Over the past few years, social scientists have used the GWAS methodology to study social scientific phenotypes and have also contributed to the development of new methods to study those phenotypes. I will summarize the results of recent GWAS of risk tolerance, educational attainment, and subjective wellbeing, and briefly discuss their implications for both geneticists and social scientists.

Background readings:

Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences -- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0309-3

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals -- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0147-3

Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses -- https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3552