Drew Altschul
British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow

- 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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Personality traits, rank attainment, and siring success throughout the lives of male chimpanzees of Gombe National Park
In:
PeerJ
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
TeenCovidLife: a resource to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in Scotland
In:
Wellcome Open Research , vol. 6, pp. 277
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17252.2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: An observational study
In:
The Lancet Public Health, vol. 7, pp. 406-416
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00042-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Build up big-team science
(3 pages)
In:
Nature, vol. 601, pp. 505-507
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00150-2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (E-pub ahead of print) -
Pre-pandemic mental and physical health as predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from a UK-wide cohort study
In:
Annals of Medicine, vol. 54, pp. 274-282
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07853890.2022.2027007
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The evolution of primate short-term memory
In:
Animal Behavior and Cognition, vol. 9, pp. 428-516
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.04.06.2022
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: cohort study
In:
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, vol. 96, pp. 100-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2021.05.016
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)