Drew Altschul
Postdoctoral researcher
- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: drew.altschul@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room F2, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Qualifications
PhD Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, 2017
MS Neuroscience, Brandeis University, 2010
SB Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008
Research summary
My recent work can be roughly divided into three areas. First, the reciprocal relationships between health and cognitive abilities (e.g. Altschul, Starr, & Deary, 2018; Altschul, Wraw, Der, Gale, & Deary, 2019). Second, developing large-scale, collaborative projects to systematically study cognition and personality across the primate phylogeny (ManyPrimates et al., 2019a, 2019b). Third, grappling with how assertiveness traits are related to, but distinct from, hierarchical rank in a variety of primate species (e.g. Wilson et al., 2020; Altschul, Robinson, Coleman, Capitanio, Wilson, 2019).
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Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research
Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Playing analog games is associated with reduced declines in cognitive function
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz149
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915006117
Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
How youth cognitive and sociodemographic factors relate to the development of overweight and obesity in the UK and the USA: a prospective cross-cohort study of the National Child Development Study and National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033011
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research
(19 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223675
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
An exploration of the relationships among facial dimensions, age, sex, dominance status and personality in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-019-00104-y
Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Future directions for personality research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9050240
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)