The Generality of Personality Heritability: Big-Five Trait Heritability Predicts Response Time to Trait Items

Bo Ekehammar; Nazar Akrami; Lars Erik Hedlund; Kimio Yoshimura; Yutaka Ono; Juko Ando; Shinji Yamagata

doi:10.1027/1614-0001/a000029

The Generality of Personality Heritability: Big-Five Trait Heritability Predicts Response Time to Trait Items

Bo Ekehammar, Nazar Akrami, Lars Erik Hedlund, Kimio Yoshimura, Yutaka Ono, Juko Ando, Shinji Yamagata

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The present research examined the relationship between heritability and response time for the Big Five personality facets in three samples of adults and adolescents. We predicted that the larger the heritability of a facet the faster is the response to the items of that facet. In support of our predictions, the results showed that heritability and response time were indeed negatively correlated. The effect size of the relationship was small but systematic and statistically significant across all samples. The findings underline the generality of personality heritability and highlight the link between heritability and behavioral indicators. The potential usefulness of both heritability estimates and response time in research on personality is discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	209-214
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Individual Differences
Volume	31
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000029
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

Big Five
Heritability
Personality
Response time

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Psychology(all)
Biological Psychiatry

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