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Timothy C. Bates is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant number of publications dedicated to social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, developmental and educational psychology, and general health professions.

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

  • Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Reading and literacy development
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment
  • Social and intergroup psychology
  • Cultural differences and values
  • Behavioral health and interventions
  • Personality traits and psychology

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Big Five and HEXACO Personality Traits, Proenvironmental Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Testing the association of growth mindset and grades across a challenging transition: Is growth mindset associated with grades?" 2020, Intelligence
  • "Smart people know how the economy works: Cognitive ability, economic knowledge and financial literacy," 2022, Intelligence
  • "Remapping the foundations of morality: Well-fitting structural model of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire," 2021, PLoS ONE

Timothy C. Bates has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Michelle Luciano (15 joint works)
  • Nicholas G. Martin (11 joint works)
  • Simon E. Fisher (11 joint works)
  • Michael Zakharin (11 joint works)
  • Chien-An Lin (7 joint works)

The scientist's work has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Personality and Individual Differences (10 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (9 publications)
  • Intelligence (6 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • OpenMx: An Open Source Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework

    Steven Boker;Michael Neale;Hermine Maes;Michael Wilde

  • OpenMx 2.0: Extended Structural Equation and Statistical Modeling

    Michael C. Neale;Michael D. Hunter;Joshua N. Pritikin;Mahsa Zahery

  • Enduring Links From Childhood Mathematics and Reading Achievement to Adult Socioeconomic Status

    Stuart J. Ritchie;Timothy C. Bates

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

    Alexander Weiss;Timothy C. Bates;Michelle Luciano

  • Genetics of Intelligence

    Ian J Deary;Frank M Spinath;Timothy C Bates

  • Oral creatine monohydrate supplementation improves brain performance: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial.

    Caroline Rae;Alison L. Digney;Sally R. McEwan;Timothy C. Bates

  • Large Cross-National Differences in Gene × Socioeconomic Status Interaction on Intelligence

    Elliot M. Tucker-Drob;Timothy C. Bates

  • Is Education Associated With Improvements in General Cognitive Ability, or in Specific Skills?

    Stuart J. Ritchie;Timothy C. Bates;Ian J. Deary

  • Big Five and HEXACO Personality Traits, Proenvironmental Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis:

    Alistair Raymond Bryce Soutter;Timothy C. Bates;René Mõttus;René Mõttus

  • Confirmatory factor analysis of the three-factor structure of the schizotypal personality questionnaire and Chapman schizotypy scales.

    Viviana M. Wuthrich;Timothy C. Bates

  • The Nature of Nurture: Using a Virtual-Parent Design to Test Parenting Effects on Children's Educational Attainment in Genotyped Families.

    Timothy C. Bates;Brion S. Maher;Sarah E. Medland;Kerrie McAloney

  • Neural correlates of the ‘good life’: eudaimonic well-being is associated with insular cortex volume

    Gary J. Lewis;Ryota Kanai;Geraint Rees;Timothy C. Bates

  • From left to right: How the personality system allows basic traits to influence politics via characteristic moral adaptations

    Gary J. Lewis;Timothy C. Bates

  • Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people

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  • Genetic Variance in a Component of the Language Acquisition Device: ROBO1 Polymorphisms Associated with Phonological Buffer Deficits

    Timothy C. Bates;Michelle Luciano;Sarah E. Medland;Grant W. Montgomery

  • Facial width-to-height ratio predicts achievement drive in US presidents

    G.J. Lewis;C.E. Lefevre;Timothy Bates

  • umx: Twin and Path-Based Structural Equation Modeling in R.

    Timothy C Bates;Hermine H Maes;Michael C Neale

  • You can't change your basic ability, but you work at things, and that's how we get hard things done: Testing the role of growth mindset on response to setbacks, educational attainment, and cognitive ability.

    Yue Li;Timothy C. Bates

  • Genome‐wide screening for DNA variants associated with reading and language traits

    Alessandro Gialluisi;Dianne F. Newbury;Erik G. Wilcutt;Richard K. Olson

  • No evidence for sexual dimorphism of facial width-to-height ratio in four large adult samples

    Carmen E. Lefevre;Gary J. Lewis;Timothy C. Bates;Milena Dzhelyova

  • The ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM and Microcephalin is not explained by increased intelligence

    Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov;Danielle Posthuma;Sandra L. Gilbert;Penelope Lind

  • Music and spatial IQ

    Con Stough;Bridget Kerkin;Tim Bates;Gordon Mangan

  • Education is associated with higher later life IQ scores, but not with faster cognitive processing speed

    Stuart J Ritchie;Timothy C Bates;Geoff Der;John M Starr

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Michelle Luciano
Michelle Luciano University of Edinburgh
Margaret J. Wright
Margaret J. Wright University of Queensland
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
John M. Starr
John M. Starr University of Edinburgh
Con Stough
Con Stough Swinburne University of Technology
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Narelle K. Hansell
Narelle K. Hansell University of Queensland
Penelope A. Lind
Penelope A. Lind QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Alan J. Gow
Alan J. Gow Heriot-Watt University

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