Dirk Pelt
@dirkpelt.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Biological Psychology, VU Amsterdam.
individual differences, wellbeing, personality, social desirability, psychometrics, behavior genetics
individual differences, wellbeing, personality, social desirability, psychometrics, behavior genetics
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Blog post: A Missing Heritability Update. Three legs and other problems. I follow up on the recent excellent post on the subject by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/missing-he...
Missing Heritability Revisited
Following up on Sasha
ericturkheimer.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Blog post: A Missing Heritability Update. Three legs and other problems. I follow up on the recent excellent post on the subject by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/missing-he...
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New blog post: The New Eugenics Companies
(Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection)
(Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection)
The New Eugenics Companies
Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection
ericturkheimer.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New blog post: The New Eugenics Companies
(Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection)
(Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection)
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For the love of god put the sample size in the abstract
July 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
For the love of god put the sample size in the abstract
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We have a new preprint: this work is especially dear to my heart, as it results from the data collection pipeline we established at the Netherlands Twin Register, which enabled us to collect Facebook posts and likes (paid for with plenty of blood, sweat, and tears...)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
July 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We have a new preprint: this work is especially dear to my heart, as it results from the data collection pipeline we established at the Netherlands Twin Register, which enabled us to collect Facebook posts and likes (paid for with plenty of blood, sweat, and tears...)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Help! I recently came across a paper on regression in a structural equation modeling framework where the authors argued that results should be contextualized by assuming different levels of (un)reliability of the variables (or something along those lines). Now I can't find it anymore! Anyone?
January 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Help! I recently came across a paper on regression in a structural equation modeling framework where the authors argued that results should be contextualized by assuming different levels of (un)reliability of the variables (or something along those lines). Now I can't find it anymore! Anyone?
Reposted by Dirk Pelt
NTR BioPsy is now active on BlueSky! Follow us for updates on scientific output from the Netherlands Twin Register and VU Biological Psychology department.
Also follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/nede...
Also follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/nede...
Nederlands Tweelingen Register/BioPsy | LinkedIn
Nederlands Tweelingen Register/BioPsy | 125 followers on LinkedIn. The Netherlands Twin Register is part of the Biological Psychology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Our research aims to exa...
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November 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM
NTR BioPsy is now active on BlueSky! Follow us for updates on scientific output from the Netherlands Twin Register and VU Biological Psychology department.
Also follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/nede...
Also follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/nede...
Thanks for the honor @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social !
Congrats to Dirk Pelt, Inga Schwabe, Meike Bartels for winning the 2023 Editors’ Choice Award in Behavior Genetics! 🏆
Check out their paper, 'Bias in Gene-by-Environment Interaction Effects with Sum Scores: An Application to Well-being Phenotypes,' here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Check out their paper, 'Bias in Gene-by-Environment Interaction Effects with Sum Scores: An Application to Well-being Phenotypes,' here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 18, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Thanks for the honor @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social !