Research Interests
- Individual Differences
- Behavior Genetics
- Measurement
- Gene-Environment Interaction
Education
Post Doc, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado
Psychology, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Courses Taught
- Psyc 408: Human Behavior Genetics (offered every Fall)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
External Links
Recent Publications
Bucknor, B. A., & Derringer, J. (2022). Exploring the utility of current polygenic scores in capturing resilience. Psychiatric Genetics, 32(1), 15-24. https://doi.org/10.1097/YPG.0000000000000300
23andMe Research Team, Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, & LifeLines Cohort Study (2022). Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals. Nature Genetics, 54(4), 437-449. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01016-z
Hannikainen, I. R., Hudson, N. W., Chopik, W. J., Briley, D. A., & Derringer, J. (2020). Moral migration: Desires to become more empathic predict changes in moral foundations. Journal of Research in Personality, 88, [104011]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104011
Border, R., Smolen, A., Corley, R. P., Stallings, M. C., Brown, S. A., Conger, R. D., Derringer, J., Donnellan, M. B., Haberstick, B. C., Hewitt, J. K., Hopfer, C., Krauter, K., McQueen, M. B., Wall, T. L., Keller, M. C., & Evans, L. M. (2019). Imputation of behavioral candidate gene repeat variants in 486,551 publicly-available UK Biobank individuals. European Journal of Human Genetics, 27(6), 963-969. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-019-0349-x
Briley, D. A., Livengood, J., Derringer, J., Tucker-Drob, E. M., Fraley, R. C., & Roberts, B. W. (2019). Interpreting Behavior Genetic Models: Seven Developmental Processes to Understand. Behavior genetics, 49(2), 196-210. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-018-9939-6