David T. Lykken

21.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
139 papers, 15.0k citations indexed

About

David T. Lykken is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David T. Lykken has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 15.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 35 papers in Social Psychology and 28 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in David T. Lykken's work include Cognitive Abilities and Testing (26 papers), Deception detection and forensic psychology (18 papers) and Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (14 papers). David T. Lykken is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive Abilities and Testing (26 papers), Deception detection and forensic psychology (18 papers) and Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (14 papers). David T. Lykken collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. David T. Lykken's co-authors include Auke Tellegen, Thomas J. Bouchard, Peter H. Venables, Matt McGue, Nancy L. Segal, Kimerly J. Wilcox, Don C. Fowles, Margaret J. Christie, Robert Edelberg and William W. Grings and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

David T. Lykken

136 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Publication Recommendations for Electrodermal Measurements

1981 1.4k citations David T. Lykken et al. profile →
Statistical significance in psychological research.

1968 1.1k citations David T. Lykken profile →
Happiness Is a Stochastic Phenomenon

1996 1.0k citations David T. Lykken, Auke Tellegen profile →
Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together.

1988 961 citations Auke Tellegen, David T. Lykken et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
A study of anxiety in the sociopathic personality.

1957 873 citations David T. Lykken profile →
Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart

1990 827 citations Thomas J. Bouchard, David T. Lykken et al. profile →
DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF SKIN CONDUCTANCE: A PROPOSAL FOR STANDARDIZATION

1971 825 citations David T. Lykken et al. profile →
Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together.

1988 740 citations Auke Tellegen, David T. Lykken et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
The GSR in the detection of guilt.

1959 441 citations David T. Lykken profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A More Accurate Estimate of Heritability 2007 ·Twin Research and Human Genetics ·David T. Lykken	9
2	Stability and Change in Relationships 2002 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Anita L. Vangelisti, Paula R. Pietromonaco, Jens B. Asendorpf, Chalandra M. Bryant, David T. Lykken, Michael E. Roloff, Patricia Noller, Sarah W. Whitton, David A. Chiriboga, Rebecca M. Warner, Ronald D. Rogge, Susan Sprecher, Jennifer Wheeler, Elaine Hatfield, Joseph N. Cappella	65
3	Parental licensure. 2001 ·American Psychologist ·David T. Lykken	7
4	Reconstructing fathers. 2000 ·American Psychologist ·David T. Lykken	4
5	The Causes and Costs of Crime and a Controversial Cure 2000 ·Journal of Personality ·David T. Lykken	19
6	Intrinsic and extrinsic religiousness: genetic and environmental influences and personality correlates 1999 ·Twin Research ·Thomas J. Bouchard, Matt McGue, David T. Lykken, Auke Tellegen	78
7	Happy is as Happy Does 1997 ·Chemistry & Industry ·David T. Lykken	1
8	Incompetent parenting: Its causes and cures 1997 ·Child Psychiatry & Human Development ·David T. Lykken	8
9	Personality and divorce: A genetic analysis. 1996 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·(unknown), Matt McGue, David T. Lykken	162
10	A genetic analysis of relative weight among 4,020 twin pairs, with an emphasis on sex effects. 1994 ·Health Psychology ·David B. Allison, Stanley Heshka, Michael C. Neale, David T. Lykken, et al	29
11	Age and the self-perception of ability: A twin study analysis. 1993 ·Psychology and Aging ·Matt McGue, Betsy Hirsch, David T. Lykken	24
12	Emergenesis: Genetic traits that may not run in families. 1992 ·American Psychologist ·David T. Lykken, Matt McGue, Auke Tellegen, Thomas J. Bouchard	28
13	Why (some) Americans believe in the lie detector while others believe in the guilty knowledge test 1991 ·Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science ·David T. Lykken	28
14	Does contact lead to similarity or similarity to contact? 1990 ·Behavior Genetics ·David T. Lykken, Matt McGue, Thomas J. Bouchard, Auke Tellegen	45
15	Heritability of substance abuse and antisocial behavior: A study of monozygotic twins reared apart 1990 ·Biological Psychiatry ·William M. Grove, Elke D. Eckert, Leonard L. Heston, Thomas J. Bouchard, Nancy L. Segal, David T. Lykken	256
16	Genetic and Environmental Influences on Special Mental Abilities in a Sample of Twins Reared Apart 1990 ·Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae twin research ·Thomas J. Bouchard, Nancy L. Segal, David T. Lykken	36
17	The Minnesota Twin Family Registry: Some Initial Findings 1990 ·Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae twin research ·David T. Lykken, Thomas J. Bouchard, Matt McGue, Auke Tellegen	277
18	Genetic factors in the electrocardiogram and heart rate of twins reared apart and together 1989 ·The American Journal of Cardiology ·(unknown), Naip Tuna, Thomas J. Bouchard, Leonard L. Heston, Elke D. Eckert, David T. Lykken, Nancy L. Segal, Stephen S. Rich	54
19	Genetic determination of the human EEG 1988 ·Human Genetics ·Hans H. Stassen, David T. Lykken, Peter Propping, (unknown)	44
20	Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together. breakdown → 1988 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Auke Tellegen, David T. Lykken, Thomas J. Bouchard, Kimerly J. Wilcox, et al	961

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