Biography:Lars Penke

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Lars Penke
Born (1978-09-02) 2 September 1978 (age 45)
Detmold, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationHumboldt University of Berlin
Known forDifferential psychology
Evolutionary psychology
Personality psychology
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsGeorg August University of Göttingen
ThesisApproaches to an Evolutionary Personality Psychology: The Case of Sociosexuality (2007)
Doctoral advisorJens Asendorpf

Lars Penke (born 2 September 1978) is a professor of biological personality psychology at the Georg August University of Göttingen in Germany . He is also an associate member of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom .[1] His research focuses on evolutionary and personality psychology, including the evolutionary importance of psychological traits such as human intelligence.[2] He is a member of the International Society for Intelligence Research and the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.[1]

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