Lars Penke

 

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Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Hope, D., Bates, T., Penke, L., Gow, A. J., Starr, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (in press). Symmetry of the face in old age reflects childhood social status. Economics and Human Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2011.06.006 Download File
Lehmann, R., Denissen, J. J. A., Allemand, M., & Penke, L. (in press). Age and gender differences in motivational manifestations of the Big Five from age 16 to 60. Developmental Psychology. Download File
Lopez, L., Bastin, M. E., Muñoz Maniega, S., Penke, L., Davies, G., Christoforou, A., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Royal, N. A., Tenesa, A., Starr, J. M., Porteous, D. J., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (in press). A genome-wide search for genetic influences and biological pathways related to the brain's white matter integrity. Neurobiology of Aging.

Place, S. S., Todd, P. M., Zhuang, J., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (in press). Judging romantic interest of others from thin slices is a cross-cultural ability. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Valdés Hernández, M. C., Royle, N. A., Jackson, M. R., Muñoz Maniega, S., Penke, L., Bastin, M. E., Deary, I. J., & Wardlaw, J. M. (in press). Color fusion of magnetic resonance images improves intracranial volume measurement in studies of aging. Open Journal of Radiology. DOI: 10.4236/ojrad.2011 Download File
Bowers, R. I., Place, S. S., Todd, P. M., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2012). Generalization in mate-choice copying in humans. Behavioral Ecology, 23, 112-124. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr164
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Penke, L., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Muñoz Maniega, S., Gow, A. J., Murray, C., Starr, J. M., Bastin, M. E., Deary, I. J., & Wardlaw, J. M. (2012). Brain iron deposits are associated with general cognitive ability and cognitive aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 33, 510-517. DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.04.032
Lars Penke and Maria Valdés Hernández contributed equally to this work and thus share the first authorship. Ian Deary and Joanna Wardlaw share the last authorship.
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Allerhand, M., Ooi, E. T., Starr, R. J., Alcorn, M., Penke, L., Drost, E., MacNee, W., Deary, I. J., Starr, J. M. (2011). Skin ageing and oxidative stress in a narrow-age cohort of older adults. European Geriatric Medicine, 2, 140-144. DOI: 10.1016/j.eurger.2011.04.009 Download File
Asendorpf, J. B., Penke, L., & Back, M. D. (2011). From dating to mating and relating: Predictors of initial and long-term outcomes of speed-dating in a community sample. European Journal of Personality, 25, 16-30. DOI: 10.1002/per.768
Jens Asendorpf and Lars Penke contributed equally to this work and thus share the first authorship. 		Download File
Back, M. D., Baumert, A., Denissen, J. J. A., Hartung, F.-M., Penke, L., Schmukle, S. C., Schönbrodt, F., Schröder-Abé, M., Vollmann, M., Wagner, J., & Wrzus, C. (2011). PERSOC: A unified framework for understanding the dynamic interplay of personality and social relationships. European Journal of Personality, 25, 90-107. DOI: 10.1002/per.811 Download File
Back, M. D., Penke, L., Schmukle, S. C., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2011). Knowing your own mate value: Sex-specific personality effects on the accuracy of expected mate choices. Psychological Science, 22, 984–989. DOI: 10.1177/0956797611414725. Download File
Back, M. D., Penke, L., Schmukle, S. C., Sachse, K., Borkenau, P., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2011). Why mate choices are not as reciprocal as we assume: The role of personality, flirting, and physical attractiveness. European Journal of Personality, 25, 120-132. DOI: 10.1002/per.806 Download File
Hope, D., Bates, T., Penke, L., Gow, A. J., Starr, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2011). Fluctuating asymmetry and personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 49-52. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.08.020 Download File
Johnson, W., Penke, L., & Spinath, F. M. (2011). Heritability in the era of molecular genetics: Some thoughts for understanding genetic influences on behavioral traits (target article). European Journal of Personality, 25, 254-266. DOI: 10.1002/per.836 Download File
Johnson, W., Penke, L., & Spinath, F. M. (2011). More thoughts for understanding heritability: What it is and what it is not (authors' response). European Journal of Personality, 25, 287-294. DOI: 10.1002/per.835 Download File
Penke, L. (2011). Editorial: Personality and social relationships. European Journal of Personality, 25, 87-89. DOI: 10.1002/per.819 Download File

Penke, L., Borsboom, D., Johnson, W., Kievit, R. A., Ploeger, A., & Wicherts, J. M. (2011). Evolutionary psychology and intelligence research cannot be integrated the way Kanazawa (2010) suggests. American Psychologist, 66, 916-917. DOI: 10.1037/a0024626
This commentary was originally also co-authored by Jens B. Asendorpf, Timothy C. Bates, David M. Buss, Daniel Cervone, Ian J. Deary, Jaap J. A. Denissen, Conor V. Dolan, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Steven W. Gangestad, David C. Geary, Vittorio Girotto, Samuel D. Gosling, Linda S. Gottfredson, Rex E. Jung, Matthew C. Keller, Michelle Luciano, Richard McElreath, Geoffrey F. Miller, Daniel Nettle, Aljoscha Neubauer, Steven Pinker, Richard D. Roberts, Frank M. Spinath, Marieke E. Timmerman, Francis Tuerlinckx, Han L. J. van der Maas, Oliver Wilhelm, and Alexander Weiss. We would like to thank them for their helpful comments and contributions. Their names had to be removed from the published version on demand of the editorial board of the American Psychologist, who made publication conditional on a greatly reduced number of authors and did not allow their acknowledgement in any form.

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Deary, I. J., Penke, L., & Johnson, W. (2010). The neuroscience of human intelligence differences. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 201-211. DOI: 10.1038/nrn2793
All three authors contributed equally to this work and thus share the first authorship. 		Download File
Johnson, W., & Penke, L. (2010). The network perspective will help, but is comorbidity the question? A commentary on Cramer et al.. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 162-163. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X10000634 Download File
Neberich, W., Penke, L., Lehnart, J., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2010). Family of origin, age at menarche, and reproductive strategies: A test of four evolutionary-developmental models. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7, 153–177. DOI: 10.1080/17405620801928029 Download File
Nettle, D., & Penke, L. (2010). Personality: Bridging the literatures from human psychology and behavioural ecology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365, 4043-4050. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0061 Download File
Penke, L. & Deary, I. J. (2010). Some guidelines for structural equation modelling in cognitive neuroscience: The case of Charlton et al.'s study on white matter integrity and cognitive ageing. Neurobiology of Aging, 31, 1656–1660. DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.10.019 Download File
Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Houlihan, L. M., Murray, C., Gow, A. J., Clayden, J. D., Bastin, M. E., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2010). White matter integrity in the splenium of the corpus callosum is related to successful cognitive aging and partly mediates the protective effect of an ancestral polymorphism in ADRB2. Behavior Genetics, 40, 146-156. DOI: 10.1007/s10519-009-9318-4 Download File
Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Murray, C., Gow, A. J., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Clayden, J. D., Starr, J. M., Wardlaw, J. M., Bastin, M. E., & Deary, I. J. (2010). A general factor of brain white matter integrity predicts information processing speed in healthy older people. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 7569-7574. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1553-10.2010 Download File
Place, S. S., Todd, P. M., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2010). Humans show mate copying after observing real mate choices. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 320-325. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.02.001 Download File
Deary, I. J., Corley, J., Gow, A. J., Harris, S. E., Houlihan, L. M., Marioni, R. E., Penke, L., Rafnsson, S. B., & Starr, J. M. (2009). Age-associated cognitive decline. British Medical Bulletin, 92, 135-152. DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldp033 Download File
Penke, L. (2009). An ethological perspective on how to define and study behaviour. A commentary on Furr. European Journal of Personality, 23, 421-423. DOI: 10.1002/per.725 Download File
Penke, L. (2009). Adaptive developmental plasticity might not contribute much to the adaptiveness of reproductive strategies. A commentary on M. Del Giudice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 38-39. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X0900020X Download File
Penke, L., Bates, T. C., Gow, A. J., Pattie, A., Starr, J. M., Jones, B. C., Perrett, D. I., & Deary, I. J. (2009). Symmetric faces are a sign of successful cognitive aging. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 429-437. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.06.001
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Place, S. S., Todd, P. M., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2009). The ability to judge the romantic interest of others. Psychological Science, 20, 22-26. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02248.x Download File
Denissen, J. J. A., Butalid, L., Penke, L., & van Aken, M. A. G. (2008). The effects of weather on daily mood: A multilevel approach. Emotion, 8, 662-667. DOI: 10.1037/a0013497 Download File
Denissen, J. J. A., & Penke, L. (2008). Individual reaction norms underlying the Five Factor Model of personality: First steps towards a theory-based conceptual framework. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1285–1302. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.04.002
The items of the Five Individual Reaction Norms Inventory (FIRNI) and supplementary material can be found here. 		Download File
Denissen, J. J. A., & Penke, L. (2008). Neuroticism predicts reactions to cues of social inclusion. European Journal of Personality, 22, 497-517. DOI: 10.1002/per.682 Download File
Denissen, J. J. A., Penke, L., Schmitt, D. P., & van Aken, M. A. G. (2008). Self-esteem reactions to social interactions: Evidence for sociometer mechanisms across days, people, and nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 181-196. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.95.1.181 Download File
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2008). Beyond global sociosexual orientations: A more differentiated look at sociosexuality and its effects on courtship and romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1113-1135. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.95.5.1113
The items of the revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI-R) can be downloaded here. 		Download File
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2008). Evidence for conditional sex differences in emotional but not in sexual jealousy at the automatic level of cognitive processing. European Journal of Personality, 22, 3-30. DOI: 10.1002/per.654 Download File
Penke, L., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2008). Sex differences and lifestyle-dependent shifts in the attunement of self-esteem to self-perceived mate value: Hints to an adaptive mechanism? Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1123-1129. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.02.003 Download File
Swami, V., Miller, R., Furnham, A., Penke, L., & Tovée, M. J. (2008). The influence of men's sexual strategies on perceptions of women's bodily attractiveness, health and fertility. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 98-107. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.07.017 Download File
Miller, G. F., & Penke, L. (2007). The evolution of human intelligence and the coefficient of additive genetic variance in human brain size. Intelligence, 32, 97-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2006.08.008
Science reported about this study in 2006 (Vol. 312, p. 1867).		 Download File Download File
Penke, L., Denissen, J. J. A., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The evolutionary genetics of personality (target article). European Journal of Personality, 21, 549-587. DOI: 10.1002/per.629
Most downloaded article of the European Journal of Personality via Wiley InterScience in 2007 (609 downloads) and 2008 (593 downloads).
Steven Pinker discussed this article in the New York Times on January 11, 2009.		 Download File
Penke, L., Denissen, J. J. A., & Miller, G. F. (2007). Evolution, genes, and inter-disciplinary personality research (authors' reply). European Journal of Personality, 21, 639-665. DOI: 10.1002/per.657 Download File
Todd, P. M., Penke, L., Fasolo, B., & Lenton, A. P. (2007). Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 104, 15011-15016. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705290104
On rank 7 of the most-read articles on www.PNAS.org in September 2007.		 Download File
DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., Little, A. C., Boothroyd, L. G., Perrett, D. I., Penton-Voak, I. S., Cooper, P. A., Penke, L., Feinberg, D. R., & Tiddeman, B. P. (2006). Correlated preferences for facial masculinity and ideal or actual partner's masculinity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 273, 1355-1360. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3445 Download File
Penke, L., Eichstaedt, J., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2006). Single attribute implicit association tests (SA-IAT) for the assessment of unipolar constructs: The case of sociosexuality. Experimental Psychology, 53, 283-291. DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.53.4.283 Download File
Asendorpf, J. B., & Penke, L. (2005). A mature evolutionary psychology demands careful conclusions about sex differences. A commentary on D. P. Schmitt. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 275-276. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X05220058 Download File

 

Book chapters

Lenton, A. P., Penke, L., Todd, P. M., & Fasolo, B. (in press). The heart has its reasons: Social rationality in mate choice . In R. Hertwig, U. Hoffrage, & the ABC Research Group (Eds.), Simple heuristics in a social world. New York: Oxford University Press. Download File
Penke, L. (2011). Revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory. In T. D. Fisher, C. M. Davis, W. L. Yarber & S. L. Davis (Eds.): Handbook of sexuality-related measures (3rd Ed.) (pp. 622-625). New York: Routledge. Download File
Penke, L. (2010). Bridging the gap between modern evolutionary psychology and the study of individual differences. In D. M. Buss & P. H. Hawley (Eds.): The evolution of personality and individual differences (pp. 243-279). New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372090.003.0009
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Penke, L., Denissen, J. J. A., & Miller, G. F. (2008). Die Evolutionsgenetik der Persönlichkeit [The evolutionary genetics of personality]. In F. J. Neyer & F. M. Spinath (Eds.), Anlage und Umwelt [Nature and nurture] (pp. 27-59). Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius. Download File
Penke, L., Todd, P. M., Lenton, A., & Fasolo, B. (2007). How self-assessments can guide human mating decisions. In G. Geher & G. F. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system (pp. 37-75). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Download File
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2006). Evolvierte implizite Repräsentationen von Soziosexualität [Evolved implicit representations of sociosexuality]. In E. Witte (Ed.), Evolutionäre Psychologie und automatische Prozesse [Evolutionary psychology and automatic processes] (pp. 114-131). Lengerich: Pabst. Download File

 

Theses

Penke, L. (2011). Neuroscientific approaches to general intelligence and cognitive ageing. Habilitation thesis, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Penke, L. (2007). Approaches to an evolutionary personality psychology: The case of sociosexuality. Dissertation thesis, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Penke, L. (2003). Creativity: Theories, prediction, and etiology. Unpublished diploma thesis, University of Bielefeld.

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Lopez, L., Bastin, M. E., Muñoz Maniega, S., Penke, L., Davies, G., Christoforou, A., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Royal, N. A., Tenesa, A., Starr, J. M., Porteous, D. J., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (vorläufig angenommen). A genome-wide search for genetic influences and biological pathways related to the brain's white matter integrity. Neurobiology of Aging.