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Overview

Nicholas A. Turiano is affiliated with West Virginia University in the United States. Their research spans primarily across psychology and medicine, with a significant focus on clinical psychology and health-related subfields.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics, including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Personality traits and psychology
  • Psychological well-being and life satisfaction
  • Mental health research topics
  • Behavioral health and interventions
  • Optimism, hope, and well-being
  • Aging and gerontology research

Turiano's recent papers illustrate a strong emphasis on personality and health outcomes, psychological well-being, and mortality risk factors. Notable publications include:

  • Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples (2020), European Journal of Personality
  • Is Healthy Neuroticism Associated with Health Behaviors? A Coordinated Integrative Data Analysis (2020), Collabra Psychology
  • Positive Affect Is Associated With Less Memory Decline: Evidence From a 9-Year Longitudinal Study (2020), Psychological Science
  • Personality pathways to mortality: Interleukin-6 links conscientiousness to mortality risk (2021), Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Internalizing psychopathology and all-cause mortality: a comparison of transdiagnostic vs. diagnosis-based risk prediction (2021), World Psychiatry

Their frequent collaborators reflect ongoing partnerships in the psychological sciences. These coauthors include:

  • Daniel K. Mroczek
  • Eileen K Graham
  • Denis Gerstorf
  • Páraic S. O'Súilleabháin
  • Jacob Alderson

Turiano's work is published across several recurring academic journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • Collabra Psychology
  • Psychological Science
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Aging & Mental Health

The scientist's main fields of study are centered on psychology, with 73 publications, and medicine with 28 publications. Subfields of their research include clinical psychology, health, applied psychology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Best Publications

  • Purpose in Life as a Predictor of Mortality Across Adulthood

    Patrick L. Hill;Nicholas A. Turiano

  • Personality Trait Level and Change as Predictors of Health Outcomes: Findings From a National Study of Americans (MIDUS)

    Nicholas A. Turiano;Lindsay Pitzer;Cherie Armour;Arun Karlamangla

  • Personality and Substance Use in Midlife: Conscientiousness as a Moderator and the Effects of Trait Change.

    Nicholas A. Turiano;Shawn D. Whiteman;Sarah E. Hampson;Brent W. Roberts

  • Personality predicts mortality risk: An integrative data analysis of 15 international longitudinal studies

    Eileen Kranz Graham;Joshua P. Rutsohn;Nicholas A. Turiano;Rebecca Bendayan

  • Big 5 personality traits and interleukin-6: evidence for "healthy Neuroticism" in a US population sample.

    Nicholas A. Turiano;Daniel K. Mroczek;Jan Moynihan;Benjamin P. Chapman

  • Emotional Reactivity and Mortality: Longitudinal Findings From the VA Normative Aging Study

    Daniel K. Mroczek;Daniel K. Mroczek;Robert S. Stawski;Nicholas A. Turiano;Wai Chan

  • Personality and the Leading Behavioral Contributors of Mortality

    Nicholas A. Turiano;Benjamin P. Chapman;Tara L. Gruenewald;Daniel K. Mroczek

  • Do health behaviors explain the effect of neuroticism on mortality? Longitudinal findings from the VA Normative Aging Study

    Daniel K. Mroczek;Avron Spiro;Avron Spiro;Nicholas A. Turiano

  • Personality and stressor-related affect.

    Kate A. Leger;Susan T. Charles;Nicholas A. Turiano;David M. Almeida

  • Perceived control reduces mortality risk at low, not high, education levels.

    Nicholas A. Turiano;Benjamin P. Chapman;Stefan Agrigoroaei;Frank J. Infurna

  • Sense of Purpose Moderates the Associations Between Daily Stressors and Daily Well-being.

    Patrick L Hill;Nancy L Sin;Nancy L Sin;Nicholas A Turiano;Anthony L Burrow

  • Purpose in life and cognitive functioning in adulthood

    Nathan A Lewis;Nicholas A Turiano;Brennan R Payne;Patrick L Hill

  • Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples

    Eileen K. Graham;Sara J. Weston;Denis Gerstorf;Denis Gerstorf;Tomiko B. Yoneda

  • Association of Reports of Childhood Abuse and All-Cause Mortality Rates in Women.

    Edith Chen;Nicholas A. Turiano;Daniel K. Mroczek;Gregory E. Miller

  • Conscientiousness and longevity: an examination of possible mediators.

    Patrick L. Hill;Nicholas A. Turiano;Michael D. Hurd;Daniel K. Mroczek

  • Examining Concurrent and Longitudinal Relations Between Personality Traits and Social Well-being in Adulthood.

    Patrick L. Hill;Nicholas A. Turiano;Daniel K. Mroczek;Brent W. Roberts

  • The value of a purposeful life: Sense of purpose predicts greater income and net worth

    Patrick L. Hill;Nicholas A. Turiano;Daniel K. Mroczek;Anthony L. Burrow

  • Affective reactivity to daily stress and 20-year mortality risk in adults with chronic illness: Findings from the National Study of Daily Experiences.

    Jessica J. Chiang;Nicholas A. Turiano;Daniel K. Mroczek;Gregory E. Miller

  • Openness to Experience and Mortality in Men Analysis of Trait and Facets

    Nicholas A. Turiano;Avron Spiro;Daniel K. Mroczek

  • Effectiveness of Telephone-Based Referral Care Management, a Brief Intervention to Improve Psychiatric Treatment Engagement

    Faika Zanjani;Bree Miller;B.A. Nicholas Turiano;Jennifer Ross

  • Parental Warmth during Childhood Predicts Coping and Well-being in Adulthood

    Karena M. Moran;Nicholas A. Turiano;Amy L. Gentzler

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel K. Mroczek
Daniel K. Mroczek Northwestern University
Avron Spiro
Avron Spiro Boston University
Patrick L. Hill
Patrick L. Hill Washington University in St. Louis
Denis Gerstorf
Denis Gerstorf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
K. Warner Schaie
K. Warner Schaie University of Washington
Benjamin P. Chapman
Benjamin P. Chapman University of Rochester Medical Center
Andrea M. Piccinin
Andrea M. Piccinin University of Victoria
Scott M. Hofer
Scott M. Hofer University of Victoria
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Margaret J. Wright
Margaret J. Wright University of Queensland

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