Elliot Tucker-Drob
Assistant Professor — Ph.D., University of Virginia
Contact
- E-mail: tuckerdrob@utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 232-4225
- Office: SEA 4.218
- Campus Mail Code: A8000
Biography
My research focuses on describing and explaining individual differences in psychological development throughout the life span. In other words, I am interested in how and why people proceed along different life trajectories. The majority of my current research seeks to clarify the developmental dynamics through which genes and social and educational experiences combine and interact to influence cognitive development, personality development, and academic achievement in infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
Selected Representative Publications (See lab site for full list of publications and PDF downloads)
Tucker-Drob, E. M., Briley, D. A., & Harden, K. P. (in press). Genetic and environmental influences on cognition across development and context. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Harden, K. P., Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Tackett, J. L. (in press). The Texas Twin Project. Twin Research and Human Genetics [Special Issue: Twin registers as a global resource for genetic research: An update]
Briley, D. A., & Tucker-Drob, E. M. (in press). Explaining the increasing heritability of cognition over development: A meta-analysis of longitudinal twin and adoption studies. Psychological Science.
Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Harden, K. P. (2013). Gene-by-preschool interaction on the development of early externalizing problems. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54, 77-85.
Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2012). Preschools reduce early academic achievement gaps: A longitudinal twin approach. Psychological Science, 23, 310-319.
Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Harden, K. P. (2012). Intellectual interest mediates gene-by-socioeconomic status interaction on adolescent academic achievement. Child Development, 83, 743-757.
Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Harden, K. P. (2012). Early childhood cognitive development and parental cognitive stimulation: Evidence for reciprocal gene-environment transactions. Developmental Science, 15, 250-259.
Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Harden, K. P. (2012). Learning motivation mediates gene-by-socioeconomic status interaction on early mathematics achievement. Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 37-45.
Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Briley, D. A. (2012). Socioeconomic status modifies interest-knowledge associations among adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 9-15.
Rhemtulla, M., & Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2012). Gene-by-socioeconomic status interaction on school readiness. Behavior Genetics, 42, 549-558.
Harden, K. P., Quinn, P. D., & Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2012). Genetically influenced changes in sensation seeking drive the rise of delinquent behavior in adolescence. Developmental Science, 15, 150-163.
Briley, D. A., & Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2012). Broad bandwidth or high fidelity? Evidence from the structure of genetic and environmental effects on the facets of the five factor model. Behavior Genetics 42, 743-763.
Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2011). Neurocognitive functions and everyday functions change together in old age. Neuropsychology, 25, 368-377.
Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2011). Individual differences methods for randomized experiments. Psychological Methods, 16, 298-318.
Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2011). Global and domain-specific changes in cognition throughout adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 47, 331-343.
Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Salthouse, T. A. (2011). Individual differences in cognitive aging. In Chamorro- Premuzic, T., von Stumm, S., & Furnham, A., (Eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences, First Edition.
Tucker-Drob, E. M., Rhemtulla, M., Harden, K. P., Turkheimer, E., & Fask, D. (2011). Emergence of a gene-by-socioeconomic status interaction on infant mental ability between 10 months to 2 years. Psychological Science, 22, 125-133. *Editor's Choice at Science.
Rhemtulla, M., & Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2011). Correlated longitudinal changes across linguistic, achievement, and psychomotor domains in early childhood: Evidence for a global dimension of development. Developmental Science, 14, 1245-1254.
Harden, K. P., & Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2011). Individual differences in the development of sensation seeking and impulsivity during adolescence: Further evidence for a dual systems model. Developmental Psychology, 47, 739-746.
