Lars Penke
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Biological Faculty, Faculty Member
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Research Interests: Marketing, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, Communication, and 26 morePsychometrics, Individuality, Culture, Love, Assortative Mating, Adolescent, Intention, Social behavior, Humans, Personality Assessment Inventory, Sex Difference, Female, Male, Sexual Behavior, Courtship, Young Adult, Attitude, Data Collection, Fantasy, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Middle Aged, Romantic Relationship, Adult, Social Behavior, Sexual Partners, and Libido
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The two evolutionary psychological hypotheses that men react more jealous than women to sexual infidelity and women react more jealous than men to emotional infidelity are currently controversial because of apparently inconsistent... more
The two evolutionary psychological hypotheses that men react more jealous than women to sexual infidelity and women react more jealous than men to emotional infidelity are currently controversial because of apparently inconsistent results. We suggest that these inconsistencies can be resolved when the two hypotheses are evaluated separately and when the underlying cognitive processes are considered. We studied jealousy with forced-choice decisions and emotion ratings in a general population sample of 284 adults aged 20–30 years using six infidelity dilemmas and recordings of reaction times. The sex difference for emotional jealousy existed for decisions under cognitive constraint, was also evident in the decision speed, increased for faster decisions, and was stronger for participants with lower education. No evidence for a sex difference in sexual jealousy was found. Our results support the view of a specific female sensitivity to emotional infidelity that canalizes the development of an adaptive sex difference in emotional jealousy conditional to the sociocultural environment. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, Communication, Psychometrics, and 16 moreIndividuality, Adolescent, Social behavior, Humans, Personality Assessment Inventory, Implicit Association Test, Female, Male, Sexual Behavior, Biological evolution, Arousal, Adult, Sex Factors, Reproducibility of Results, Social Behavior, and Psychological Models
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Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, Communication, Psychometrics, and 16 moreIndividuality, Adolescent, Social behavior, Humans, Personality Assessment Inventory, Implicit Association Test, Female, Male, Sexual Behavior, Biological evolution, Arousal, Adult, Sex Factors, Reproducibility of Results, Social Behavior, and Psychological Models
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Most commentaries welcomed an evolutionary genetic approach to personality, but several raised concerns about our integrative model. In response, we clarify the scientific status of evolutionary genetic theory and explain the plausibility... more
Most commentaries welcomed an evolutionary genetic approach to personality, but several raised concerns about our integrative model. In response, we clarify the scientific status of evolutionary genetic theory and explain the plausibility and value of our evolutionary genetic model of personality, despite some shortcomings with the currently available theories and data. We also have a closer look at mate choice for personality traits, point to promising ways to assess evolutionarily relevant environmental factors and defend higher-order personality domains and the g-factor as the best units for evolutionary genetic analyses. Finally, we discuss which extensions of and alternatives to our model appear most fruitful, and end with a call for more inter-disciplinary personality research grounded in evolutionary theory. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Research Interests: Psychology and European
Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Emotion, Personality, Individuality, and 22 moreClimate, Adolescent, Fatigue, Multivariate Analysis, Affect, Wind Power, Humans, Negative Affect, Multilevel modelling, Female, Male, Young Adult, Weather, Aged, Middle Aged, Diary Study, Positive Affect, Adult, Five Factor Model, Multilevel Analysis, Individual Difference, and Personality Trait
Research Interests: Marketing, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Personality, Individuality, and 20 moreSocial Interaction, Family, Prediction, Social Inclusion, Social Identification, Motivation, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Relationship Quality, Humans, Female, Male, Interpersonal Relations, Social Environment, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Self Concept, Adult, Boolean Satisfiability, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Friends, and Self Esteem
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Research Interests: Intelligence, Cognition, Aging, MRI, Calcium, and 26 moreNeurobiology, Cognitive Aging, Brain, Humans, Child, Image fusion, Old Age, Female, Male, Magnetic Resonance, Iron, Clinical Sciences, Aged, Longitudinal Studies, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Function, Basal ganglia, Neurobiology of Aging, Cognitive Decline, Birth Cohort, Multispectral Images, Neurosciences, General Population, Cohort Studies, Magnetic resonance image, and General cognitive ability
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Research Interests: Genetics, Brain Imaging, Cognition, Aging, Life Style, and 21 moreDiet, Medicine, Executive Function, Cognitive Aging, British medical history, Processing Speed, Humans, Age, Effect size, Old Age, Risk factors, Health Status, General Health, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Function, Biological Process, Cardiovascular Diseases, Risk Factors, Cognitive Decline, Individual Difference, and Cognition disorders
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Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Anthropology, Human Evolution, Life history, and 15 moreFluctuating asymmetry, Evolution and Human Behavior, Cognitive Aging, Information Processing, Sex Difference, Old Age, Young Adult, Life Expectancy, Hypothesis Generation, General Intelligence, Directional Asymmetry, Cognitive Decline, Birth Cohort, Individual Difference, and Developmental Stability
It has recently been reported that the evolutionarily ancestral alleles of two functional polymorphisms in the β2-adrenergic receptor gene (ADRB2) were related to higher cognitive ability in the 70 year old participants of the Lothian... more
It has recently been reported that the evolutionarily ancestral alleles of two functional polymorphisms in the β2-adrenergic receptor gene (ADRB2) were related to higher cognitive ability in the 70 year old participants of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936). One emerging important factor in cognitive aging is the integrity of white matter tracts in the brain. Here, we used diffusion tensor MRI-based tractography to assess the integrity of eight white matter tracts in a subsample of the LBC1936. Higher integrity of the splenium of the corpus callosum predicted better cognitive ability in old age, even after controlling for IQ at age 11. Also, the ancestral allele of one ADRB2 SNP was associated with both splenium integrity and better cognitive aging. While the effects of the SNP and splenium integrity on cognitive aging were largely independent, there was some evidence for a partial mediation effect of ADRB2 status via splenium integrity.