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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joseph Lee Rodgers is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, along with notable work in Genetics, Health, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The researcher's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

Joseph Lee Rodgers has authored papers published in various academic journals. Some recent examples include:

  • Understanding the exploratory/confirmatory data analysis continuum: Moving beyond the "replication crisis", 2021, American Psychologist
  • The Analytic Identification of Variance Component Models Common to Behavior Genetics, 2021, Behavior Genetics
  • Cohort and Period Effects as Explanations for Declining Dementia Trends and Cognitive Aging, 2021, Population and Development Review
  • The Flynn effect can become embedded in tests: How cross-sectional age norms can corrupt longitudinal research, 2020, Intelligence
  • Getting a Grip on Secular Changes: Age-Period-Cohort Modeling of Grip Strength in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, 2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series A

The main publication venues for their work include:

  • Intelligence
  • Behavior Genetics
  • American Psychologist
  • Population and Development Review
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Patrick O'Keefe
  • Linda Wänström
  • Graciela Muñiz-Terrera
  • Sean Clouston
  • Frank D. Mann

In 2012, Joseph Lee Rodgers was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Thirteen ways to look at the correlation coefficient

    Joseph Lee Rodgers;W. Alan Nicewander

  • Psychology, Science, and Knowledge Construction: Broadening Perspectives from the Replication Crisis.

    Patrick E. Shrout;Joseph L. Rodgers

  • The epistemology of mathematical and statistical modeling: a quiet methodological revolution.

    Joseph Lee Rodgers

  • Resolving the debate over birth order, family size, and intelligence.

    Joseph Lee Rodgers;H. Harrington Cleveland;Edwin van den Oord;David C. Rowe

  • Is Fertility Behavior in Our Genes? Findings from a Danish Twin Study

    Hans-Peter Kohler;Joseph L. Rodgers;Kaare Christensen

  • Smoking during pregnancy and offspring externalizing problems: An exploration of genetic and environmental confounds

    Brian M. D'Onofrio;Carol A. van Hulle;Irwin D. Waldman;Joseph Lee Rodgers

  • Temperament and Parenting during the First Year of Life Predict Future Child Conduct Problems

    Benjamin B. Lahey;Carol A. Van Hulle;Kate Keenan;Paul J. Rathouz

  • Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice

    John O. G. Billy;J. Richard Udry;Joseph Lee Rodgers

  • The Bootstrap, the Jackknife, and the Randomization Test: A Sampling Taxonomy

    Joseph Lee Rodgers

  • The Effect of No-Fault Divorce Law on the Divorce Rate across the 50 States and Its Relation to Income, Education, and Religiosity.

    Paul A. Nakonezny;Robert D. Shull;Joseph Lee Rodgers

  • Causal Inferences Regarding Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Childhood Externalizing Problems

    Brian M. D’Onofrio;Carol A. Van Hulle;Irwin D. Waldman;Joseph Lee Rodgers

  • Associations Between Father Absence and Age of First Sexual Intercourse

    Jane Mendle;K. Paige Harden;Eric Turkheimer;Carol A. Van Hulle

  • Testing descriptive hypotheses regarding sex differences in the development of conduct problems and delinquency

    Benjamin B. Lahey;Carol A. Van Hulle;Irwin D. Waldman;Joseph Lee Rodgers

  • Influence of siblings on adolescent sexual behavior.

    Joseph Lee Rodgers;David C. Rowe

  • Social contagion and adolescent sexual behavior: a developmental EMOSA model.

    Joseph L. Rodgers;David C. Rowe

  • Is parental knowledge of their adolescent offspring's whereabouts and peer associations spuriously associated with offspring delinquency?

    Benjamin B. Lahey;Carol A. Van Hulle;Brian M. D’Onofrio;Joseph Lee Rodgers

  • Herrnstein's syllogism: Genetic and shared environmental influences on IQ, education, and income.

    David C. Rowe;Wendy J. Vesterdal;Joseph L. Rodgers

  • Behavior genetic modeling of human fertility: findings from a contemporary Danish Twin Study.

    Joseph Lee Rodgers;Hans-Peter Kohler;Kirsten Ohm Kyvik;Kaare Christensen

  • A Multilevel Approach to the Relationship Between Birth Order and Intelligence

    Aaron L. Wichman;Joseph Lee Rodgers;Robert C. MacCallum

  • Sibling Delinquency and the Family Environment: Shared and Unshared Influences

    David C. Rowe;Joseph L. Rodgers;Sylvia Meseck-Bushey

  • Sexual Behavior and Nonsexual Deviance: A Sibling Study of Their Relationship.

    David C. Rowe;Joseph L. Rodgers;Sylvia Meseck-Bushey;Craig St. John

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Rowe
David C. Rowe University of Arizona
Carol A. Van Hulle
Carol A. Van Hulle University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian M. D’Onofrio
Brian M. D’Onofrio Indiana University
Benjamin B. Lahey
Benjamin B. Lahey University of Chicago
Irwin D. Waldman
Irwin D. Waldman Emory University
K. Paige Harden
K. Paige Harden The University of Texas at Austin
J. Richard Udry
J. Richard Udry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kate Keenan
Kate Keenan University of Chicago
Eric Turkheimer
Eric Turkheimer University of Virginia
Patrick E. Shrout
Patrick E. Shrout New York University

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