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Alexander Weiss
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 146
Citations - 6207
Alexander Weiss is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Big Five personality traits. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 140 publications receiving 5539 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander Weiss include Institute for the Study of Labor & National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.
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Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Illness and Death: How Researchers in Differential Psychology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology Are Collaborating to Understand and Address Health Inequalities
TL;DR: This monograph describes research findings linking intelligence and personality traits with health outcomes, including health behaviors, morbidity, and mortality, and provides an overview of major and recent research on the associations.
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Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing The Genetics of Personality and Well-Being in a Representative Sample
TL;DR: Findings indicate that subjective well-being is linked to personality by common genes and that personality may form an “affective reserve” relevant to set-point maintenance and changes in set point over time.
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Domain and facet personality predictors of all-cause mortality among Medicare patients aged 65 to 100.
Alexander Weiss,Paul T. Costa +1 more
TL;DR: This study indicates that, in a sample of older, frail participants, high Neuroticism and Agreeableness scores are protective and that more specific effects are primarily the result of the Impulsiveness and Straightforwardness facet scales.
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Neuroticism, extraversion, and mortality in the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey: a 21-year prospective cohort study.
TL;DR: High neuroticism was significantly related to risk of death from cardiovascular disease, and may be mediated by sociodemographic, health behavior, and physiological factors.
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Personality and subjective well-being in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii).
TL;DR: Findings suggest that analogues of human, chimpanzee, and orangutan personality domains existed in a common ape ancestor.