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
External Links
Dr. Derringer is not recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2021.
Recent Publications
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
Hudson, N. W., Derringer, J., & Briley, D. A. (2019). Do people know how they've changed? A longitudinal investigation of volitional personality change and participants’ retrospective perceptions thereof. Journal of Research in Personality, 83, [103879]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103879
Hudson, N. W., Briley, D. A., Chopik, W. J., & Derringer, J. (2019). You have to follow through: Attaining behavioral change goals predicts volitional personality change. Journal of personality and social psychology, 117(4), 839-857. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000221
23and Me Research Team, eQTLgen Consortium, International Cannabis Consortium, & Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (2019). Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences. Nature Genetics, 51(2), 245-257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0309-3