Genetic analysis of cognitive failures (CFQ); A study of Dutch adolescent twins and their parents

A substantial part of the inter-individual variation in everyday cognitive failures in memory, perception and motor control can be attributed to genetic factors. Cognitive failures were assessed with the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (Broadbent, Cooper, FitzGerald and Parkes, 1982) in a large sample of Dutch adolescent twin pairs and their biological parents. The heritability for CFQ scores was around 50 per cent. There was no association between CFQ scores and age or educational level. Both in the parental generation (aged 46 years on average) and in the o€spring generation (aged 17.7 years on average) women had somewhat higher mean CFQ scores than men. There were no sex di€erences in heritabilities. The part of the variance that could not be attributed to genetic factors was best explained by environmental in¯uences unique to the individual. There was no evidence for the in¯uence of shared environment on CFQ scores. CFQ scores of husband and wife were correlated (r ˆ 0.22) and this association was modeled as phenotypic assortment. The correlations between parents and o€spring were somewhat lower than the correlations between dizygotic twins. Under a model with equal heritabilities in parents and o€spring, there was some evidence that the genetic factors that in¯uence cognitive failures in the two generations are partly di€erent. # 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Personality profiles of cultures: aggregate personality traits

Personality profiles of cultures can be operationalized as the mean trait levels of culture members. College students from 51 cultures rated an individual from their country whom they knew well (N = 12, 156). Aggregate scores on Revised NEO Personality Inventory scales generalized across age and gender groups, approximated the individual-level Five-Factor Model, and correlated with aggregate self-report personality scores and other culture-level variables. Results were not attributable to national differences in economic development or to acquiescence. Geographical differences in scale variances and mean levels were replicated, with Europeans and Americans generally scoring higher in Extraversion than Asians and Africans. Findings support the rough scalar equivalence of NEO-PI-R factors and facets across cultures, and suggest that aggregate personality profiles provide insight into cultural differences

Patterns and universals of mate poaching across 53 nations : the effects of sex, culture, and personality on romantically attracting another person’s partner

As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, 16,954 participants from 53 nations were administered an anonymous survey about experiences with romantic attraction. Mate poaching--romantically attracting someone who is already in a relationship--was most common in Southern Europe, South America, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe and was relatively infrequent in Africa, South/Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Evolutionary and social-role hypotheses received empirical support. Men were more likely than women to report having made and succumbed to short-term poaching across all regions, but differences between men and women were often smaller in more gender-egalitarian regions. People who try to steal another's mate possess similar personality traits across all regions, as do those who frequently receive and succumb to the poaching attempts by others. The authors conclude that human mate-poaching experiences are universally linked to sex, culture, and the robust influence of personal dispositions.peer-reviewe

Temperament research: some divergences and similarities

Strelau J, Angleitner A. Temperament research: some divergences and similarities. In: Strelau J, Angleitner A, eds. Explorations in temperament. Perspectives on individual differences. New York: Plenum Pr.; 1991: 1-12

Veränderungen psychomotorischer Koordination im Alter, gemessen durch den Pursuit-Rotor (rotary-pursuit)

Angleitner A. Veränderungen psychomotorischer Koordination im Alter, gemessen durch den Pursuit-Rotor (rotary-pursuit). Zeitschrift für Gerontologie. 1974;7(5):344-354

Health, socioeconomic status and self-perception in the elderly: an application of the interpersonal checklist

Angleitner A. Health, socioeconomic status and self-perception in the elderly: an application of the interpersonal checklist. The international journal of aging and human development. 1978;8(4):293-299.One-hundred and thirty-four men and women in the Bonn Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) sample from sixty-two to eighty-one years of age were tested and re-tested a year later using the Interpersonal Checklist (ICL) to study the effects of health, sex, socioeconomic status and time of self perception. Preliminary item analysis justified the use of the ICL for older people. A multiple analysis of variance for repeated measures with the factors SEX, SES, and TIME yielded two interactions for "rebellious-distrustful" (FG by sex x health) and "self effacing-masochistic" (HI by time x health) and three main-effects for "agressive-sadistic" (DE by sex), "self-effacing-masochistic" (HI by SES) and "docile-dependent" (IK by time)

Faktorenanalytische Untersuchungen zum Konzept der Rigidität

Angleitner A. Faktorenanalytische Untersuchungen zum Konzept der Rigidität. Archiv für Psychologie. 1973;125:73-104

It's what you ask and how you ask it: an itemmetric analysis of personality questionnaires

Angleitner A, John OP, Löhr F-J. It's what you ask and how you ask it: an itemmetric analysis of personality questionnaires. In: Angleitner A, ed. Personality assessment via questionnaires. Berlin [u.a.]: Springer; 1986: 61-107