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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Change in health literacy over a decade in a prospective cohort of community-dwelling older adults
In:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06423-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Do childhood socioeconomic circumstances moderate the association between childhood cognitive ability and all-cause mortality across the life course? Prospective observational study of the 36-day sample of the Scottish Mental Survey 1947
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 10, pp. e037847
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037847
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Mental health before and during COVID-19 in two longitudinal UK population cohorts
In:
The British Journal of Psychiatry, pp. 1-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.242
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Trialling meta-research in comparative cognition: Claims and statistical inference in animal physical cognition
(26 pages)
In:
Animal Behavior and Cognition, vol. 7, pp. 419-444
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.07.03.09.2020
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Blood pressure and cognitive function across the eighth decade: A prospective study of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936
In:
BMJ Open
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033990
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Psychosocial factors and hospitalisations for COVID-19: Prospective cohort study based on a community sample
In:
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.06.021
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration
In:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, pp. 8398-8403
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915006117
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)