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Elliot Tucker-Drob

Elliot Tucker-Drob

American psychologist


Elliot Max Tucker-Drob is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a Professor of Psychiatry, a faculty research associate at the Population Research Center, a faculty research associate at the Center for Aging and Population Studies, 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, cognitive aging, behavioral genetics, and statistical genetics.[4][5] 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.[6][7][8]

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  1. "Elliot Tucker-Drob". UT College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. "People". Lifespan Development Lab. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  3. Shellenbarger, Sue (2018-12-24). "The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  4. Jaffe, Eric (2015-12-18). "Poverty's Role in Intellectual Development". CityLab. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  5. Moyer, Melinda Wenner (2013-01-16). "If You Are Reading This Article, Your Kid Probably Doesn't Need Preschool". Slate. Retrieved 2019-05-24.



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