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Alexander Weiss is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple scientific domains, with a strong focus on psychology, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. They have contributed 26 publications in psychology, 23 in medicine, and 21 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work extends deeply into several subfields, including molecular biology (14 publications), social psychology (11 publications), cellular and molecular neuroscience (8 publications), experimental and cognitive psychology (7 publications), and clinical psychology (7 publications).

Weiss's research addresses a variety of main topics such as:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

The scientist's publication record includes works in notable venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Journal of Comparative Psychology (4 publications)
  • Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences (4 publications)
  • Nature Communications (2 publications)
  • Brain Circulation (2 publications)
  • Environmental Disease (2 publications)

Alexander Weiss has also contributed to scholarly books, including "The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology" published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

They have collaborated regularly with a group of frequent co-authors, including Philip J. Corr, Kangle Deng, Tinghui Zhou, Maneesh Agrawala, and Miho Inoue-Murayama, each with three joint publications.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Genetic interaction mapping and exon-resolution functional genomics with a hybrid Cas9-Cas12a platform, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Systematic mapping of genetic interactions for de novo fatty acid synthesis identifies C12orf49 as a regulator of lipid metabolism, 2020, Nature Metabolism
  • An alternative splicing modulator decreases mutant HTT and improves the molecular fingerprint in Huntington's disease patient neurons, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Antagonizing microRNA -19a/b augments PTH anabolic action and restores bone mass in osteoporosis in mice, 2022, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Correlates of individual participation in boundary patrols by male chimpanzees, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

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

  • 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

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

    Alexander Weiss;Paul T. Costa

  • 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

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

    Alexander Weiss;James E King;Lori Perkins

  • Cerebral functional magnetic resonance imaging of vestibular, auditory, and nociceptive areas during galvanic stimulation

    Stefan F. Bucher;Marianne Dieterich;Martin Wiesmann;Alexander Weiss

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

    Alexander Weiss;James E. King;R. Mark Enns

  • Assessing chimpanzee personality and subjective well-being in Japan.

    Alexander Weiss;Miho Inoue-Murayama;Kyung-Won Hong;Eiji Inoue

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

    Alexander Weiss;James E. King;Aurelio José Figueredo

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

    Conall O'Cleirigh;Gail Ironson;Alexander Weiss;Paul T. Costa

  • Evidence for a ‘Midlife Crisis’ in Great Apes Consistent with the U-Shape in Human Well-Being

    Alexander Weiss;James E. King;Miho Inoue-Murayama;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Personality and foraging decisions in fallow deer, Dama dama

    Ulrika A. Bergvall;Ulrika A. Bergvall;Alexander Schäpers;Petter Kjellander;Alexander Weiss

  • Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) as living fossils of hominoid personality and subjective well-being.

    Alexander Weiss;Mark James Adams;Anja Widdig;Melissa S. Gerald

  • 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

  • Effects of galvanic vestibular stimulation on otolithic and semicircular canal eye movements and perceived vertical

    R Zink;S.F Bucher;A Weiss;Th Brandt

  • Traits and genotypes may predict the successful training of drug detection dogs

    Masami Maejima;Miho Inoue-Murayama;Keiichi Tonosaki;Naoto Matsuura

  • A Cross-Setting Study of Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Personality Structure and Development: Zoological Parks and Yerkes National Primate Research Center

    Alexander Weiss;James E. King;William D. Hopkins

  • Aping humans: age and sex effects in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and human (Homo sapiens) personality.

    James E. King;Alexander Weiss;Melissa M. Sisco

  • Personality and HIV disease progression: role of NEO-PI-R openness, extraversion, and profiles of engagement.

    Gail H Ironson;Conall O'Cleirigh;Conall O'Cleirigh;Alexander Weiss;Alexander Weiss;Neil Schneiderman

  • Emotionally stable, intelligent men live longer: the Vietnam Experience Study cohort.

    Alexander Weiss;Catharine Gale;G. D. Batty;Ian Deary

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE A Cross-Setting Study of Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Personality Structure and Development: Zoological Parks and Yerkes National Primate Research Center

    Alexander Weiss;James E. King;William D. Hopkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology
Michelle Luciano
Michelle Luciano University of Edinburgh
Paul T. Costa
Paul T. Costa Duke University
William D. Hopkins
William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Timothy C. Bates
Timothy C. Bates University of Edinburgh
Natalie Waran
Natalie Waran Eastern Institute of Technology
Paul R. Duberstein
Paul R. Duberstein Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Stephen R. Ross
Stephen R. Ross Lincoln Park Zoo
Ian Handel
Ian Handel University of Edinburgh

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