Publications from The Longitudinal Israeli Study of Twins
Journal Articles
 

1. Daniel, E… Knafo-Noam, A. et al. (2024). Value incoherence precedes value change: Evidence from value development in childhood and adolescence across cultures. European Journal of Personality

2. Abramson, L., Pener-Tessler, R., Kepler, D., Saudino, K. J., Gagne, J. R., Angel, M. & Knafo-Noam, A.* (2024), The structure, development, and etiology of observed temperament during middle childhood. Developmental Psychology.

3. Segal, H., Rum, Y., Barkan, A., & Knafo-Noam, A.* (2024). ״You and Me״: Parental perceptions on a-symmetry in twins' development and their dominance relationship dynamics, Family Relations.

4. Barneron, M. Abramson, L., Yaniv, I. & Knafo-Noam, A.* (in press). Genetically-diverse crowds are wiser. Personality and Individual Differences.

5. Segal, H. & Knafo-Noam, A.* (2024). The dual journey: The development of twins’ relationships throughout childhood, Advances in Child Development and Behavior.

6. Mairon, N. Abramson, L., Knafo-Noam, A., Perry, A., & Nahum, M. (2023). The relationship between empathy and executive functions among young adolescents, Developmental Psychology.

7. Markovitch, N., Hart, Y.*. & Knafo-Noam, A. * (2023). Environmental susceptibility for all: A data-driven approach suggests individual differences in domain-general and domain-specific patterns of environmental susceptibility, Development and Psychopathology.

8. Segal, H., Gutermann, S. & Knafo-Noam, A.* (2023). Two peas in a pod? Development of twin relationships in light of twins’ temperament differences. European Journal of Personality

9. Abramson, L., Eldar, E., Markovitch, N. & Knafo-Noam, A. (2022). The empathic personality profile: Using personality characteristics to reveal genetic, environmental, and developmental patterns of adolescents' empathy. Journal of Personality.

10. Misgav,K., Shachnai, R. Abramson, L., Knafo-Noam, A. & Daniel, E. (2022). Cognitive ability and personal motivation as predictors of children’s helping behavior in middle childhood, Journal of Personality.

11. Avinun, R., Knafo‐Noam, A., & Israel, S. (2022). The general psychopathology factor from early to middle childhood: Longitudinal genetic and risk analyses. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (Formerly Journal of Abnormal Psychology).

12. Pener‐Tessler, R., Markovitch, N., & Knafo‐Noam, A.* (2022). The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence. Developmental Science, e13270.

13. Rum, Y., Genzer, S., Markovitch, N., Jenkins, J., Perry, A., & Knafo‐Noam, A.* (2022). Are there positive effects of having a sibling with special needs? Empathy and prosociality of twins of children with non‐typical development. Child Development.

14. Markovitch, N., Kirkpatrick, R.M. & Knafo-Noam, A. * (2021). Are different individuals sensitive to different environments? Individual differences in sensitivity to the effects of the parent, peer and school environment on externalizing behavior and its genetic and environmental etiology. Behavior Genetics.

15. Markovitch, N., & Knafo-Noam, A.* (2021). Sensitivity, but to which environment? Individual differences in sensitivity to parents and peers show domain-specific patterns and a negative genetic correlation. Developmental Science.

16. Segal, H., & Knafo-Noam, A.* (2021). “Side by side”: Development of twin relationship dimensions from early to middle childhood and the role of zygosity and parenting. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

17. Vertsberger, D., Saudino, K, Avinun, R., Abramson, L., & Knafo-Noam, A.* (2019). A longitudinal genetically informed analysis of parental negativity and children's negative emotionality in middle childhood. Developmental Psychology

18. Vertsberger, D., Abramson, L., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2019). The Longitudinal Israeli Study of Twins (LIST) reaches adolescence: Genetic and environmental pathways to social, personality, and moral development. Twin Research and Human Genetics.

19. Twito, L., Israel, S., Simonson, I., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2019). The motivational aspect of children’s delayed gratification: Values and decision making in middle childhood. Frontiers in Psychology.

20. Schapira, R., Elfenbein, H. A., Amichay-Setter, M., Zahn-Waxler, C., & Knafo-Noam, A. * (2019). Shared environment effects on children's emotion recognition. Frontiers in Psychiatry.

21. Segal, H., & Knafo-Noam, A.* (2019). The Twin Relationship Questionnaire: Testing a five-factor model from early to middle childhood. European Journal of Psychological Assessment

22. Yirmiya, K., Segal., N. L., Bloch, G., & Knafo-Noam, A.* (2018). Prosocial and self-interested intra-twin pair behavior in monozygotic and dizygotic twins in the early to middle childhood transition, Developmental Science.

23. Knafo-Noam, A., Vertsberger, D., & Israel, S., (2018). Genetic and environmental contributions to children’s prosocial behavior: Brief review and new evidence from a reanalysis of experimental twin data. Current Opinion in Psychology.

24. Avinun, R., Davidov, M., Mankuta, D., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2017). Predicting the use of corporal punishment: Child aggression, parent religiosity, and the BDNF gene. Aggresive Behavior.

25. Markovitch, N., Luyckx, K., Klimstra, T., Abramson, L. & Knafo-Noam, A  (2017). Identity exploration and commitment in early adolescence: Genetic and environmental contributions. Developmental Psychology.

26. Avinun, R., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2017). Parental brain-derived neurotrophic factor genotype, child prosociality, and their interaction as predictors of parents' warmth. Brain and Behavior.

27. Uzefovsky, F., Döring, A.K. & Knafo-Noam, A. (2016). Values in middle childhood: Social and genetic contributions. Social Development.

28. Hasenfratz, L., Benish-Weisman, M., Steinberg, T., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2015). Temperament and peer problems from early to middle childhood: Gene-environment correlations with negative emotionality and sociability. Development and Psychopathology, 27, 1089–1109.

29. Knafo-Noam, A., Uzefovsky, F., Israel, S., Davidov, M., & Zahn-Waxler C. (2015). The prosocial personality and its facets: Genetic and environmental architecture of mother-reported behavior of 7-year old twins. Frontiers in Psychology.

30. Benish- Weisman, M., Kerem, E., Knafo-Noam, A., & Belsky, J. (2015).,The moderating role of genetics: The effect of length of hospitalization on children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Frontiers in Psychiatry.

31. Ben-Israel, S., Uzefovsky, F., Ebstein, R.P. & Knafo-Noam, A., (2105). Dopamine D4 Receptor Polymorphism and Sex Interact to Predict Children's Affective Knowledge. Frontiers in Psychology.

32. Rabinowitch, T.-C. & Knafo-Noam, A. (in press). Synchronous rhythmic interaction enhances children's perceived similarity and closeness towards each other. PLOS One.

33. Fortuna, K., Baor, B. Israel, S., Abadi, A.,  & Knafo, A.* (2014). Attachment to inanimate objects and early childcare: A twin study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5.

34. Avinun, R. & Knafo, A. (2013). The Longitudinal Israeli Study of Twins (LIST) – An integrative view of social development. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 16.

35. Avinun, R.,  Ebstein, R.P.,  & Knafo, A * (2012). Human maternal behavior is associated with arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (AVPR1A) gene. Biology Letters.

36. Pener-Tessler, R., Avinun, R., Uzefovsky, F., Edelman, S., Ebstein, R.P., & Knafo, A. (2013). Boys’ serotonin transporter (SLC6A4) 5-HTTLPR genotype affects maternal behavior through boys’ self-control: A case of evocative gene-environment correlation. Development and Psychopathology, 25.

37. Kavé, G., Shalmon, M., & Knafo, A. (2013). Environmental contributions to preschoolers' semantic fluency. Developmental Science, 16, 124–135

38. Knafo, A., Israel, S., & Ebstein, R. P. (2011). Heritability of children’s prosocial behavior and differential susceptibility to parenting by variation in the Dopamine D4 Receptor (DRD4) gene. Development and Psychopathology, 23, 53–67.

39. Avinun, R., Israel, S., Shalev, I., Gritsenko, I., Bornstein, G., Ebstein, R.P., & Knafo, A. (2011). AVPR1A variant associated with preschoolers' lower altruistic behavior. PLoS one, 6.

40. Fortuna, K., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Mankuta, D., Kaitz, M., Avinun, R., Ebstein, R. P., & Knafo, A. (2011). Differential genetic susceptibility to child risk at birth in predicting observed maternal behavior. PLoS one.

41. Mankuta, D., Goldner,  I., & Knafo, A. (2010). Inter-twin birth weight differences and conduct problems in early childhood. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 164, 457-461.

42. Fortuna, K., Goldner, I., & Knafo, A. (2010). Twin relationships:  A comparison across monozygotic twins, dizygotic twins and nontwin siblings in early childhood. Family Science, 1, 205- 211.

43. Benish-Weisman, M., Steinberg, T., & Knafo, A. (2010). Genetic and environmental links between children’s temperament and their problems with peers. Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 47, 144-151.

44. Knafo, A., Zahn-Waxler, C., Davidov, M., Van Hulle, C., & Robinson, J., & Rhee, S. H. (2009). Empathy in early childhood: Genetic, environmental and affective contributions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1167, 103–114.

45. Israel, S., Lerer, E., Shalev, I., Uzefovsky, F., Riebold, M., Laiba, E., Bachner-Melman, R., Maril, A., Bornstein, G., Knafo, A., & Ebstein, R. P. (2009). The oxytocin receptor (OXTR) contributes to prosocial fund allocations in two economic decision tasks, the Dictator Game and Social Value Orientations. PLOS one.

46. Knafo, A. (2006). The Longitudinal Israeli Study of Twins (LIST): Children's social development as influenced by genetics, abilities, and socialization. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 9, 791-798.

47. Handbook/Encyclopedia/ Book Chapters

48. Segal, H. & & Knafo-Noam*, A. (2018). Twin rivalry in childhood. In S. Hart and N. Aaron Jones (Eds.). Psychology of emotions, motivations and actions. The psychology of rivalry (p. 111–129). Nova Science Publishers.

49. Knafo, A. & Israel, S. (2012). Empathy, prosociality, and other aspects of kindness. In M. Zentner & R. Shiner, (Eds.). The Handbook of Temperament: Theory and Research. New York: Guilford Press.

50. Knafo, A., & Uzefovsky, F. (2013). Variation in empathy: The interplay of genetic and environmental factors. In: M. Legerstee, D. W. Haley, & M. H. Bornstein (Eds.). The Infant Mind: Origins of the Social Brain. Guilford Press, pp. 97-122.

51. Knafo, A. (2011).  Gene-environment Correlation Applied to Parenting: Maternal Warmth and Intrusiveness. In E. Kourkoutas & F. Erkman (Eds.). Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection: Social, Emotional, and Educational Contexts. Boca Raton, FL: Brown Walker Press

52. Knafo, A., & Israel, S. (2009). Genetic and Environmental Influences on Prosocial Behavior. In: M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Prosocial Motives, Emotions, and Behavior: The Better Angels of Our Nature, pp. 149-167. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (APA) Publications.

53. Oakley, B., Knafo, A., & McGrath, M. (2011). Pathological Altruism – An Introduction. In B. Oakley, A. Knafo, G. Madhavan, & D. S. Wilson (Eds.), Pathological Altruism (pp. 3-8), Oxford University Press.

54. Group Articles

55. Silventoinen, K., et al. (in press). Heritability of birth size: a pooled individual-based analysis of secular trends and global differences using 26 twin cohorts. International Journal of Epidemiology.

56. Jelenkovic, A., et al. (2018). Birth size and gestational age in opposite-sex twins as compared to same-sex twins: An individual-based pooled analysis of 21 cohorts. Scientific Reports.

57. Jelenkovic, A., et al. (2018). Associations between birth size and later height from infancy through adulthood: An individual based pooled analysis of 28 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project. Early Human Development

58. Silventoinen, K. et al. (in press). Education in twins and their parents across birth cohorts over 100 years:an individual-level pooled analysis of 42 twin cohorts. Twin Research and Human Genetics.

59. Jelenkovic, A., et al. (2017). Association between birth weight and later body mass index: An individual based pooled analysis of 27 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project. International Journal of Epidemiology

60. Jelenkovic, A., et al. (2016). Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts. Scientific Reports.

61. Silventoinen, K. et al. (2015). The CODAtwins project: the cohort description of Collaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins to study macro-environmental variation in genetic and environmental effects on anthropometric traits. Twin Research and Human Genetics.

62. Silventoinen, K. et al. (2016). Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

63. Yokoyama, Y., et al. (2016). Twins’ birth-order differences in height and body mass index from birth to old age: a pooled study of 26 twin cohorts participated in the CODATwins project. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 

64. Jelenkovic, A., et al. (2015). Zygosity differences in height and body mass index of twins from infancy to old age: A study of the CODATwins project. Twin Research and Human Genetics