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
- Psyc 598 section BGJ: Behavior Genetics Journal Club
Additional Campus Affiliations
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
External Links
I am recruiting new Ph.D. students for Fall 2022. I'm looking for someone(s) interested in behavior genetics, online data collection, open science, and anti-racism. No experience required.
Recent Publications
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
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