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The University of Edinburgh
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology
Department of Psychology
7 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JZ
United Kingdom
| Room | F1 |
| Phone | +44-(0)131-6508482 |
| Fax | +44-(0)131-6511771 |
Consultation hours: by arrangement
Homepage at the University of EdinburghEvolutionary significance of individual differences, especially of general intelligence, personality traits, sociosexuality, and attractiveness; cognitive aging; white matter integrity and cognitive abilities; imaging genetics; mate choice, romantic relationships, and sexuality; evolutionary psychology; life history theory; behavior genetics; hormones and behavior; online research; speed-dating as a research design
Evolutionary genetics of interindividual differences
Biological foundations of intelligence and cognitive aging in the Disconnected Mind Project, based on the Lothian Birth Cohort studies
Mate choice in the context of speed-dating
International Sexuality Description Project, 2nd Wave (ISDP-2)
Online research (PSYTESTS, FaceResearch)
2010:
Infrastructur Grant for establishing a symmetry lab (PI, with Prof. Dr. Timothy C. Bates and Prof. Dr. Ian J. Deary), £76,000.
2009:
British Academy Overseas Conference Grant part-funded attendance at ISSID 2009 (International Society for the Study of Individual Differences), in Evanston, USA, £500.
2007:
Award for the best publication in the European Journal of Personality based on a Ph.D. or Master/Diploma thesis for "The evolutionary genetics of personality", £250.
2006:
Travel grant from the Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment section of the German Society for Psychology, funding attendance of the summer school "Hierarchical Linear Modeling" in Syros, Greece.
| Asendorpf, J. B., Penke, L., & Back, M. D. (in press). From dating to mating and relating: Predictors of initial and long-term outcomes of speed-dating in a community sample. European Journal of Personality. Jens Asendorpf and Lars Penke contributed equally to this work and thus share the first authorship. |
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| Johnson, W., & Penke, L. (in press). The network perspective will help, but is comorbidity the question? A commentary on Cramer et al.. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. | |
| Nettle, D., & Penke, L. (in press). Personality: Bridging the literatures from human psychology and behavioural ecology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. | |
| 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. (in press). Brain iron deposits are associated with general cognitive ability and cognitive aging. Neurobiology of Aging. 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., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (in press). Humans show mate copying after observing real mate choices. Evolution and Human Behavior. | |
| Deary, I. J., Penke, L., & Johnson, W. (2010). The neuroscience of human intelligence differences. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 201-211. All three authors contributed equally to this work and thus share the first authorship. |
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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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Penke, L. (2009). An ethological perspective on how to define and study behaviour. A commentary on Furr. European Journal of Personality, 23, 421-423. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. The items of the Five Individual Reaction Norms Inventory (FIRNI) and supplementary material can be found here. |
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| Denissen, J. J. A., & Penke, L. (2008). Neuroticism predicts reactions to cues of social inclusion. European Journal of Personality, 22, 497-517. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. The items of the revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI-R) can be downloaded here. |
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| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. Science reported about this study in 2006 (Vol. 312, p. 1867). |
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| Penke, L., Denissen, J. J. A., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The evolutionary genetics of personality (target article). European Journal of Personality, 21, 549-587. 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. |
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| 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. | |
| 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. On rank 7 of the most-read articles on www.PNAS.org in September 2007. |
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| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Penke, L. (2010). 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Penke, L. (2007). Approaches to an evolutionary personality psychology: The case of sociosexuality. Dissertation, Humboldt University of Berlin. | |
| Penke, L. (2003). Creativity: Theories, prediction, and etiology. Unpublished diploma thesis, University of Bielefeld. | |
Summer 2010: Invited guest seminar "The Genetics and Neuroscience of Intelligence Differences Across the Lifespan", given on 15 July 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, DE
Winter 2009/10: MSc lecture & workshops "Evolutionary Psychology"
Winter 2009/10: MSc lecture "Personality and Social Relationships: A Social Relations Model Approach" in the series “Current Topics in Psychology”
Summer 2009 External examiner of 1 diploma thesis, Humboldt University of Berlin, DE
Winter 2008/09: MSc seminar "Psychology Methodology 1: Factor Analysis"
Summer 2005: Undergraduate seminar "Personality and sexuality"
02/2004-05/2007: Supervision 5 diploma theses, 12 empirical study projects, and 2 internships
10/2001-02/2003: Supervision of 14 undergraduate empirical practicals
Various interviews and reports about my research in television (SAT1, RTL, 3SAT, WDR3, HR3, RBB, Discovery Channel Deutschland) and radio broadcasts (e.g., WDR 5, SWR, Berliner Rundfunk, RBB Radio 1, ORF [AT], FFH, Radio Energy Berlin), as well as in print and online media (e.g., New York Times (USA), New Scientist (UK), Daily Telegraph (UK), Zeit Wissen, Welt, Süddeutsche online, Planet Interview, Brigitte, Emotion, dpa, various daily newspapers and popular journals).
Worldwide media coverage on Penke et al., 2009, Evolution and Human Behavior: Overview
Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Bastin, M. E., Gow, A. J., Murray, C., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2010). Brain white matter integrity and lifetime cognitive ageing. Talk given at the Aging & Cognition conference, Dortmund, DE, October 14-16, 2010.
Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Royle, N. A., Bastin, M. E., Gow, A. J., Murray, C., Deary, I. J., Wardlaw, J. M. (2010). Associations between white matter lesion intensity and cognitive abilities in youth and old age in The Disconnected Mind Study. Talk given at the 5th Conference of Epidemiological Longitudinal Studies in Europe (CELSE), Paphos, Cyprus, October 13-15, 2010.
Lehmann, R., Allemand, M., Denissen, J. J. A, & Penke, L. (2010). Age and gender differences in motivational manifestations of the Big Five from age 16 to 60. Talk given at the 15th European Conference of Personality (ECP), Brno, Czech Republic, July 20-24, 2010.
Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Bastin, M. E., Gow, A. J., Murray, C., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2010). The role of brain white matter integrity in intelligence and lifetime cognitive ageing. Talk given at the 15th European Conference of Personality (ECP), Brno, Czech Republic, July 20-24, 2010.
Place, S. S., Penke, L., & Todd, P. M. (2010). Observers are sensitive to quality of information when deciding to mate copy. Talk given at the 22th annual annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Eugene, Oregon, USA, June 16-20, 2010.
Penke, L. (2010). Genetische und neurowissenschaftliche Grundlagen von Intelligenzunterschieden über die Lebensspanne. [Genetic and neuroscientific foundations of intelligence differences across the lifespan.] Invited guest talk at the Psychological Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, DE, June 9, 2010.
Muñoz Maniega, S., Penke, L., Valdés Hernández, M. C., Murray, C., Royle, N. A., Gow, A. J., Clayden, J. D., Starr, J. M., Bastin, M. E., Deary, I. J., & Wardlaw, J. M. (2010). Multiparametric study of white matter integrity and cognition in old age. Talk given at the ISMRM-ESMRMB Joint Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1-7, 2010.
Valdés Hernandez, M., Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Murray, C., Royle, N., Gow, A. J., Starr, J. M., Bastin, M. E., Deary, I.J., & Wardlaw, J. M. (2010). White matter lesion intensity and cognitive ability: relationships in youth and old age. Talk given at the ISMRM-ESMRMB Joint Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Schweden, May 1-7, 2010.
Penke, L. (2010). The evolutionary psychology of individual differences. Invited guest talk at the Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, NL, April 7, 2010.
Penke, L. (2010). The evolutionary psychology of individual differences. Invited keynote talk at the 11th annual meeting of the group "Menschliches Verhalten unter evolutionärer Perspektive" (MVE), Berlin, DE, March 22-24, 2010.
Penke, L. (2010). The evolutionary psychology of individual differences. Invited guest talk at the Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle, UK, February 24, 2010.
Penke, L. (2010). The evolutionary psychology of individual differences. Invited guest talk at the Department of Psychology, Brunel University, London, UK, February 3, 2010.
Penke, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Bastin, M. E., Gow, A. J., Murray, C., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2009). The role of brain white matter integrity in intelligence and lifetime cognitive ageing. Talk given at the annual conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), Madrid, Spain, December 17-19, 2009.
Place, S. S., Todd, P. M., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2009). Humans copy social information in mate choice decisions. Poster auf dem jährlichen Treffen der Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM), Boston, Ma., USA, 21.-23. November 2009.
Alcorn, M., Ooi, E. T., Starr, R. J., Gow, A. J., Pattie, A., Penke, L., Deary, I. J., & Starr, J. M. (2009). Skin ageing in a narrow-age cohort of older adults: Scottish women are more wrinkly. Talk given at the joint meeting of the British Geriatrics Society Scottish Branch and the Irish Society of Physicians in Geriatric Medicine, Galway, Ireland, November 13-14, 2009.
Lehmann, R., Denissen, J. J. A., Allemand, M., & Penke, L. (2009). Age-differences in motivational behavioural manifestation of the Big Five from age 16 to 60. Poster auf der 8. LIFE Spring Academy, Ann Arbor, Mi., USA, Oktober 2009.
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. (2009). Zusammenhänge zwischen Intelligenzabbau im Alter, der Integrität des Splenium Corpus Callosum und dem ß2-adrenergischem Rezeptorgen (ADRB2): Ein Gen-Gehirn-Kognitionslink mit evolutionärem Hintergrund? [Relationships between age-related intelligence decline, integrity of the splenium corpus callosum, and the ß2-andrenergic receptor gene (ADRB2): A gene-brain-cognition link with evolutionary background?]. Talk given at the 10th Fachgruppentagung Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD), Landau, DE, September 28-30, 2009.
Penke, L., Bastin, M. E., Muñoz Maniega, S., Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Gow, A. J., Murray, C., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2009). The role of brain white matter integrity in intelligence and lifetime cognitive ageing. Talk given at the annual Research into Ageing Grantholders' Conference, Birmingham, UK, September 2-3, 2009.
Penke, L., Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Muñoz Maniega, S., Gow, A. J., Murray, C., Bastin, M. E., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2009). Subcortical iron depositions as a biomarker of general cognitive ability and age-related cognitive decline. Poster presented at the annual Research into Ageing Grantholders' Conference, Birmingham, UK, September 2-3, 2009.
Muñoz Maniega, S., Penke, L., Clayden, J. D., Murray, C., Bastin, M. E., Gow, A. J., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2009). Tract-specific white matter integrity and cognitive ability in youth and old age in the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1936. Poster presented at the annual Research into Ageing Grantholders' Conference, Birmingham, UK, September 2-3, 2009.
Pradel, J., Fetchenhauer, D., & Penke, L. (2009). Für die Ewigkeit oder nur für eine Nacht? – „Prosozialität“ als Partnerwahlkriterium [Forever or for one night only? Prosociality as a mate choice criterion]. Talk given at the 12th Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie (FGSP), Luxembourg, September 2-4, 2009.
Beckage, N., Todd, P. M., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2009). Testing sequential patterns in human mate choice using speed-dating. Talk given at the annual mmeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Groningen, NL, July 30-August 1, 2009.
Penke, L., Bastin, M. E., Muñoz Maniega, S., Valdes Hernandez, M. C., Gow, A. J., Murray, C., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2009). The role of neuronal white matter integrity in mental speed, intelligence, and lifetime cognitive aging. Talk given at the biannual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Evanston, Il., USA, July 18-22, 2009.
Penke, L., Back, M. D., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2009). Effects of long-term and short-term relationship interests on actual mate choices in the Berlin Speed Dating Study. Talk given at the annual conference of the Association for Research in Personality (ARP), Evanston, Il., USA, July 16-18, 2009.
Bowers, R. I., Todd, P. M., Place, S. S., & Penke, L. (2009). Trait-based versus individual-based mate choice copying in humans. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Fullerton, Ca., USA, May 27-31, 2009.
Place, S. S., Todd, P. M., & Penke, L. (2009). Humans show mate copying after observing real mate choices. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Fullerton, Ca., USA, May 27-31, 2009.
Pradel, J., Fetchenhauer, D., & Penke, L. (2009). Partner in life or one-night stand? How reproductive strategies might have shaped the evolution of altruism. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Fullerton, Ca., USA, May 27-31, 2009.
Muñoz Maniega, S., Penke, L., Clayden, J. D., Murray, C., Bastin, M. E., Gow, A. J., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2009). Tract-specific white matter integrity and cognitive ability in youth and old age. e-Poster presented at the 17th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Honolulu, USA, April 18-22, 2009.
Penke, L. (2009). Effects of long-term and short-term relationship interests on actual mate choices in the Berlin Speed Dating Study. Poster presented at the 4th annual conference of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA), St. Andrews, UK, April 6-8, 2009.
Penke, L. (2009). Effects of long-term and short-term relationship interests on actual mate choices in the Berlin Speed Dating Study. Invited talk given at the Department of Psychology, University of Bristol, UK, January 30, 2009.
Penke, L. (2009). Interrelations between the integrity of white matter tracts and a gene-brain-cognitive ageing link. Talk given at a cross-centre meeting, University of Bristol, UK, January 29, 2009.
Penke, L. (2008). Facial symmetry as a sign of succesful cognitive ageing in men. Talk given at the Psychology Research Day 2008, Edinburgh, UK, December 9, 2008.
Penke, L., Bastin, M. E., Muñoz Maniega, S., Valdes Hernandez, M., Gow, A., Murray, C., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2008). White matter integrity and cognitive ability in the LBC1936: Preliminary results. Poster presented at the Psychology Research Day 2008, Edinburgh, UK, December 9, 2008.
Penke, L. (2008). Persönlichkeit und echtes Sozialverhalten. [Personality and actual social behaviour.] Talk given at the 1st meeting of the scientific network Personality and Social Relationships, Chemnitz, DE, November 2, 2008.
Deary, I. J., Horsburgh, K., McCulloch, J., Morris, R. G. M., Starr, J. M., Wardlaw, J., Bastin, M., Wood, E., Coltman, R., Corley, J., Gliddon, C., Gow, A., Henderson, R., Houlihan, L., Muñoz Maniega, S., Murray, C., Penke, L., Spain, A., & Valdes Hernandez, M. (2008). The Disconnected Mind. Poster presented at the opening ceremony of the MRC Center for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK, September 11, 2008.
Penke, L., Bastin, M. E., Muñoz Maniega, S., Valdes Hernandez, M., Gow, A., Murray, C., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2008). White matter integrity and cognitive ability in the LBC1936: Preliminary results. Poster presented at the opening ceremony of the MRC Center for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh, UK, September 11, 2008.
Bastin, M. E., Penke, L., Murray, C., Muñoz Maniega, S., Valdes Hernandez, M., Gow, A., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2008). White matter integrity and cognitive ability in youth and old age: Interim results from the LBC1936 study. Talk given at the 14th annual meeting of the British Chapter of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (BC-ISMRM), Newcastle, UK, September 3-5, 2008.
Penke, L. (2008). White matter integrity and cognitive ability: Preliminary results from the LBC1936 study. Talk given at the Disconnected Mind Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, August 19, 2008.
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2008). Speed dating as a paradigm for the study of initial romantic attraction, mate choice, and courtship behavior. Talk given at the 24th International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Berlin, DE, July 20-25, 2008.
Denissen, J., Penke, L., Schmitt, D., & van Aken, M. A. G. (2008). Self-esteem reactions to social interactions: Evidence for sociometer mechanisms across days, people, and nations. Talk given at the 14th European Conference of Personality (ECP), Tartu, Estonia, July 16-20, 2008.
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2008). Speed dating as a paradigm for the study of initial romantic attraction, mate choice, and courtship behaviour across potential partners. Talk given at the 14th European Conference of Personality (ECP), Tartu, Estonia, July 16-20, 2008.
Penke, L. (2008). Symmetric faces are a sign of successful cognitive aging. Talk given at the Joint Face Lab Meeting, St. Andrews, UK, June 13, 2008.
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2007). Eine differenziertere Betrachtung der Soziosexualität und ihrer Auswirkungen auf Partnerwerbung und Partnerschaft [A more differentiated look at sociosexuality and its effects on courtship and romantic relationships]. Talk given at the 9th Fachgruppentagung Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD), Vienna, AT, September 24-26, 2007.
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2007). Beyond global sociosexual orientations: A more differentiated look at sociosexuality and its effects on courtship and romantic relationships. Poster presented at the biannual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Giessen, DE, July 21-27, 2007.
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2007). The revised SOI: A more differentiated look at sociosexuality and its effects on courtship and romantic relationships. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Williamsburg, Va., USA, May 30-June 3, 2007.
Penke, L., Denissen, J. J. A., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The evolutionary genetics of personality traits and abilities. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Williamsburg, Va., USA, May 30-June 3, 2007.
Place, S., Todd, P. M., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2007). Observer ratings of human mating interactions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Williamsburg, Va., USA, May 30-June 3, 2007.
Todd, P. M., Tramm, C., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2007). How well can people judge another's courtship interest in them? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Williamsburg, Va., USA, May 30-June 3, 2007.
Penke, L. (2007). Die Evolutionsgenetik der Persönlichkeit [The evolutionary genetics of personality]. Talk given at the 8th annual meeting of the group "Menschliches Verhalten unter evolutionärer Perspektive" (MVE), Landau, DE, March 29-31, 2007.
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2006). Verhaltenskorrelate impliziter und expliziter Soziosexualität [Behavioral correlates of implicit and explicit sociosexuality]. Talk given at the 45th conference of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs), Nürnberg, DE, September 17-21, 2006.
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2006). Whose choice? Possible causes of unrestricted sociosexual behavior. Talk given at the 13th European Conference of Personality (ECP), Athens, Greece, July 22-26, 2006.
Asendorpf, J. B., & Penke, L. (2006). Sex differences in emotional and sexual jealousy: A multi-method investigation. Talk given at the 13th European Conference of Personality (ECP), Athens, Greece, July 22-26, 2006.
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2006). Dissecting the pathway from good condition to quantitative mating success in men: Independent roles for fitness indicators, sociosexuality, extraversion, and current relationship involvement. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Philadelphia, Penn., USA, June 7-11, 2006.
Miller, G. F., & Penke, L. (2006). Surprisingly low additive genetic variance in human brain size. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Philadelphia, Penn., USA, June 7-11, 2006.
Penke, L. (2006). The genesis of quantitative mating success in men. Poster presented at the 4th LIFE Spring Academy, Berlin, DE, May 15-19, 2006.
Penke, L., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2006). Partnerwahlpräferenzen als soziale Ausgrenzungs-drohung: Wie selbstbezogene Kognitionen die Wahl von Reproduktionsstrategien bei Männern beeinflussen können [Mate choice preferences as threats of social exclusion: How self-related cognitions can influence reproductive strategy decisions in men]. Talk given at the 7th annual meeting of the group "Menschliches Verhalten unter evolutionärer Perspektive" (MVE), Cologne, DE, March 29-31, 2006.
Denissen, J. J. A., & Penke, L. (2006). Die individuellen Reaktionsnormen hinter dem Fünf-Faktoren-Modell der Persönlichkeit: Vorschlag eines evolutionstheoretisch begründeten Konzeptionsrahmens [The individual reaction norms behind the five factor model of personality: Proposal of an evolutionary conceptual framework]. Talk given at the 7th annual meeting of the group "Menschliches Verhalten unter evolutionärer Perspektive" (MVE), Cologne, DE, March 29-31, 2006.
Neberich, W., Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2006). Pubertäres Timing, Bindung und Sexualität [Pubertal timing, attachment, and sexuality]. Talk given at the 7th annual meeting of the group "Menschliches Verhalten unter evolutionärer Perspektive" (MVE), Cologne, DE, March 29-31, 2006.
Penke, L. (2005). Evolved psychological mating mechanisms in context: A closer look at sociosexual orientations. Talk given at the 4th LIFE Fall Academy, Ann Arbor, Mich., USA, October 14-18, 2005.
Penke, L., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2005). Zur Notwendigkeit der differenzierteren Betrachtung von Soziosexualität und der Erfassung ihrer Facetten [Towards the necessity of a more differentiated perspective on sociosexuality and the assessment of its facets]. Talk given at the 8th Fachgruppentagung Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD), Marburg, DE, September 26-27, 2005.
Denissen, J. J. A., & Penke, L. (2005). Die Big Five Persönlichkeitsfaktoren als strategische Adaptationen: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen und erste psychometrische Ergebnisse [The Big Five personality factors as strategic adaptations: Conceptual considerations and first psychometric results]. Poster presented at the 8th Fachgruppentagung Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD), Marburg, DE, September 26-27, 2005.
Asendorpf, J. B., & Penke, L. (2005). Single target implicit association tests: Sometimes better than IATs. Talk given at the 9th European Conference of Psychology (ECP), Granada, Spain, July 3-8, 2005.
Penke, L., Eichstaedt, J., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2005). Measuring implicit sociosexual orientations with a single target IAT. Talk given at the 5th Workshop on Implicit Representations and Personality (IRP), Berlin, DE, June 24-25, 2005.
Penke, L. (2005). Sociosexual orientation and its facets: Evolutionary and developmental considerations. Talk given at the 3rd LIFE Spring Academy, Charlottesville, Va., USA, May 8-12, 2005.
Penke, L. (2005). Wie können Männer sich soziosexuell unrestriktiver verhalten als Frauen, wenn zum Sex doch immer zwei gehören? Eine konstruktive Kritik am Soziosexuellen Orientierungsinventar (SOI) [How can men act in a sociosexually more unrestrictive manner than women if it takes two for sex? A constructive critique of the Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI)]. Talk given at the 6th annual meeting of the group "Menschliches Verhalten unter evolutionärer Perspektive" (MVE), Osnabrück, DE, April 4-6, 2005.
Penke, L., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2005). Evolvierte implizite Repräsentationen von Soziosexualität [Evolved implicit representations of sociosexuality]. Talk given at the 21th Hamburg Symposium for the Methodology of Social Psychology, Hamburg, DE, January 13-15, 2005.
Penke, L., Spinath, F. M., Angleitner, A., Borkenau, P., & Riemann, R. (2004). Was braucht man, um kreativ zu sein? Phänotypische und verhaltensgenetische Analysen zur Notwendigkeit breiter Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und allgemeiner Intelligenz [What does it take to be creative? Phenotypical and behavioral genetic analyses concerning the necessity of broad personality traits and general intelligence]. Talk given at the 44th conference of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs), Göttingen, DE, September 27-30, 2004.
Penke, L. (2004). High genetic variance in general intelligence (g) endophenotypes: Evidence in favor of a fitness indicator interpretation. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Berlin, DE, July 21-25, 2004.
Penke, L. (2004). Die genetischen Grundlagen allgemeiner Intelligenz und ihre evolutionäre Bedeutung [The genetic foundations of general intelligence and its evolutionary significance]. Talk given at the 5th annual meeting of the group "Menschliches Verhalten unter evolutionärer Perspektive" (MVE), Gießen, DE, March 15-17, 2004.
Penke, L., Spinath, F. M., Angleitner, A., Borkenau, P., & Riemann, R. (2003). Beziehung von Persönlichkeits- und Intelligenzmaßen zur allgemeinen Kreativitätsdisposition [Relation of personality and intelligence measures to a general disposition towards creativity]. Poster presented at the 7th Fachgruppentagung Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD), Halle, DE, September 29-30, 2003.
Penke, L. (2003). The modular mind and the g factor of intelligence. Talk given at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, DE, May 2003.