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Sources of differences in Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation from adolescence to adulthood: A multi-cohort twin family study.
Behavior Genetics. 55(6), 464-482.
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Paulus, L., Spinath, F. M., & Hahn, E. (2025).
How socioeconomic status affects a child's education–Investigating objective and subjective factors involved in shaping educational success in Germany.
Intelligence, 113, 101970.
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Starr, A., Ruks, M., Giannelis, A., Willoughby, E., Pettersson, O., Pahnke, C. K. L., Maj, C., Andreas, A., Ahlskog, R., Arseneault, L., Fisher, H. L., Forstner, A. J., Kandler, C., McGue, M., Nöthen, M. M., Oskarsson, S., Spinath, F. M., Vrieze, S., Wertz, J., & Stumm, S. von (2025).
Within- and between-family genetic effects on educational achievement vary across countries and ages.
Molecular Psychiatry. Advance online publication.
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Alsalti, T., Hussey, I., Elson, M., & Arslan, R. (2026).
A case study on norming an intelligence test using Regularised Prediction and Poststratification.
Collabra: Psychology, 12(1), 155850.
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Back, M. D., Instinske, J., Rohm, T., Deppe, M., & Kandler, C. (2026).
Narcissism runs in families due to genetics: An extended twin family analysis. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance online publication.
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Baier, T. & Lang, V. (2019).
The Social Stratification of Environmental and Genetic Influences on Education: New Evidence Using a Register-Based Twin Sample. Sociological Science, 6, 143-171.
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Baier, T. & Van Winkle, Z. (2020).
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Baier, T. (2019).
Does sibling and twin similarity in cognitive ability differ by parents’ education?. ZfF–Zeitschrift für Familienforschung/Journal of Family Research, 31(1), 58-82.
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Baier, T., Lang, V., Grätz, M., Barclay, K. J., Conley, D. C., Dawes, C. T., Laidley, T., & Lyngstad, T. H. (2022).
Genetic influences on educational achievement in cross-national perspective. European Sociological Review, 38(6), 959-974.
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Barsegyan, V., Knigge, A., & Maas, I. (2023).
Social origin and political participation: does education compensate for or reinforce family advantages and disadvantages?
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Baum, M. A., Spinath, F. M., & Hahn, E. (2021).
Reexamining the Relationship Between Shift Work and Health Behavior: Do Fluid Intelligence, Socio-economic Status, and Self-control Moderate the Relation?. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1).
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Bayer, S., Blask, K., Gnambs, T., Jansen, M., Maehler, D. B., Meyermann, A., & Neuendorf, C. (2023).
Data for Psychological Research in the Educational Field: Spotlights, Data Infrastructures, and Findings from Research.
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Becker, B. & Weber, M. (2024).
Die Thematisierung von Integration und Inklusion in Kindergartenkonzeptionen.
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Bell, E., Dawes, C., Weinschenk, A., Riemann, R. & Kandler, C. (2020).
Patterns and sources of the association between intelligence, party identification, and political orientations. Intelligence, 81, 101457.
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Bellani, L., Biewen, M., Bonin, H., Boockmann, B., Brändle, T., Helbig, S., Kugler, P., & Pollak, R. (2019).
Lebenslagen in Deutschland. Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung der Bundesregierung. Begleitforschung zum Sechsten Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung.
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A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self‐Esteem. European Journal of Personality, 32(3), 221-232.
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Bozhinoska Lazarova, M., & Spörlein, C. (2025).
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Calais-Ferreira, L., Armstrong, G., Hahn, E., Newton-Howes, G., Foulds, J., Hopper, J. L., Spinath, F. M., Kurdyak, P., & Young, J. T. (2024).
Mental disorders and discrimination: A prospective cohort study of young twin pairs in Germany.
SSM - Population Health, 25, 101622.
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Campbell, A. C., Calais-Ferreira, L., Hahn, E., Spinath, F. M., Hopper, J. L., & Young, J. T. (2024).
Familial confounding of internalising symptoms and obesity in adolescents and young adults; a co-twin analysis.
International Journal of Obesity.
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Deppe, M. & Zapko-Willmes, A. (2023).
Youth Depression Symptoms During COVID-19. A Longitudinal Twin Study on Resilience Factors.
Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 231(2), 126-136.
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Deppe, M., Dißelkamp, C. K., Forstner, A. J., & Kandler, C. (2026).
Patterns and sources of life satisfaction stability and change at different developmental stages.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication.
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Deppe, M., Dißelkamp, C. K. L., Maj, C., Aldisi, R., Nöthen, M. M., Diewald, M., Spinath, F. M., Forstner, A. J., & Kandler, C. (2026).
Personality and well-being are genetically associated: extending previous twin and molecular genetic studies.
European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication.
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Dierker, P., & Diewald, M. (2025).
Compensation or accentuation? How parents from different social backgrounds decide to support their children.
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Dierker, P., Kühn, M., & Mönkediek, B. (2023).
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Diewald, M., Kuznetsov, D., & Liu, Y. (2024).
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Dings, A., & Spinath, F. M. (2024).
Sports club participation impacts life satisfaction in adolescence: A twin study.
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 73, 102639.
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Dings, A., Spinath, F. M. (2021).
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Eichhorn, H., & Mönkediek, B. (2024).
What explains the sex differences in family leisure activities of children? A genetically sensitive analysis with twin data.
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Eifler, E. F., Starr A. & Riemann, R. (2019).
The genetic and environmental effects on school grades in late childhood and adolescence. PLoS ONE 14(12).
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Eifler, E.F., Riemann, R. (2022).
The aetiology of educational attainment: A nuclear twin family study into the genetic and environmental influences on school leaving certificates. British Journal of Educational Psychology, e12478.
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Enck, P., Goebel-Stengel, M., Rieß, O. et al. (2021).
Medizinische Zwillingsforschung in Deutschland. Bundesgesundheitsbl 64, 1298–1306.
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Eves, R., Deppe, M., Kandler, C., Mönkediek, B., & Lemola, S. (2026).
Anthropometric differences between twins at birth and their association with later cognitive performance.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines. Advance online publication.
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Fritzler, N. J., & Wild, E. (2023).
Bedingungen der Inanspruchnahme von Förderangeboten für Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Teilleistungsstörungen und deren Effekt auf die Entwicklung der Lernfreude und des akademischen Selbstkonzepts.
Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht, 2023(2), 93–105.
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Gil-Hernández, C. J. (2019).
Do Well-off Families Compensate for Low Cognitive Ability? Evidence on Social Inequality in Early Schooling from a Twin Study. Sociology of Education, 92(2), 150-175.
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Gottschling, J., Hahn, E., Beam, C. R., Spinath, F. M., Carroll, S. & Turkheimer, E. (2019).
Socioeconomic status amplifies genetic effects in middle childhood in a large German twin sample. Intelligence, 72, 20-27.
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Grätz, M., Lang, V., & Diewald, M. (2021).
The effects of parenting on early adolescents' noncognitive skills: Evidence from a sample of twins in Germany. Acta Sociologica. (online first)
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Hahn, E., Gottschling, J., Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Spengler, M., Kornadt, A. E., Schulz, W., Schunck, R., Baier, T., Krell, K., Lang, V., Lenau, F., Peters, A.-L., Diewald, M., Riemann, R. & Spinath, F. M. (2016).
What Drives the Development of Social Inequality Over the Life Course? The German TwinLife Study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19(6), 659-672.
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Harerimana, N. V., Liu, Y., & Ruks, M. (2025).
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PLOS One, 20(8), e0316416.
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Hassan, T. (2023).
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Playing Video Games.
Media Psychology.
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Hegelund, E.R., Mortensen, E.L., Flensborg-Madsen, T., Dammeyer, J., Christensen, K., McGue, M., Klatzka, C.H., Spinath, F.M., & Johnson, W. (2024).
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Holzwarth, B., & Wolf, C. (2023).
Parental Resources and Heritability as Factors Shaping Children's Health. An Analysis of Twins' Self-rated Health using TwinLife.
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Heritability of time preference: Evidence from German twin data. Kyklos, 71(3), 433-455.
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Hufer, A., Kornadt, A. E., Kandler, C. & Riemann, R. (2020).
Genetic and environmental variation in political orientation in adolescence and early adulthood: A Nuclear Twin Family analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(4), 762–776.
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Hufer-Thamm, A., Starr, A., & Steinmayr, R. (2023).
Is There Evidence for Intelligence-by-Conscientiousness Interaction in the Prediction of Change in School Grades from Age 11 to 15 Years?
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Instinske, J., Schowe, A. M., Czamara, D., Kuznetsov, D., Mönkediek, B., & Kandler, C. (2026).
Epigenetic aging and personality differences: Latent change analyses of twin data.
European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication.
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Johnson, W., Hahn, E., Gottschling, J., Lenau, F., Spinath, F. M. & McGue, M. (2018).
SES-of-Origin and BMI in Youth: Comparing Germany and Minnesota. Behavior genetics, 49(1), 24-48.
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Kandler, C., Instinske, J., & Bell. E. (2025).
Sources of differences in Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation from adolescence to adulthood: A multi-cohort twin family study.
Behavior Genetics. 55(6), 464-482.
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Kandler, C., Riemann, R., & Hufer-Thamm, A. (2022).
IV. Persönlichkeit und Politik. In: Zmerli, S. & Feldman, O. (eds.), Politische Psychologie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium (2nd ed.), Nomos (pp. 61-82).
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Kandler, C., Waaktaar, T., Möttus, R., Riemann, R. & Torgersen, S. (2019).
Unravelling the Interplay Between Genetic and Environmental Contributions in the Unfolding of Personality Differences from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 33(3), 221-244.
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Kandler, C., Zapko-Willmes, A., Richter, J., & Riemann, R. (2021).
Synergistic and dynamic genotype-environment interplays in the development of personality differences. In: J. F. Rauthmann (ed.), The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes, Elsevier Academic Press (pp. 155-181).
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Kim, Y., Gaspard, H., Fleischmann, M., Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (2023).
What Happens With Comparison Processes When “the Other” is Very Similar? Academic Self-Concept Formation in Twins.
Contemporary Educational Psychology, 72, 102138.
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Klassen, L., Eifler, E. F., Hufer, A. & Riemann, R. (2018).
Why Do People Differ in Their Achievement Motivation? A Nuclear Twin Family Study. Primenjena psihologija, 11(4), 433-450.
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Klatzka, C. H., Hahn, E., & Spinath, F. M. (2024).
Differences in experiences of discrimination: an investigation of personality and person based characteristics in a twin difference design.
Current Psychology.
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Klatzka, C. H., Raufeisen, O., Hahn, E., & Spinath, F. M. (2025).
Personality as consequence and antecedent of bullying victimization in adolescence: A cross-lagged panel and genetically informed investigation.
Personality and Individual Differences, 232, 112842.
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Kornadt, A.E., Hufer, A., Kandler, C. & Riemann, R. (2018).
On the genetic and environmental sources of social and political participation in adolescence and early adulthood. PLOS ONE 13(8), 1-16.
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Kottwitz, A., Mönkediek, B., Klatzka, C. H., Hufer-Thamm, A., & Hildebrandt, J. (2023).
Genetic and environmental contributions to the subjective burden of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMC Psychology, 11, 134.
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Kuznetsov, D. V., Liu, Y., Schowe, A. M., Czamara, D., Instinske, I., Pahnke, C. K. L., Nöthen, M. M., Spinath, F. M., Binder, E. B., Diewald, M., Forstner, A. J., Kandler C., & Mönkediek, B. (2025).
Genetic and environmental contributions to epigenetic aging across adolescence and young adulthood.
Clinical Epigenetics, 17, 78.
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Lang, V. & Kottwitz, A. (2020).
The socio-demographic structure of the first wave of the TwinLife panel study: A comparison with the microcensus. methods, data, analyses, 14(1), 28.
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Lang, V., Weigel, L., Mönkediek, B., Baum, M. A., Eichhorn, H., Eifler, E. F., Hahn, E., Hufer, A., Klatzka, C.H., Kottwitz, A., Krell, K., Nikstat, A., Diewald, M., Riemann, R. & Spinath, F. M. (2019).
An Introduction to the German Twin Family Panel (TwinLife). Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 1 (published online ahead of print).
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Lehti, H., Stienstra, K., Baier, T., & Lyngstad, T. H. (2026).
The role of gender in gene by family SES interactions–A twin study across four European countries.
Social Science Research, 137, 103375.
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Liu, Y. (2026).
Family SES Amplifies Genetic Influences on Organized Activity Involvement From Childhood to Young Adulthood: Evidence From the German Twin Family Panel.
Frontiers in Sociology, 11, 1780253.
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Martinschledde, D., Nikstat, A., Kandler, C., Neuner, F., & Iffland, B. (2026). 
Vulnerability to bullying victimization: an investigation of genetic and environmental risk factors in a twin-family study.
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 17(1), 2644107.
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Mönkediek, B. (2020).
Trait-specific testing of the equal environment assumption: The case of school grades and upper secondary school attendance. Journal of Family Research, 1-33.
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Mönkediek, B. (2022).
How variants of tracking affect the role of genes and environment in explaining child attendance at upper secondary school. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 81, 100714.
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Mönkediek, B., & Diewald, M. (2022).
Do academic ability and social background influence each other in shaping educational attainment? The case of the transition to secondary education in Germany. Social Science Research, 101, Article 102625.
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Mönkediek, B., & Diewald, M. (2026).
Does parental involvement in school affect children's school performance?
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Mönkediek, B., Diewald, M., & Lang, V. (2023).
Does social origin modify the heritability of cognitive ability? A close look at the relevance of different parental resources.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 86, 100824.
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Mönkediek, B., Kandler, C., Ruks, M., Weigel, L., Instinske, J., Deppe, M., … Spinath, F. M. (2026).
The German Twin Family Panel TwinLife: Current State and (Epi-)genetically Informative Satellite Projects.
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Mönkediek, B., Lang, V., Weigel, L., Baum, M. A., Eifler, E. F., Hahn, E., Hufer, A., Klatzka, C.H., Kottwitz, A., Krell, K., Nikstat, A., Diewald, M., Riemann, R. & Spinath, F.M. (2019).
The German Twin Family Panel (TwinLife). Twin Research and Human Genetics, 1-8.
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Mönkediek, B., Schober, P., Diewald, M., Eichhorn, H., & Spiess, C. K. (2023).
Does the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care Centers Mitigate the Risk of Externalizing Problems? A Genetic-Sensitive Study of Preschoolers in Germany.
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 1-26.
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Mönkediek, B., Schulz, W., Eichhorn, H. & Diewald, M. (2020).
Is there something special about twin families? A comparison of parenting styles in twin and non-twin families. Social Science Research, 102441.
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Mueller, I. M., Spinath, F. M., Friese, M., & Hahn, E. (2022).
Genetics, parenting, and family functioning—What drives the development of self-control from adolescence to adulthood? Journal of Personality. 
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Nacke, L., & Riemann, R. (2023).
Two sides of the same coin? On the common etiology of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation.
Personality and Individual Differences, 207, 112160. 
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Neugart, M. & Yildirim, S. (2020).
What determines perceived income justice? Evidence from the German TwinLife study. Economics & Human Biology, 36, 100826.
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Neugart, M., Yildirim, S. (2022).
Heritability in friendship networks. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 194, 41-55. (online first)
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Nikstat, A. & Riemann, R. (2020).
On the etiology of internalizing and externalizing problem behavior: A twin-family study. PLOS ONE 15(3).
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Nikstat, A., & Riemann, R. (2023).
Differences in parenting behavior are systematic sources of the non-shared environment for internalizing and externalizing problem behavior.
Behavior Genetics, 53, 25–39. 
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Nikstat, A., Beam, C. R., & Riemann, R. (2023).
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Developmental Psychology.
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Oncioiu, S. I., Korde, A., Klatzka, C. H., & Bowes, L. (2025).
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study.
International Journal of Behavioral Development (Online First).
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Paulus, L., Dißelkamp, C. K., Forstner, A. J., & Spinath, F. M. (2026).
Socioeconomic Differences in Cognitive Ability Across Childhood and Adolescence: An Investigation of Genetic, Individual, and Environmental Factors.
Journal of Intelligence, 14(4), 63.
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Paulus, L., Spinath, F. M., & Hahn, E. (2021).
How do educational inequalities develop? The role of socioeconomic status, cognitive ability, home environment, and self-efficacy along the educational path. Intelligence, 86, 101528.
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Paulus, L., Spinath, F. M., & Hahn, E. (2025).
How socioeconomic status affects a child's education–Investigating objective and subjective factors involved in shaping educational success in Germany.
Intelligence, 113, 101970.
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Rohm, T., Andreas, A., Deppe, M., Eichhorn, H., Instinske, J., Klatzka, C. H., Kottwitz, A., Krell, K., Mönkediek, B., Paulus, L., Piesch, S., Ruks, M., Starr, A., Weigel, L., Diewald, M., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., & Spinath, F. M. (2023).
Data from the German TwinLife Study: Genetic and Social Origins of Educational Predictors, Processes, and Outcomes.
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Ruks, M. & Diewald, M. (2024).
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Investigating the Mechanisms of G × SES Interactions for Education. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 100730.
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Ruks, M. (2023).
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Pathways of Intergenerational Transmission of Advantages during Adolescence: Social Background, Cognitive Ability, and Educational Attainment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46(10), 2194-2214.
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Spinath, F. M. & Bleidorn, W. (2017).
The New Look of Behavioral Genetics in Social Inequality: Gene‐Environment Interplay and Life Chances. Journal of Personality, 85(1), 5-9.
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Spinath, F. M. (2015).
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde (2012)” using genetically informed twin data.
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Starr, A., Riemann, R. (2022).
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Starr, A., Riemann, R. (2022).
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Starr, A., Ruks, M., Giannelis, A., Willoughby, E., Pettersson, O., Pahnke, C. K. L., Maj, C., Andreas, A., Ahlskog, R., Arseneault, L., Fisher, H. L., Forstner, A. J., Kandler, C., McGue, M., Nöthen, M. M., Oskarsson, S., Spinath, F. M., Vrieze, S., Wertz, J., & Stumm, S. von (2025).
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Starr, A., Ruks, M., Weigel, L., & Riemann, R. (2023).
What drives the association between home chaos and school grades over time? A biometric cross-lagged panel approach.
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Stienstra, K., Maas, I., Knigge, A., Schulz, W. (2021).
Resource Compensation or Multiplication? The Interplay between Cognitive Ability and Social Origin in Explaining Educational Attainment. European Sociological Review, 37(2), 186–200.
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Turner, J. D., D'Ambrosio, C., Vögele, C. & Diewald, M. (2020).
Twin Research in the Post-Genomic Era: Dissecting the Pathophysiological Effects of Adversity and the Social Environment. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(9), 3142.
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The gender gap in political interest: Heritability, gendered political socialization, and the enriched environment hypothesis.
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Three essays in labour economics: personality traits and labour market outcomes.
Doktorarbeit, University of Essex.
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Vella, M. (2026).
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Weigel, L., Luo, R., & Liu, Y. (2026).
Does Higher Family SES Attenuate the Association Between Bullying Victimization and Depressive Symptoms? Evidence From the German Twin Family Panel. SSM-Mental Health, 100623.
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