Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

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Jünger, J., Gerlach, T. M., & Penke, L. (2018). No evidence for ovulatory cycle shifts in women’s preferences for men’s behaviors in a pre-registered study. Preprint on PsyArXiv. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/7G3XC

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Kordsmeyer, T., Lohöfener, M., & Penke, L. (2018). Male facial attractiveness, dominance, and health and the interaction between cortisol and testosterone. Preprint on PsyArXiv. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/RPNXJ

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Kordsmeyer, T., & Penke, L. (2017). Effects of male testosterone and its interaction with cortisol on self- and observer-rated personality states in a competitive mating context. Preprint on PsyArXiv. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/WN5DC

86.

Arslan, R. C., Schilling, K. M., Gerlach, T. M., & Penke, L. (in press). Using 26 thousand diary entries to show ovulatory changes in sexual desire and behaviour. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000208

85.

Booth, T., Dykiert, D., Corley, J., Gow, A. J., Morris, Z., Muñoz Maniega, S., Royle, N. A., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Starr, J. M., Penke, L., Bastin, M. E., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (in press). Reaction time variability and brain white matter integrity. Neuropsychology.
The 2nd file contains supplementary details published online.

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Gerlach, T. M., Arslan, R. C., Schultze, T., Reinhard, S.K., & Penke, L. (in press). Predictive validity and adjustment of ideal partner preferences across the transition into romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000170

83.

Hill, W. D., Arslan, R. C., Xia, C., Luciano, M., Amador, C., Navarro, P., Hayward, C., Nagy, R., Porteous, D., McIntosh, A. M., Deary, I. J., Haley, C., & Penke, L. (in press). Genomic analysis of family data reveals additional genetic effects on intelligence and personality. Molecular Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1038/s41380-017-0005-1
David Hill, Ruben Arslan and Charley Xia share the first authorship.

82.

Mitjans, M., Seidel, J., Begemann, M., Bockhop, F., Moya-Higueras, J., Bansal, V., Wesolowski, J., Ibáñez, M., Kovacevic, F., Duvar, O., Fananas, L., Wolf, H.-U., Ortet-Fabregat, G., Zwanzger, P., Klein, V., Lange, I., Tänzer, A., Dudeck, M., Penke, L., Tebartz van Elst, L., Bittner, R., Schmidmeier, R., Freese, R., Müller-Isberner, R., Wiltfang, J., Bliesener, T., Bonn, S., Poustka, L., Mueller, J., Arias, B., Ehrenreich, H. (in press). Violent aggression predicted by multiple pre-adult environmental hits. Molecular Psychiatry. DOI:
10.1038/s41380-018-0043-3

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Arslan, R. C., Willführ, K. P., Frans, E. M., Verweij, K. J. H., Bürkner, P. C., Myrskylä, M., Voland, E., Almqvist, C., Zietsch, B. P., & Penke, L. (2018). Relaxed selection and mutation accumulation are best studied empirically: Reply to Woodley of Menie et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285, 20180092. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0092

80.

Jünger, J., Kordsmeyer, T., Gerlach, T. M., & Penke, L. (2018). Fertile women evaluate male bodies as more attractive, regardless of masculinity. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 412-423. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.03.007

79.

Jünger, J., Motta-Mena, N. V., Cardenas, R., Bailey, D., Rosenfield, K. A., Schild, C., Penke, L., & Puts, D. A. (2018). Do women's preferences for masculine voices shift across the ovulatory cycle? Hormones and Behavior, 106, 122-134.
Lars Penke and David Puts share the senior authorship.

78.

Leckelt, M., Wetzel, E., Gerlach, T. M., Ackerman, R.A., Miller, J. D., Chopik, W. J., Penke, L., Geukes, K., Küfner, C.P., Hutteman, R., Richter, R., Renner, K. H., Allroggen, M., Brecheen, C., Campbell, W. K., Grossmann, I., & Back, M. D. (2018). Validation of the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire short scale (NARQ-S) in convenience and representative samples. Psychological Assessment, 30, 86-96. DOI: 10.1037/pas0000433

77.

Kordsmeyer, T., Hunt, J., Puts, D. A., Ostner, J., & Penke, L. (2018). The relative importance of intra- and intersexual selection on human male sexually dimorphic traits. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 424-436. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.03.008

76.

Arslan, R. C., von Borell, C. J., Ostner, J., & Penke, L. (2017). Negative results are needed to show the specific value of a cultural explanation for g: A commentary on Burkart et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e198. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X16001588

75.

Arslan R. C., Willführ K. P., Frans E. M., Verweij K. J. H., Bürkner P. C., Myrskylä M., Voland E., Almqvist C., Zietsch B. P., & Penke L. (2017). Older fathers’ children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284, 20171562. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1562

74.

Baranski, E., Gardiner, G., Guillaume, E., Aveyard, M., Bastian, B., Bronin, I., Ivanova, C., Cheng, J. T., De Kock, F.S., Denissen, J. J. A., Gallardo-Pujol, D., Halama, P., Han, G. Q., Bae, J., Moon, J., Hong, R. Y., Hřebíčková, M., Graf, S., Izdebski, P., Lundmann, L., Penke, L., Perugini, M., Costantini, G., Rauthmann, J., Ziegler, M., Realo, A., Elme L., Sato, T., Kawamoto, S., Szarota, P., Tracy, J. L., van Aken, M. A., Yang, Y., & Funder, D. C. (2017). Comparisons of daily behavior across 21 countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 252-266.

73.

Kordsmeyer, T. L., & Penke, L. (2017). The association of three indicators of developmental instability with mating success in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38, 704-713.

72.

Schmitt, D. P., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Alves, I. C. B., Anderson, C.A., Angelini, A. L., ... Penke, L., ... Zupančič, A. (2017). Narcissism and the strategic pursuit of short-term mating: Universal links across 11 world regions of the International Sexuality Description Project-2. Psychological Topics, 26, 89-137.

71.

Hill, W. D., Davies, G., Harris, S. E., Hagenaars, S. P., The neuroCHARGE Cognitive Working group, Liewald, D. C., Penke, L., Gale, C. R., & Deary, I. J. (2016). Molecular genetic aetiology of general cognitive function is enriched in evolutionarily conserved regions. Translational Psychiatry, 6, e980. DOI: 10.1038/tp.2016.246

70.

Guillaume, E., Baranski, E., Todd, E., Bastian, B., Bronin, I., Ivanova, C., Cheng, J.T., de Kock, F.S., Denissen, J.J.A., Gallardo-Pujol, D., Halama, Pl, Han, G.Q., Bae, J., Moon, J., Hong, R.Y., Hřebíčková, M., Graf, S., Izdebski, P., Lundmann, L., Penke, L., Perugini, M., Costantini, G., Rauthmann, J., Ziegler, M., Realo, A., Elme, L., Sato, T., Kawamoto, S., Szarota, P., Tracy, J.L., van Aken, M.A.G., Yang, Y., & Funder, D.C. (2016). The world at 7: Comparing the experience of situations across 20 countries. Journal of Personality, 84, 493-509. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12176

69.

Kandler, C., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., Spinath, F. M., Borkenau, P., & Penke, L. (2016). The nature of creativity: The roles of genetic factors, personality traits, cognitive abilities, and environmental sources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, 230-249. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000087

68.

Penke, L., & Jokela, M. (2016). The evolutionary genetics of personality revisited. Current Opinion in Psychology, 7, 104-109. DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.08.021

67.

Schröder-Abé, M., Rentzsch, K., Asendorpf, J. B., & Penke, L. (2016). Good enough for an affair: Self-enhancement of attractiveness, interest in potential mates, and popularity as a mate. European Journal of Personality, 30, 12-18. DOI: 10.1002/per.2029

66.

Arslan, R. C., & Penke, L. (2015). Zeroing in on the genetics of intelligence. Journal of Intelligence, 3, 41-45. DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence3020041.

65.

Pietschnig, J., Penke, L., Wicherts, J. M., Zeiler, M., & Voracek, M. (2015). Meta-analysis of associations between human brain volume and intelligence differences: How strong are they and what do they mean? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 57, 411-432. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.09.017

64.

Aribisala, B. S., Royle, N. A., Muñoz Maniega, S., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Murray, C., Penke, L., Gow, A., Starr, J. M., Bastin, M. E., Deary, I. J., & Wardlaw, J. M. (2014). Quantitative multi-modal MRI of the hippocampus and cognitive ability in community-dwelling older subjects. Cortex, 53, 34-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.12.012

63.

Aribisala, B. S., Royle, N. A., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Murray, C., Penke, L., Gow, A., Muñoz Maniega, S., Starr, J. M., Bastin, M. E., Deary, I. J., & Wardlaw, J. M. (2014). Potential effect of skull thickening on the associations between cognition and brain atrophy in ageing. Age and Ageing, 43, 712-716. DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afu070
The 2nd file contains supplementary details published online.

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Arslan, R. C., Penke, L., Johnson, W., Iacono, W. G., & McGue, M. (2014). The effect of paternal age on offspring intelligence and personality when controlling for paternal trait level. PLoS One, 9, e90097. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090097

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Booth, T, Mõttus, R., Corley, J., Gow, A. J., Henderson, R. D., Muñoz Maniega, S. M., Murray, C., Royle, N. A., Sprooten, E., Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Bastin, M. E., Penke, L., Starr, J. M., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2014). Personality, health and brain integrity: The Lothian Birth Cohort Study 1936. Health Psychology, 33, 1477-1486. DOI: 10.1037/hea0000012

60.

Karama, S., Bastin, M. E., Murray, C., Royle, N. A., Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Gow, A. J., Corley, J., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Lewis, J. D., Rousseau, M.-E., Lepage, C., Fonov, V., Louis Collins, D. L., Booth, T., Rioux, P., Sherif, T. Adalat, R., Starr, J. M., Evans, A. C., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2014). Childhood IQ explains associations between IQ and brain cortical thickness in old age. Molecular Psychiatry, 19, 555-559. DOI: 10.1038/mp.2013.64

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Marioni, R. E., Penke, L., Davies, G., Huffman, J. E., Hayward, C., & Deary, I. J. (2014). The total burden of rare, non-synonymous exome genetic variants is not associated with childhood or late-life cognitive ability. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 281, 20140117. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0117
Riccardo Marioni and Lars Penke contributed equally to this work and thus share the first authorship.
The 2nd file contains supplementary details published online.

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Valentine, K. A., Li, N. P., Penke, L., & Perrett, D. I. (2014). Judging a man by the width of his face: The role of facial ratios and dominance in mate choice at speed-dating events. Psychological Science, 25, 806-811. DOI: 10.1177/0956797613511823

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Booth, T., Bastin, M. E., Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Murray, C., Royle, N. A., Gow, A. J., Corley, J., Henderson, R. D., Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Starr, J. M., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2013). Brain white matter tract integrity and cognitive abilities in community-dwelling older people: The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Neuropsychology, 27, 595-607. DOI: 10.1037/a0033354.

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Denissen, J. J. A., Wood, D., Penke, L., & van Aken, M. A. G. (2013). Self-regulation underlies temperament and personality: An integrative developmental framework. Child Development Perspectives, 7, 255-260. DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12050
The 2nd file contains supplementary details published online.

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Hope, D., Bates, T. C., Penke, L., Gow, A. J., Starr, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2013). Symmetry of the face in old age reflects childhood social status. Economics and Human Biology, 11, 236-244. DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2011.06.006

54.

Hutteman, R., Bleidorn, W., Penke, L., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2013). It takes two: A longitudinal dyadic study on predictors of fertility outcomes. Journal of Personality, 81, 487-498. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12006
Received the Pairfam Best Paper Award 2015.

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Lefevre, C. E., Lewis, G. J., Perrett, D. I., & Penke, L. (2013). Telling facial metrics: Facial width is associated with testosterone levels in men. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34, 273-279. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.03.005

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Lehmann, R., Denissen, J. J. A., Allemand, M., & Penke, L. (2013). Age and gender differences in motivational manifestations of the Big Five from age 16 to 60. Developmental Psychology, 43, 365-383. DOI: 10.1037/a0028277

51.

Lyall, D. M., Lopez, L. M., Bastin, M. E., Muñoz Maniega, S., Penke, L. , Valdés Hernández, M. C., Royle, N. A., Starr, J. M., Porteous, D. J., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2013). ADRB2, brain white matter integrity and cognitive ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Behavior Genetics, 43, 13-23. DOI: 10.1007/s10519-012-9570-x

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Royle, N. A., Booth, T., Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Penke, L., Murray, C., Gow, A. J., Muñoz Maniega, S., Starr, J. M., Bastin, M. E., Deary, I. J, & Wardlaw, J. M. (2013). Estimated maximal and current brain volume predict cognitive ability in old age. Neurobiology of Aging, 34, 2726-2733. DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.05.015

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Valdes Hernandez, M., Booth, T., Murray, C., Gow, A. J., Penke, L., Morris, Z., Munoz Maniega, S., Royle, N., Aribisala, B., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J., & Wardlaw, J. M. (2013). Brain white matter damage in aging and cognitive ability in youth and old age. Neurobiology of Aging, 34, 2740-2747. DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.05.032

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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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Denissen, J. J. A., Wood, D., & Penke, L. (2012). Passing to the functionalists instead of passing them by. A commentary on Cramer et al. European Journal of Personality, 26, 436-437. DOI: 10.1002/per.1870

46.

Dykiert, D., Bates, T. C., Gow, A. J., Penke, L., Starr, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2012). Predicting mortality from human faces. Psychosomatic Medicine, 74, 560-566. DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318259c33f

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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. (2012). A genome-wide search for genetic influences and biological pathways related to the brain's white matter integrity. Neurobiology of Aging, 33, 1847.e1-1847.e14. DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.02.003

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Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Bastin, M. E., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Murray, C., Royle, N. A., Starr, J. M., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2012). Brain-wide white matter tract integrity is associated with information processing speed and general intelligence (Image). Molecular Psychiatry, 17, 955. doi:10.1038/mp.2012.127

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Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Bastin, M. E., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Murray, C., Royle, N. A., Starr, J. M., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2012). Brain white matter tract integrity as a neural foundation for general intelligence. Molecular Psychiatry, 17, 1026-1030. DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.66
The 2nd file contains supplementary details published online.

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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.
The Word file contains supplementary details published online.

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Place, S. S., Todd, P. M., Zhuang, J., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2012). Judging romantic interest of others from thin slices is a cross-cultural ability. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 547-550. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.02.001

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Valdés Hernández, M. C., Royle, N. A., Jackson, M. R., Muñoz Maniega, S., Penke, L., Bastin, M. E., Deary, I. J., & Wardlaw, J. M. (2012). Color fusion of magnetic resonance images improves intracranial volume measurement in studies of aging. Open Journal of Radiology, 2, 1-9. DOI: 10.4236/ojrad.2011

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Verweij, K. J. H., Yang, J., Lahti, J, Veijola, J., Hintsanen, M., Pulkki-Råback, L., Heinonen, K., Pouta, A., Pesonen, A. K., Widen, E., Taanila, A., Isohanni, M., Miettunen, J., Palotie, A., Penke, L., Service, S. K., Heath, A. C., Montgomery, G.W., Raitakari, O., Kähönen, M., Viikari, J., Räikkönen, K., Eriksson, J. G., Keltikangas-Järvinen, L., Lehtimäki, T., Martin, N.G., Järvelin, M. R., Visscher, P. M., Keller, M. C., & Zietsch, B. P. (2012). Maintenance of genetic variation in human personality: Testing evolutionary models by estimating heritability due to common causal variants and investigating the effect of distant inbreeding. Evolution, 66, 3238-3251. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01679.x
Karin Verweij and Brendan Zietsch contributed equally to this work.
The 2nd file contains supplementary details published online.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Penke, L. (2011). Editorial: Personality and social relationships. European Journal of Personality, 25, 87-89. DOI: 10.1002/per.819

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
This study received worldwide media coverage: Overview

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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

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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

14.

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.

13.

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

12.

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

11.

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.

10.

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

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

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

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).

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), 2008 (593 downloads) and 2014 (1,551). Continuously among the Top 5 most downloaded articles in EJP since 2007.
Steven Pinker discussed this article in the New York Times on January 11, 2009.

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

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.

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

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

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

Book chapters

13.	Penke, L. (in press). Revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory. In R. Milhausen, J. Sakaluk, C. M. Davis, W. L. Yarber & T. D. Fisher (Eds.): Handbook of sexuality-related measures (4th Ed.). New York: Routledge.
12.	Arslan, R. C. & Penke, L. (2015). Evolutionary genetics. In D. M. Buss (Ed.): Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology Vol. 2: Integrations (2nd ed.) (pp. 1047-1066). New York: Wiley.
11.	Buss, D. M., & Penke, L. (2015). Evolutionary personality psychology. In M. Mikulincer, P. R. Shaver, M. L. Cooper & R. J. Larsen (Eds.): APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 4: Personality Processes and Individual Differences (pp. 3-29). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. DOI: 10.1037/14343-001
10.	Johnson, W., & Penke, L. (2014). Genetics of social behavior. In B. Gawronski & G. Bodenhausen (Eds.): Theory and Explanation in Social Psychology (pp. 205-223). New York: Guilford Press.
9.	Penke, L. (2014). SOI-R - Revidiertes soziosexuelles Orientierungsinventar. In D. Richter, E. Brähler & B. Strauß (Eds.): Diagnostische Verfahren in der Sexualwissenschaft (pp. 178-184). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
8.	Lenton, A. P., Penke, L., Todd, P. M., & Fasolo, B. (2013). 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 (pp. 433-459). New York: Oxford University Press.
7.	Penke, L. (2013). What we want. In L. Bormans (Ed.): The World Book of Love (pp. 94-95). Tielt: Lannoo Publishers.
6.	Penke, L. (2013). SOI-R - Revidiertes soziosexuelles Orientierungsinventar. In C. J. Kemper, E. Brähler & M. Zenger (Eds.): Psychologische und sozialwissenschaftliche Kurzskalen (pp. 283-291). Berlin: Medizinisch-Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft.
5.	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.
4.	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
3.	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.
2.	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.
1.	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.

Other publications

Penke, L. (2013). Gibt es ein Gen für Intelligenz? [Is there a gene for intelligence?]. Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 2/13, 62-70.

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.

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.