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Professor Ian Deary and colleagues have used a unique and rich data set of lifetime cognitive measures to explore the contribution of genetics to differences in cognitive ageing.

Genetic contributions to stability and change in intelligence from childhood to old age. Ian J. Deary, Jian Yang, Gail Davies, Sarah E. Harris, Albert Tenesa et al.Nature 482,212–215(09 February 2012)

Professor Philip Corr has set up a personality resources website

Its resources can be accessed at the following web address (http://www.ueapsychology.net/personality-laboratory-pg75.html) or directly via the downloads below

Available Psychological Tests (click here to download the document).

Ideas for Undergraduate Student Projects (click here to download the document).

Personality Psychologists Websites(click here to download the document).

RST-PQ (click here to download the document).

The Journal of Aging Research will publish a special issue on Lifestyle Factors and Cognitive Ageing in 2012.

If you would like to contribute get in touch with the editor asap as the deadline for submissions is 16 March.

A facial expression for anxiety has been discovered by a research team that includes some members of BSPID.

Perkins, A. M., Inchley-Mort, S. L., Pickering, A. D., Corr, P. J., & Burgess, A. P. (2012, January 9). A Facial Expression for Anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0026825

Personality is of Central Concern to Understand Health: Towards a Theoretical Model for Health Psychology.

Eamonn Ferguson (In Press) at Health Psychology Review

Personality and Economics: Overview and Proposed Framework.

Eamonn Ferguson, James J. Heckman and Philip Corr (2011) Personality and Individual Differences (Special Issue: Personality and Economics), 51, 201–209