List of all publications

Preprints

*Andersen, M. L., Hart, R. K., Sunde, H. F., Davies, N. M., and Torvik, F. T. (2025)
The Cost of Caring: Gendered Health and Labour Market Effects of Grandparenthood.
Preprint at SSRN
http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5717325

*van Bergen, E., Sunde, H. F., Rowland, C. F., Melby-Lervåg, M., & Torvik, F. A. (2025).
Why educational inequality runs in families: Genetics matter more than environment.
Preprint at OSF
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rehdj_v1

2026

Sunde, H. F., & Dierker, P. (2026).
Are Spouses Similar in Divorce? Investigating Spousal Similarity in Couple-Shared Outcomes.
Twin Research and Human Genetics
https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2026.10050

Sunde, H. F., Eilertsen, E. M., Kinge, J. M., Kleppesto, T. H., Nordmo, M., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., & Torvik, F. A. (2026).
Parental income and psychiatric disorders from age 10 to 40: a genetically informative population study.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70022
(OA preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.21.24315865)

Aczel, B., et. al., (2026).
Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences.
Nature
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09844-9

Andersen, M. L., Sunde, H. F., Hart, R. K., & Torvik, F. A. (2026).
Parenthood and mental health throughout the life course: A total population study.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-026-03091-7

Reme, B.-A., Sunde, H. F., Torvik, F. A., Kinge, J. M., Strand, B. H., & Wörn, J. (2026).
Parental income in childhood and health outcomes across age groups: a register-based study from Norway.
BMC Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-026-04735-w

Landmark, L., Sunde, H. F., Fors, E. A., Kennair, L. E. O., & Reme, S. E. (2026).
Prevalence of Bodily Distress Syndrome and Prediction of Patient Outcomes: Cohort Study of 3762 Individuals With Persistent Pain.
European Journal of Pain
https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70212‍ ‍

Eilertsen, E. M., Eftedal, N. H., Cheesman, R., Ayorech, Z., Ebeltoft, J. C., Sunde, H. F., Tandberg, A. D., Torvik, F. A., & Ystrom, E. (2026).
Multivariate maternal effects across the internalizing–externalizing spectrum in childhood: results from the Norwegian mother, father, and child cohort study.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70111‍ ‍

Kleppestø, T. H., Bendixen, M., Sunde, H. F., Zietsch, B., Harper, K. T., Karlsen, H., Stavang, M., Eftedal, N. H., & Kennair, L. E. O. (2026).
The attractive personality: Like me, but better.
Evolution and Human Behavior
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106811‍ ‍

2025

Sunde, H. F., Eilertsen, E. M., & Torvik, F. A. (2025).
Understanding indirect assortative mating and its intergenerational consequences for educational attainment.
Nature Communications
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60483-0

Nordmo, M., Sunde, H. F., Kleppesto, T. H., Nordmo, M., Caspi, A., Ph.D., Moffitt, T., & Torvik, F. A. (2025).
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males.
Psychological Science
https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251347221

Eftedal, N. H., Eilertsen, E. M., Sunde, H. F., Kleppestø, T. H., Ystrom, E., & Czajkowski, N. O. (2025).
Beyond additive genetic effects: Explaining family resemblance in school performance across millions of pairs of Norwegian relatives.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419627122

Skirbekk, V., Blekesaune, M., & Sunde, H. F. (2025).
Personality and fertility dynamics in Norway across four decades – Findings from the HUNT survey.
Personality and Individual Differences.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112862

2024

Sunde, H. F.,Eftedal, N. H., Cheesman, R., Corfield, E. C., Kleppesto, T. H., Seierstad, A. C., Ystrom, E., Eilertsen, E. M., & Torvik, F. A. (2024).
Genetic similarity between relatives provides evidence on the presence and history of assortative mating.
Nature Communications.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46939-9

Torvik, F. A., Sunde, H. F., Cheesman, R., Eftedal, N. H., Keller, M. C., Ystrom, E., & Eilertsen, E. M. (2024).
Non-random mating patterns within and across education and mental and somatic health.
Nature Communications
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54966-9‍ ‍

Caspi, A., Houts, R. M., Moffitt, T. E., Richmond-Rakerd, L. S., Hanna, M. R., Sunde, H. F., & Torvik, F. A. (2024).
A nationwide analysis of 350 million patient encounters reveals a high volume of mental-health conditions in primary care.
Nature Mental Health.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00310-5

Nordmo, M., Kleppestø, T. H., Reme, B. A., Sunde, H. F., Von Soest, T., & Torvik, F. A. (2024).
The diminishing association between adolescent mental disorders and educational performance from 2006–2019.
JCPP Advances.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12239

Landmark, L., Sunde, H. F., Fors, E. A., Kennair, L. E. O., Sayadian, A., Backelin, C., & Reme, S. E. (2024).
Associations between pain intensity, psychosocial factors, and pain-related disability in 4285 patients with chronic pain.
Scientific Reports.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64059-8

2023

Nordmo, M., Kleppestø, T., Sunde, H. F., Flatø, M., Demange, P., & Torvik, F. A. (2023).
The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance.
npj Science of Learning.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00182-x

Kleppesto, T. H., Eilertsen, E. M., van Bergen, E., Sunde, H. F., Zietsch, B., Nordmo, M., Eftedal, N. H., Havdahl, A., Ystrom, E., & Torvik, F. A. (2023).
Intergenerational transmission of ADHD behaviors: genetic and environmental pathways.
Psychological Medicine.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329172300315X

2022

Sunde, H. F., Kleppestø, T. H., Gustavson, K., Nordmo, M., Reme, B. A., & Torvik, F. A. (2022).
The ADHD deficit in school performance across sex and parental education: A prospective sibling‐comparison register study of 344,152 Norwegian adolescents.
JCPP Advances.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12064

Lisøy, R. S., Pfuhl, G., Sunde, H. F., & Biegler, R. (2022).
Sweet spot in music—Is predictability preferred among persons with psychotic-like experiences or autistic traits?
PLOS ONE.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275308