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Personality and genetics: New developments

The behavioral genetic approach has a long tradition in the field of personality. It may be very useful in development of personality models and understanding the individual differences in broad personality dimensions. On the other hand, it may be useful in our understanding of the etiology of the relationship between personality and other concepts or life-relevant outcomes. This invited symposia is directed to both topics. The first contribution deals with the phenomenon of parallel structure, the finding that covariance structures of personality characteristics are very similar on phenotypic, genetic, and environmental levels, and give us some theoretical explanation for that. The second contribution presents the cross-cultural study of the HEXACO model which is underrepresented in the behavioral genetic literature. The other three contributions are aimed to the role of individual differences in personality and/or intelligence in other important concepts: well-being, mental health, prejudices, and social mobility. The third contribution presents a review of new developments within the intersecting fields of wellbeing, mental health, personality, and genetically informative research, while the fourth is directed to the concept of generalized prejudice, its plausibility on phenotypic and latent genetic/environmental level, and its genetic and environ-mental overlap with personality and intelligence. The fifth and last contribution is directed toward personality, intelligence, and the genetic contribution to the intergenerational, educational, and occupational mobility. It presents a study conducted on the large sample of parents and offspring, it analyzes the circumstances in which offspring move up or down relative to their parents, and it studies the role of personality and intelligence in that process.

behavioral genetic ; personality ; individual differences ; HEXACO

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