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Thomas H. Kleppestø

@thomaskleppesto.bsky.social
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Associate professor of psychology at NTNU. Father. Clinician. Interested in individual differences, evolution, and the growth of knowledge.

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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
More educated people tend to be lower in Right-Wing Authoritarianism. But why? Causal effects of education are hard to distinguish from confounding by family environments and genes.
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
More educated people tend to be lower in Right-Wing Authoritarianism. But why? Causal effects of education are hard to distinguish from confounding by family environments and genes.
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We have a new paper out in EHB proposing a theory on how human intelligence evolved, led by our talented philosopher-turned-psychology-PhD-candidate @jonathanegeland.bsky.social!
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We have a new paper out in EHB proposing a theory on how human intelligence evolved, led by our talented philosopher-turned-psychology-PhD-candidate @jonathanegeland.bsky.social!
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Jonathan Egeland @jonathanegeland.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In our new Evolution and Human Behavior paper, we examine the social function of uniquely human intelligence 🧠 Give it a read! sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to my coauthors: Leif Kennair and @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
New paper out in Evolution & Human Behavior! Do people agree on what the ideal partner personality looks like, or is it just a reflection of their own traits? And do people care more about politics than the big five? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Nytt essay. Vi reflekterer over hva oppdraget til høyere utdanning bør være i språkmodellens era. www.bi.no/forskning/bu...
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Hvordan påvirker kunstig intelligens læringsutbytte og vurderingsgrunnlag?
Når KI overtar deler av resonneringen, risikerer vi at mye av tenkningen «outsources» og at studentene blir mer passive i egen læring.
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Fartein Ask Torvik @torvik.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Who wants to join us in Oslo to study how health influences educational underperformance? We are hiring PhDs postdocs candidates for our funded project. We will follow children from birth to emerging adulthood, using behavioural genetic methods and large datasets 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...
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Two positions as either PhD or postdoctoral fellow on health determinants of education
Do you want to research how health influences school performance and leads to intergenerational inequality? We have two vacant 3-year positions as a PhD fellow or postdoctoral research fellow in the p...
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Per Helge H. Larsen @phlarsen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"These findings suggest that ideal partner preferences are shaped by one's own traits, especially for political personality, but some traits (e.g., low neuroticism) are broadly preferred across individuals." doi.org/10.1016/j.ev...
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The attractive personality: Like me, but better
People tend to prefer mates who are similar to themselves, yet also desire partners with specific characteristics. The relative importance of assortat…
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
New paper out in Evolution & Human Behavior! Do people agree on what the ideal partner personality looks like, or is it just a reflection of their own traits? And do people care more about politics than the big five? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dr Elsje van Bergen @drelsje.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
👉Behaviour genetics infographics www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👉ADHD, dyslexia & dyscalculia doi.org/10.1177/0956... 👉ADHD runs in families doi.org/10.1017/S003... 👉Education runs in families osf.io/preprints/ps... Hosted warmly at @citystgeorges.bsky.social by Ansgar Endress & Katrina May Dulay 🙏
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Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions - npj Science of Learning
npj Science of Learning - Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions
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Per Helge H. Larsen @phlarsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"Contrary to popular and long-standing accounts of the causes and consequences of attachment styles, we find no evidence that attachment and ideology are jointly grounded in early familial experiences."
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Attachment and Political Personality are Heritable and Distinct Systems, and Both Share Genetics with Interpersonal Trust and Altruism - Behavior Genetics
The attachment and caregiving domains maintain proximity and care-giving behavior between parents and offspring, in a way that has been argued to shape people’s mental models of how relationships work...
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We have a new paper out, led by the great @hfsunde.bsky.social! We find that the correlation between parental income and offspring mental disorders may be partly causal in adolescence (phenotypic transmission), but that it is largely explained by passive genetic transmission in adulthood.
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
For Norwegian followers: Ett utvalg av mine forelesninger om personlighetspsykologi er nå tilgjengelig på YT for studenter og andre personlighetsinteresserte. Her er for eksempel en med biografisk perspektiv med fokus på Darwin & Munch: t.co/DVt5O7Q0ih
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deAMNHpfKKM&list=PL7LQmm1abBNx30wv7_Gb0Yyi2mmRu9K6Z&index=4&ab_channel=Baktanke
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We have a new paper out in Psychological Science. The risk for (any) mental disorder decreases dramatically as cognitive ability increases–even when controlling for within-family variation. Check out lead author @magnusnordmo.bsky.social thread below for details!
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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New paper on family resemblance in school performance! We find that a model with only additive genetics and assortative mating fits the data well, but underestimates the resemblance of close relatives and adoptees, indicating some shared environmental effects. See @eivindy.bsky.social thread!
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Beyond additive genetic effects: Explaining family resemblance in school performance across millions of pairs of Norwegian relatives | PNAS
We investigate the hypothesis that family resemblance on school performance can be fully explained by additive genetic effects and assortative mati...
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