Keller, M. C. (in press). Problems with the imprinting hypothesis of schizophrenia and autism [Commentary]. Brain and Behavioral Sciences.

Keller, M. C. (in press). Life events and depressive symptoms [Response to Letter], American Journal of Psychiatry.

Keller, M. C. (in press). Evolutionary genetic framework for mental disorders in humans. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.

Keller, M. C., Neale, M. C., & Kendler, K. S. (2007). Different negative life events are associated with different patterns of depressive symptoms. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 1521-1529. [Download ALE Coding Book][Download PDF].[Selected by the editors as a notable paper of 2007].

Ybarra, O., Burnstein, E., Winkielman, P., Keller, M. C., Manis, M., Chan, E., & Rodriguez, J. (in press). Mental exercising through simple socializing: Social interaction promotes general cognitive functioning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [Download PDF].

Keller, M. C. (2007). The role of mutations in human mating. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Theoretical, experimental, and differential perspectives. Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ. [Download PDF].

Keller, M. C. (2007). Standards of evidence in the nascent field of evolutionary behavioral genetics [Commentary]. European Journal of Personality, 21, 608-610.[Download PDF].

Ybarra, O., Keller, M. C., Chan, E., Baron, A. S., Hutsler, J., Garcia, S. M., Sanchez-Burks, J., & Morrison, K. R. (2007). The social prediction dynamic: A legacy of cognition and mixed motives. In J. P. Forgas, M. G. Haselton, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), Evolution and the Social Mind. Psychology Press: New York. [PDF available soon].

Keller, M. C., & Miller, G. F. (2006). Resolving the paradox of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders: Which evolutionary genetic models work best? [Target Article]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 385-452. [Download PDF: Target Article + Comments + Response].

Keller, M. C., & Miller, G. F. (2006). An evolutionary framework for mental disorders: Integrating adaptationist and evolutionary genetic models. [Response to commentaries]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 429-441.

Keller, M. C., & Nesse, R. M. (2006). The evolutionary significance of depressive symptoms: Different life events lead to different depressive symptom patterns. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 316-330. [Download PDF].

Cannon, T., & Keller, M. C. (2006). Endophenotypes in the genetic analyses of mental disorders. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2, 267-290. [Download PDF].

Keller, M. C., Coventry, W. L., Heath, A. C., & Martin, N. G. (2005). Widespread evidence for non-additive genetic variation in the Cloninger and Eysenck personality dimensions using a twin plus sibling design. Behavior Genetics, 35, 707-721. [Download PDF].

Keller, M. C., Fredrickson, B. L., Ybarra, O., Cote, S., Johnson, K., Mikels, J., & Wager, T. (2005). A warm heart and a clear head: The contingent effects of weather on human mood and cognition. Psychological Science, 16, 724-731. [Download PDF ].

Keller, M. C. & Coventry, W. L. (2005). Quantifying and addressing parameter indeterminacy in the classical twin design. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 8, 201-213. [Download PDF].

Coventry, W. L. & Keller, M. C. (2005). Estimating the extent of parameter bias in the classical twin design: A comparison of parameter estimates from the extended twin-family and classical twin designs. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 8, 214-223. [Download PDF].

Wager, T., Keller, M. C., Jonides, J., Smith, O., & Lacey, S. (2005). Increased sensitivity in neuroimaging analyses using robust regression. NeuroImage, 26, 99-113. [Download PDF].

Keller, M. C., & Nesse, R. M. (2005). Is low mood an adaptation? Evidence for subtypes with symptoms that match precipitants. Journal of Affective Disorders, 86, 27-35. [Download PDF].

Keller, M. C. (2004) Evolutionary explanations of schizophrenia must ultimately explain the genes that predispose to it [Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 861-862. [Download PDF].

Keller, M. C., Nesse, R. M., & Hofferth, S. (2001). The Trivers-Willard effect in parental investment: No effect in the contemporary U.S. Evolution and Human Behavior, 22, 343-360. [Download PDF].

Keller, M. C., Thiessen, D. T., & Young, R. K. (1996). Mate assortment in dating and married couples.  Personality and Individual Differences, 21, 217-221. [Download PDF].

MANUSCRIPTS:

Keller, M. C. & Neale, M. C. (submitted). Sum scores versus maximum likelihood factor scores.

Keller, M. C. (in preparation). PedEvolve: A general simulator of genetically informative data.

Keller, M. C. (invited review, Current Directions in Psychological Science). Evolution, genetics, and human disorders.

Laird, K., Kleemeyer, C., Salehi, A., Lisha, N., Brandick, C., Chan, C., Demps, K., & Su, J. Evidence for Evolution. Edited by K. Laird & M. Keller. [This paper was written by undergraduate students in Psychology 188A, spring 2005, as a group project using the “Jigsaw Classroom” model. Download PDF].

Ybarra, O., Keller, M. C., & Chan, E., (submitted). The trouble with predicting human behavior: A theory of mind reading evasion.

Ybarra, O., Keller, M. C., Garcia, S. M., Sanchez-Burks, J., Chan, E., & Baron, A. S. (submitted). On being unpredictable to some of the people some of the time.

Coventry, W. L., Keller, M. C., Medland, S. E., Gillespie, N.A., Heath, A. C., & Martin, N. G. (in preparation). Genetic and environmental influences on perceived social support: Differences across sex and the member of the support network.