Biography:Elliot Tucker-Drob
Elliot Tucker-Drob | |
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| Born | Elliot Max Tucker-Drob |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Cornell University University of Virginia |
| Spouse(s) | Kathryn Paige Harden (m. 2010–2017) Barbara Drob (m. 2021) |
| Children | 2[1] |
| Awards | Max Planck-Humboldt Medal (2019) Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship (2018–2020) Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2017) Janet Taylor Spence Award (2017) Fuller and Scott Award (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental psychology Behavioral genetics Statistical genetics |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
| Thesis | Global and Domain-Specific Longitudinal Cognitive Changes Throughout Adulthood (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Timothy Salthouse |
Elliot Max Tucker-Drob is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a faculty research associate at the Population Research Center and director of the Lifespan Development Lab. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Texas Twin Project. He is known for his research in the fields of developmental psychology, behavioral genetics, and statistical genetics.[2][3] This has included research on the effects of education and socioeconomic status on children's cognitive development and academic achievement; cognitive aging and dementia; the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders; and the development of Genomic Structural Equation Modelling, a statistical framework for the multivariate analysis of genome-wide association study data.[4][5][6]
References
- ↑ Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (6 September 2021). "Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?". The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters.
- ↑ "Elliot Tucker-Drob". https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/prc/directory/faculty/et5793.
- ↑ "People". https://labs.la.utexas.edu/tucker-drob/people/.
- ↑ Shellenbarger, Sue (2018-12-24). "The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter" (in en-US). Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-behind-making-your-child-smarter-11545660001.
- ↑ Jaffe, Eric (2015-12-18). "Poverty's Role in Intellectual Development" (in en). CityLab. http://www.citylab.com/work/2015/12/povertys-role-in-intellectual-development/420822/.
- ↑ Moyer, Melinda Wenner (2013-01-16). "If You Are Reading This Article, Your Kid Probably Doesn’t Need Preschool" (in en). Slate. https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/01/how-important-is-preschool-if-you-are-researching-early-education-philosophies-not-very.html.
External links
- Faculty page
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