environment and genome. (2011) (30)
- The interpersonal problems of the socially avoidant: self and peer shared variance. (2010) (28)
- Genetics and human agency: comment on Dar-Nimrod and Heine (2011). (2011) (28)
- Interactions Between Socioeconomic Status and Components of Variation in Cognitive Ability (2014) (28)
- Group differences in IQ are best understood as environmental in origin. (2012) (28)
- Morphological brain abnormalities in schizophrenia determined by computed tomography: A problem of measurement? (1987) (27)
- Personality disorder not otherwise specified: searching for an empirically based diagnostic threshold. (2005) (27)
- Detection of aberrant responding on a personality scale in a military sample: an application of evaluating person fit with two-level logistic regression. (2008) (25)
- Touch relieves stress and pain (1995) (25)
- Gender Differences in the Structure of Marital Quality (2018) (25)
- Is H2 = 0 a null hypothesis anymore? (1991) (25)
- A Twin Study on Perceived Stress, Depressive Symptoms, and Marriage (2017) (25)
- Why the gap? Practice and policy in civil commitment hearings. (1992) (25)
- Population density and youth antisocial behavior. (2009) (24)
- Approach temperament, anger, and evaluation: resolving a paradox. (2013) (24)
- Quasi-causal associations of physical activity and neighborhood walkability with body mass index: a twin study. (2015) (24)
- A reanalysis of gender differences in IQ scores following unilateral brain lesions (1992) (23)
- Does your family make you smarter: Nature, nurture, and human autonomy, James Flynn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2016), 258, Softcover, ISBN-10: 1316604462 (2017) (23)
- Neighborhood deprivation and depression in adult twins: genetics and gene×environment interaction (2016) (22)
- Sleep Duration and Area-Level Deprivation in Twins. (2016) (22)
- Stepping towards causation in studies of neighborhood and environmental effects: how twin research can overcome problems of selection and reverse causation. (2014) (22)
- Combining Nonlinear Biometric and Psychometric Models of Cognitive Abilities (2009) (21)
- Flynn, the Age-Table Method, and a metatheory of intelligence (2017) (21)
- Socioeconomic status amplifies genetic effects in middle childhood in a large German twin sample. (2019) (21)
- Preschooler's Understanding of the Role of Mental States and Action in Pretense (2004) (20)
- Recollections of conflict with parents and family support in the personality disorders. (2000) (19)
- Behavioral and Environmental Modification of the Genetic Influence on Body Mass Index: A Twin Study (2015) (18)
- Quantitative assessment of covariation between neuropsychological function and location of naturally occurring lesions in humans. (1990) (18)
- The Washington State Twin Registry: 2019 Update (2019) (18)
- Revisiting the effect of marital support on depressive symptoms in mothers and fathers: a genetically informed study. (2011) (18)
- Relationship between cognitive and morphological asymmetry in dementia of the Alzheimer type: a CT scan study. (1987) (18)
- The Influence of Sex and Age on Unilateral Cerebral Lesion Sequelae (1984) (17)
- Modeling psychiatric patients' treatment decision making (1995) (17)
- Digital planimetry in APLSF (1983) (16)
- Techniques of Quantitative Measurement of Morphological Structures of the Central Nervous System (1989) (16)
- Age at First Sexual Intercourse and Teenage Pregnancy in Australian Female Twins (2007) (15)
- Genetic Prediction. (2015) (15)
- Decision making in a schizophrenic population (1992) (14)
- Interpersonal perception and pathological personality features: consistency across peer groups. (2005) (14)
- Interaction between Parental Education and Twin Correlations for Cognitive Ability in a Norwegian Conscript Sample (2017) (14)
- Improving assessment of personality disorder traits through social network analysis. (2007) (14)
- Across the great divide: pluralism and the hunt for missing heritability (2019) (13)
- Twin Differentiation of Cognitive Ability Through Phenotype to Environment Transmission: The Louisville Twin Study (2015) (13)
- Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology: Behavior Genetic Research Methods (2014) (13)
- Quantitative analysis of gender differences in the effects of lateralized lesions on verbal and performance IQ (1993) (13)
- Basic relations among lesion laterality, lesion volume and neuropsychological performance (1990) (12)
- The Emotional Experience of Intercourse and Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Decision-Tree Analysis (2003) (12)
- Genetic and environmental associations between body dissatisfaction, weight preoccupation, and binge eating: Evidence for a common factor with differential loadings across symptom type (2017) (10)
- Peer-reported personality problems of research nonparticipants: Are our samples biased? (2006) (10)
- Famous artefacts : Spearman's hypothesis. Author's reply (1997) (10)
- New Findings and Theoretical Developments (2012) (10)
- Gender Differences in Brain Morphometry and Function (1996) (10)
- Chapter 4 The Effects of Interviewer Race on Anxiety in African Americans (2008) (10)
- Genetic and environmental influences on human height from infancy through adulthood at different levels of parental education (2020) (10)
- Sleep Duration and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Twin Study. (2019) (9)
- "Intelligence: New findings and theoretical developments": Correction to Nisbett et al. (2012). (2012) (9)
- Childhood Sexual Abuse Moderates Genetic Influences on Age at First Consensual Sexual Intercourse in Women (2008) (8)
- Education in Twins and Their Parents Across Birth Cohorts Over 100 years: An Individual-Level Pooled Analysis of 42-Twin Cohorts (2017) (8)
- Associations Between Fast-Food Consumption and Body Mass Index: A Cross-Sectional Study in Adult Twins (2015) (8)
- Psychological Distress, Emotional Stability, and Emotion Regulation Moderate Dynamics of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Recurrence (2015) (8)
- An Exploratory Analysis of Father Involvement in Low-Income Families (2003) (8)
- Differential models of twin correlations in skew for body-mass index (BMI) (2018) (8)
- The Scarr-Rowe Interaction in Complete Seven-Year WISC Data from the Louisville Twin Study: Preliminary Report (2015) (7)
- Multivariate analysis of the Scarr-Rowe interaction across middle childhood and early adolescence (2019) (7)
- Midlife risk factors for late-life cognitive decline (2018) (7)
- Ventricular Enlargement, Cortical Atrophy and Neuropsychological Performance Following Head Injury (1984) (6)
- Genetically informed, multilevel analysis of the Flynn Effect across four decades and three WISC versions. (2021) (6)
- Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult body mass index by sex , age , time period , and region : an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts (2017) (6)
- Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Behavioral Stability and Change in Children 6–36 months of Age Using Louisville Twin Study Data (2015) (6)
- Length of hospitalization and outcome of commitment and recommitment hearings. (1992) (6)
- Widowhood and the Stability of Late Life Depressive Symptomatology in the Swedish Adoption Twin Study of Aging (2016) (5)
- Applying Biometric Growth Curve Models to Developmental Synchronies in Cognitive Development: The Louisville Twin Study (2015) (5)
- Midlife Study of the Louisville Twins: Connecting Cognitive Development to Biological and Cognitive Aging (2019) (5)
- Memory dysfunction in depressed spousal caregivers (1992) (5)
- Multidimensional Representation of Decision-making in Chronic Schizophrenics. (1995) (5)
- Galton's Quincunx: Probabilistic causation in developmental behavior genetics. (2021) (5)
- Testing the moderation of quantitative gene by environment interactions in unrelated individuals (2017) (5)
- What Do We Know About the Genetic Architecture of Psychopathology? (2022) (4)
- An Early History of the Heritability Coefficient Applied to Humans (1918–1960) (2021) (4)
- Statistical Analysis, Experimental Method, and Causal Inference in Developmental Behavioral Genetics (2000) (4)
- Psychometric and Classification Properties of the Peas in a Pod Questionnaire (2020) (4)
- Race, Ethnicity, and the Scarr-Rowe Hypothesis: A Cautionary Example of Fringe Science Entering the Mainstream (2021) (4)
- Cohort Profile: TWINS study of environment, lifestyle behaviours and health. (2018) (4)
- Three legs of the missing heritability problem. (2022) (4)
- A comparison of commitment and recommitment hearings: legal and policy implications. (1992) (4)
- Widowhood and the Stability of Late Life Depressive Symptomatology in the Swedish Adoption Twin Study of Aging (2015) (3)
- The Louisville Twin Study: Past, Present and Future (2019) (3)
- Self-Reported Personality Pathology Has Complex Structure and Imposing Simple Structure Degrades Test Information (2014) (3)
- The Value of Twin Studies: A Response to Slate Magazine / Research Reviews / Twin News Worth Noting (2011) (3)
- A comparison of respondents in initial and recommitment hearings (1991) (3)
- Cross-sectional association between soda consumption and body mass index in a community-based sample of twins (2017) (3)
- Associations Between Lone Motherhood and Depression: A Co-twin Control Study (2018) (2)
- International Personality Item Pool Big Five Factor Markers (2012) (2)
- A Comparison of Respondents Recommitment Hearings* in Initial and (1991) (2)
- 140. A dynamical systems analysis of psychological distress and genital HSV-2 infection in humans (2012) (1)
- Introduction to a Festschrift for John Loehlin (2014) (1)
- The pillars of health: influence of multiple lifestyle behaviors on body mass index and depressive symptoms in adult twins (2022) (1)
- Inter: Action and Play. (2006) (1)
- Psychoanalysis and Schizophrenia (1988) (1)
- Entity Focus: Applied Genetic Science at Different Levels (2020) (1)
- Neuropsychological Functioning and Brain Imaging (1989) (1)
- The it strikes back. (2010) (1)
- The Social Science Blues. (2019) (1)
- Simulated nonlinear genetic and environmental dynamics of complex traits. (2022) (1)
- Applying Biometric Growth Curve Models to Developmental Synchronies in Cognitive Development: The Louisville Twin Study (2015) (1)
- Genetics and Human Agency: The Philosophy of Behavior Genetics Introduction to the Special Issue (2019) (1)
- Abstract: Psychological Distress and Recurrent Herpetic Disease: A Dynamic Study of Lesion Recurrence and Viral Shedding Episodes in Adults (2015) (1)
- Arsonists at the cathedral. (2015) (1)
- Behavioral and Environmental Modification of the Genetic Influence on Body Mass Index: A Twin Study (2015) (0)
- Walkability, Health Behaviors, And Body Mass Index In Twins: 1677 Board #3 May 31 3 (2018) (0)
- Rereading ‘Biogenetics of Race and Class’ 50 Years Later (2018) (0)
- Gender Differences in the Structure of Marital Quality (2018) (0)
- Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Behavioral Stability and Change in Children 6–36 months of Age Using Louisville Twin Study Data (2015) (0)
- Science, family history, and personal responsibility. (2012) (0)
- Heredity and intelligence. Are intelligence differences hereditarily transmitted? Commentaries. Authors' response (1990) (0)
- Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility. (2023) (0)
- The Costs and Benefits of Lousy Measures of the Environment (2008) (0)
- Interaction between Parental Education and Twin Correlations for Cognitive Ability in a Norwegian Conscript Sample (2017) (0)
- Volumetric Cat Measures and Neuropsychological Performance in Alzheimer's Disease (1984) (0)
- 4.1 The Nature-Nurture Question (2019) (0)
- Consensus and Controversy About Iq (1990) (0)
- Parental and Twin Differences in Personality (2017) (0)
- Multi-Source Assessment of Personality Pathology (2011) (0)
- Defining and Redefining Phenotypes (2020) (0)
- Introduction to a Festschrift for John Loehlin (2014) (0)
- Quasi-causal associations between chronotype and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms: A twin study. (2023) (0)
- Genetics and Human Agency: The Philosophy of Behavior Genetics Introduction to the Special Issue (2019) (0)
- Double Black Diamond (2020) (0)
- Null Hypothesis Significance Testing and the Molecular Genetics of Complex Behaviour (2001) (0)
- Association Between Low Back Pain and Body Mass Index in Adult Twins: An analysis of monozygotic and dizygotic twins of the Washington State Twin Registry. (2020) (0)
- This time I mean it: The nature–nurture debate is over (2022) (0)
- Differential item functioning in the measurement and diagnosis of personality disorders in two populations: (633872013-213) (2003) (0)
- cents who use alcohol are more likely to choose friends who use alcohol (2010) (0)
- Irv Gottesman and the Possibilities for Theoretical Clinical Psychology (2017) (0)
- The Scarr-Rowe Interaction in Complete Seven-Year WISC Data from the Louisville Twin Study: Preliminary Report (2015) (0)
- Genetic and environmental correlates of the nonlinear recovery of cognitive ability in Twins. (2021) (0)
- In keeping with standard practice of epidemiological research (2010) (0)
- Awards Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION (2012) (0)
- Nonlinear Catch-Up Growth in Height, Weight, and Head Circumference from Birth to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Twin Study (2023) (0)
- What kinds of interpersonal problems are unique to avoidant personality disorder when self-report and peer ratings are considered?: (609602010-011) (2010) (0)
- Item response theory analysis of the cognitive ability test in TwinLife (2018) (0)
- 1.7: The Nature-Nurture Question (0)
- CriticalNeedforFamily-Based,Quasi-ExperimentalDesigns inIntegratingGeneticandSocialScienceResearch (2013) (0)
- Socioeconomic status impacts genetic influences on the longitudinal dynamic relationship between temperament and general cognitive ability in childhood: The Louisville Twin Study (2021) (0)
- The Gloomy Prospect Wins: Statistical Significance and Population Stratification in Genome Wide Association Studies (2008) (0)
- Genetic and environmental influences on human height from infancy through adulthood at different levels of parental education (2020) (0)
- So what and what next, review of Ross CA and Pam A (1995). “Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry: Blaming the Body.” New York: John Wiley & Sons (1995) (0)
- Across the great divide: pluralism and the hunt for missing heritability (2019) (0)
- atYPlcally high, because the development of the rat- third, that the construct of "atrophy" which the was a central purpose of their investigation, neurologists or neuroradiologists rate is inadequ- (1984) (0)
- Physician versus humanist. (1988) (0)
- 0177 Sleep and Resilient Coping: A Twin Study (2018) (0)
- PsycCRITIQUES: Arsonists at the Cathedral (0)
- Self-knowledge regarding pathological personality traits: Do we know when others think we are difficult?: (633962013-136) (2006) (0)
- The New Wave in Nurture. (1992) (0)
- Offspring-generation sample : children of the NLSY 79 ( (2010) (0)
- Twin Differentiation of Cognitive Ability Through Phenotype to Environment Transmission: The Louisville Twin Study (2015) (0)
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