Intelligence and personality as predictors of illness and death: How researchers in differential psychology and chronic disease epidemiology are collaborating to …

IJ Deary, A Weiss, GD Batty - Psychological science in the …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
This monograph describes research findings linking intelligence and personality traits with
health outcomes, including health behaviors, morbidity, and mortality. The field of study of …

Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and genetic overlap with other health-related traits in UK Biobank (N= 112 117)

TK Clarke, MJ Adams, G Davies, DM Howard… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Alcohol consumption has been linked to over 200 diseases and is responsible for over 5%
of the global disease burden. Well-known genetic variants in alcohol metabolizing genes, for …

Simpson's paradox in psychological science: a practical guide

RA Kievit, WE Frankenhuis, LJ Waldorp… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The direction of an association at the population-level may be reversed within the subgroups
comprising that population—a striking observation called Simpson's paradox. When facing …

[HTML][HTML] Psychosocial factors and hospitalisations for COVID-19: Prospective cohort study based on a community sample

GD Batty, IJ Deary, M Luciano, DM Altschul… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background While certain infectious diseases have been linked to socioeconomic
disadvantage, mental health problems, and lower cognitive function, relationships with …

Family hardship, family instability, and cognitive development

I Schoon, E Jones, H Cheng… - J Epidemiol Community …, 2012 - jech.bmj.com
Background Associations between the characteristics of the family environment, in particular
poverty and family structure, and cognitive development are well established, yet little is …

Intelligence, health and death

IJ Deary, WD Hill, CR Gale - Nature human behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
The field of cognitive epidemiology studies the prospective associations between cognitive
abilities and health outcomes. We review research in this field over the past decade and …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: cohort study

GD Batty, IJ Deary, C Fawns-Ritchie, CR Gale… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Whereas several predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy have been
reported, the role of cognitive function is largely unknown. Accordingly, our objective was to …

[HTML][HTML] A model for personality at three levels

W Revelle, DM Condon - Journal of Research in Personality, 2015 - Elsevier
People differ. How and why they differ are the fundamental questions for personality
psychologists. In this article we address three levels at which people differ: within …

Intelligence in early adulthood and subsequent hospitalization for mental disorders

CR Gale, GD Batty, P Tynelius, IJ Deary… - Epidemiology, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Background: Lower intelligence is a risk factor for several specific mental disorders. It is
unclear whether it is a risk factor for all mental disorders, and whether it might be associated …

[HTML][HTML] The association between IQ in adolescence and a range of health outcomes at 40 in the 1979 US National Longitudinal Study of Youth

G Der, GD Batty, IJ Deary - Intelligence, 2009 - Elsevier
A link between pre-morbid intelligence and all cause mortality is becoming well established,
but the aetiology of the association is not understood. Less is known about links with cause …