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ArticlePsychological science2019

Conditioning on a Collider May or May Not Explain the Relationship Between Lower Neuroticism and Premature Mortality in the Study by Gale et al. (2017): A Reply to Richardson, Davey Smith, and Munafò (2019).

Alexander Weiss, Catharine R Gale, Iva Čukić, G David Batty, Andrew M McIntosh, Ian J Deary

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Article in Psychological science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Alexander Weiss1 Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.ORCID 0000-0002-9125-1555
Catharine R Gale1 Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.
Iva Čukić1 Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.
G David Batty1 Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.
Andrew M McIntosh1 Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.
Ian J Deary1 Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.

Funding

Healthy transitions from mid-life to early older age: biomedical follow-up of 1958 Birth Cohort Study members at age 60R01AG052519 · NIA · UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · PI BATTY, DAVID, GOODMAN, ALISSA · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
Healthy transitions from mid-life to early older age: biomedical follow-up of 1958 Birth Cohort Study members at age 60R56AG052519 · NIA · UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · PI BATTY, DAVID, GOODMAN, ALISSA · 2016 to 2016
$500k
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilChief Scientist Office CZD/16/6Medical Research Council MC_U147585819Medical Research Council MC_UU_12011/2Medical Research Council MC_UU_12013/6Medical Research Council MR/K025023/1Medical Research Council MR/K026992/1Medical Research Council MR/P023444/1Medical Research Council MR/S003886/1NIA NIH HHS R01 AG052519NIA NIH HHS R56 AG052519Wellcome Trust 104036
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Biological Specimen BanksMortality, PrematureDeathHumansNeuroticismUnited Kingdom

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PMID30794485
PMCPMC6472143

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