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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Psychology D-index 43 Citations 6,937 170 World Ranking 5071 National Ranking 516

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Statistics
  • Developmental psychology
  • Social psychology

His scientific interests lie mostly in Personality, Developmental psychology, Big Five personality traits, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. His research integrates issues of Aptitude, Clinical psychology and Openness to experience in his study of Personality. His Developmental psychology research includes elements of Personality Assessment Inventory, Socioeconomic status, Novelty and Heritability.

His studies in Big Five personality traits integrate themes in fields like Neuroticism, Foraging and Subjective well-being. Agreeableness is closely attributed to Demography in his work. His biological study deals with issues like Hierarchical structure of the Big Five, which deal with fields such as Alternative five model of personality.

His most cited work include:

  • Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing The Genetics of Personality and Well-Being in a Representative Sample (312 citations)
  • Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Illness and Death: How Researchers in Differential Psychology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology Are Collaborating to Understand and Address Health Inequalities (308 citations)
  • Domain and facet personality predictors of all-cause mortality among Medicare patients aged 65 to 100. (241 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Alexander Weiss mainly focuses on Personality, Developmental psychology, Big Five personality traits, Neuroticism and Agreeableness. His work carried out in the field of Personality brings together such families of science as Clinical psychology and Openness to experience. The various areas that Alexander Weiss examines in his Developmental psychology study include Personality Assessment Inventory, Troglodytes, Subjective well-being and Personality development.

His study looks at the intersection of Big Five personality traits and topics like Cognition with Socioeconomic status. His Neuroticism study which covers Demography that intersects with National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and Hazard ratio. His work on Hierarchical structure of the Big Five expands to the thematically related Agreeableness.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Personality (66.48%)
  • Developmental psychology (47.16%)
  • Big Five personality traits (27.27%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Personality (66.48%)
  • Developmental psychology (47.16%)
  • Clinical psychology (18.75%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His scientific interests lie mostly in Personality, Developmental psychology, Clinical psychology, Neuroticism and Cognitive psychology. His work in Conscientiousness, Extraversion and introversion, Big Five personality traits, Agreeableness and Personality psychology are all subfields of Personality research. The concepts of his Conscientiousness study are interwoven with issues in Cooperative breeding and Openness to experience.

His Developmental psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Phylogenetics and Life history theory. His Clinical psychology research integrates issues from Gene, Subjective well-being and Anxiety. His Neuroticism study incorporates themes from Psychiatry and Worry.

Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • When Is Higher Neuroticism Protective Against Death? Findings From UK Biobank (54 citations)
  • Rhesus macaque personality, dominance, behavior, and health. (36 citations)
  • Genetic contributions to two special factors of neuroticism are associated with affluence, higher intelligence, better health, and longer life (21 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Statistics
  • Social psychology
  • Ecology

His primary scientific interests are in Personality, Clinical psychology, Neuroticism, Developmental psychology and Extraversion and introversion. His research combines Openness to experience and Personality. Alexander Weiss has included themes like Callithrix, Marmoset and Anxiety in his Clinical psychology study.

As a member of one scientific family, Alexander Weiss mostly works in the field of Neuroticism, focusing on Worry and, on occasion, Confidence interval and Hazard ratio. His Developmental psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Epidemiology, Facial expression, Face and Cognitive bias. His Extraversion and introversion study improves the overall literature in Big Five personality traits.

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Best Publications

Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing The Genetics of Personality and Well-Being in a Representative Sample

Alexander Weiss;Timothy C. Bates;Michelle Luciano.
Psychological Science (2008)

558 Citations

Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Illness and Death: How Researchers in Differential Psychology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology Are Collaborating to Understand and Address Health Inequalities

Ian J. Deary;Alexander Weiss;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;G. David Batty.
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (2010)

517 Citations

Domain and facet personality predictors of all-cause mortality among Medicare patients aged 65 to 100.

Alexander Weiss;Paul T. Costa.
Psychosomatic Medicine (2005)

357 Citations

Neuroticism, extraversion, and mortality in the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey: a 21-year prospective cohort study.

Beverly A. Shipley;Alexander Weiss;Geoff Der;Michelle D. Taylor.
Psychosomatic Medicine (2007)

313 Citations

Personality and subjective well-being in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii).

Alexander Weiss;James E King;Lori Perkins.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2006)

241 Citations

Subjective well-being is heritable and genetically correlated with dominance in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Alexander Weiss;James E. King;R. Mark Enns.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2002)

190 Citations

Conscientiousness predicts disease progression (CD4 number and viral load) in people living with HIV.

Conall O'Cleirigh;Gail Ironson;Alexander Weiss;Paul T. Costa.
Health Psychology (2007)

169 Citations

Assessing chimpanzee personality and subjective well-being in Japan.

Alexander Weiss;Miho Inoue-Murayama;Kyung-Won Hong;Eiji Inoue.
American Journal of Primatology (2009)

167 Citations

The heritability of personality factors in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Alexander Weiss;James E. King;Aurelio José Figueredo.
Behavior Genetics (2000)

166 Citations

A chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) analogue of cross-national generalization of personality structure: zoological parks and an African sanctuary.

James E. King;Alexander Weiss;Kay H. Farmer.
Journal of Personality (2005)

149 Citations

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