Ruben Arslan: 2015 John B. Carroll Award for Methodology

Ruben Arslan
Biosketch:
Ruben was born in Aachen, Germany, and studied psychology at Humboldt University Berlin. He is now working toward a PhD at the Georg August University Göttingen in the Biological Personality Lab with Lars Penke.ruben_arslan_head_2015
His research interests have an evolutionary angle on individual differences in common. He has studied paternal age effects on intelligence, personality, mortality and fertility. He hopes to gain an understanding of mutational influences on individual differences and by extension the genetic architecture of traits such as intelligence.
Representative publications:
Preprint: Arslan, R. C., Willführ, K. P., Frans, E., Verweij, K. J. H., Myrskylä, M., Voland, E., … Penke, L. (2016). Older fathers’ children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations. bioRxiv, 042788. doi:10.1101/042788
Arslan, R. C., & Penke, L. (2015). Zeroing in on the Genetics of Intelligence. Journal of Intelligence, 3, 41-45. doi:10.3390/jintelligence3020041.
Arslan, R. C., Penke, L., Johnson, W., Iacono, W. G., & McGue, M. (2014). The effect of paternal age on offspring intelligence and personality when controlling for parental trait levels. PLoS ONE, 9, e90097. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090097
Presentation reference:
Arslan, R.C., Willführ, K.P., Frans, E., Myrskylä, M., Almqvist, C., & Penke, L. Paternal age as an indicator of new mutations: Children of older fathers have lower evolutionary fitness, but not lower intelligence. Talk at the annual conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), Albuquerque, NM, USA, September 18–20, 2015.