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  1. Weiss, A., & Bates, T. C. (2012). Welcome Clarity for Muddy Waters. European Journal of Personality.
  2. Lefevre, C. E., Lewis, G. J., Bates, T. C., Dzhelyova, M., Coetzee, V., Deary, I. J. and Perrett, D. I. (2012). No evidence for sexual dimorphism of facial width-to-height ratio in four large adult samples. Evolution and Human Behaviordoi]. link].

#Lewis, G. J., Lefevre, C. E. and Bates, T. C. (2012). Facial width-to-height ratio predicts achievement drive in US presidents. Personality and Individual Differences, 52. 855-857. doi. link.

  1. Bates, T. C. and Lewis, G. J. (2012). Towards a genetically informed approach in the social sciences: Strengths and an opportunity. Personality and Individual Differencesdoi. link].
  2. Archontaki, D., Lewis, G. J. and Bates, T. C. (2012). Genetic influences on psychological well-being: A nationally representative twin study. Journal of Personalitydoi. pubmed.
  3. Hope, D., Bates, T., Gow, A. J., Starr, J. M. and Deary, I. J. (2012). Minor physical anomalies, intelligence, and cognitive decline. Exp Aging Res, 38. 265-278. doi. link.
  1. Deary, I. J., Johnson, W., Gow, A. J., Pattie, A., Brett, C. E., Bates, T. C. and Starr, J. M. (2011). Losing One's Grip: A Bivariate Growth Curve Model of Grip Strength and Nonverbal Reasoning From Age 79 to 87 Years in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciencesdoi. pmid.
  2. Luciano, M., Montgomery, G. W., Martin, N. G., Wright, M. J. and Bates, T. C. (2011). SNP sets and reading ability: testing confirmation of a 10-SNP set in a population sample. Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies, 14. 228-232. doi. pmid.
  3. Hope, D., Bates, T., Penke, L., Gow, A. J., Starr, J. M. and Deary, I. J. (2011). Symmetry of the face in old age reflects childhood social status. Economics and human biology doi. pubmed (pdf).
  4. Lewis, G. J., & Bates, T. C. (2011). From Left to Right: How the personality system allows basic traits to influence politics via characteristic moral adaptations.British Journal of Psychology. ( pdf)
  5. Lewis, G. J. and Bates, T. C. (2011). A common heritable factor influences prosocial obligations across multiple domains. Biology Letters, 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1187 (pdf).
  6. Hope, D., Bates, T. C., Penke, L., Gow, A., Starr, J. M. and Deary, I. J. (2011). Fluctuating Asymmetry and Personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, doi 49-52.
  7. Bates, T. C., Luciano, M., Montgomery, G. W., Wright, M. J., & Martin, N. G. (2011). Genetic Variance in a Component of the Language Acquisition Device: ROBO1 polymorphisms associated with phonological buffer deficits. Behavior Genetics. (pdf)
  8. Brocklebank, S., Lewis, G.J., & Bates, T.C. (2011) Personality accounts for stable preferences and expectations across a range of simple games. Personality and Individual Differences. [doi (PDF)
  9. Lewis, G.J, Ritchie, S.J., & Bates, T.C. (2011) The relationship between intelligence and multiple domains of religious belief: Evidence from a large adult US sample. Intelligence. doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2011.08.002 (PDF)
  10. Boker, S., Neale, M. C., Maes, H., Wilde, M., Spiegel, M., Brick, T., Mehta, P, Bates, T.C and Fox, J (in-press). OpenMx: An Open Source Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework. Psychometrika
  11. Lewis, G. J. and Bates, T. C. (2010). Genetic Evidence for Multiple Biological Mechanisms Underlying Ingroup Favoritism. Psychological Science, 21, doi 1623-1628. pmid 20974715 ( pdf)
  12. Martin, N. W., Benyamin, B., Hansell, N. K., Montgomery, G. W., Martin, N. G., Wright, M. J. and Bates, T. C. (2011). Cognitive function in adolescence: testing for interactions between breast-feeding and FADS2 polymorphisms. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 50. 55-62 e54. doi. pmid.
  13. Lind, P. A., Luciano, M., Wright, M. J., Montgomery, G. W., Martin, N. G. and Bates, T. C. (2010). Dyslexia and DCDC2: normal variation in reading and spelling is associated with DCDC2 polymorphisms in an Australian population sample. Eur J Hum Genet, 10.1038/ejhg.2009.237.
  14. Understanding the neurobiological basis of intelligence. In Psychology: An Australian Perspective. 3rd edition. Drew Westen, Robin M. Kowalski, Lorelle J. Burton
  15. T C Bates, P A Lind, M Luciano, G W Montgomery, N G Martin, M J Wright (2009). Dyslexia and DYX1C1: deficits in reading and spelling associated with a missense mutation. Molecular Psychiatry doi:10.1038/mp.2009.120
  16. Bates, T. C., Price, J. F., Harris, S. E., Marioni, R. E., Fowkes, F. G., Stewart, M. C., Murray, G. D., Whalley, L. J., Starr, J. M. and Deary, I. J. (2009). Association of KIBRA and memory. Neurosci Lett, 458, [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2009.04.050 140-3.
  17. Bates, Timothy C. (2009). [http://www.subjectpool.com/ed_papers/2009/Intelligence_An_overview_of_cognitive_genetics.pdf Intelligence: An Overview, In [https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23_132_134&products_id=7537&osCsid=b The Life Span Development in Genetic Disorders. Annapia Verri (Ed.).
  18. Martin, N. W., Hansell, N. K., Wainwright, M. A., Shekar, S. N., Medland, S. E., Bates, T. C., Burt, J. S., Martin, N. G. and Wright, M. J. (2009). Genetic covariation between theAuthor Recognition Test and reading and verbal abilities: what can we learn from the analysis of high performance? Behav Genet, 39, [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10519-009-9275-y 417-26.
  19. Penke, L., Bates, T. C., Gow, A. J., Pattie, A., Starr, J. M., Jones, B. C., Perrett, D. I. and Deary, I. J. (2009). Symmetric faces are a sign of successful cognitive aging. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, [http://www.larspenke.eu/pdfs/Penke_et_al_2009_-_Facial_symmetry_and_cognitive_aging.pdf 429-437. This study received worldwide media coverage.
  20. Gignac, G. E., Jang, K. L. and Bates, T. C. (2009). Construct redundancy within the Five-Factor Model as measured by the NEO PI-R: Implications for emotional intelligence and incremental coherence. Psychology Science Quarterly, 51, <a 76-86.
  21. Luciano, M., Miyajima, F., Lind, P. A., Bates, T. C., Horan, M., Harris, S. E., Wright, M. J., Ollier, W. E., Hayward, C., Pendleton, N., Gow, A. J., Visscher, P. M., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J., Martin, N. G. and Payton, A. (2009). Variation in the dysbindin gene and normal cognitive function in three independent population samples. Genes Brain Behav, 8, [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-183X.2008.00462.x 218-27.
  22. Lind, P. A., Luciano, M., Horan, M. A., Marioni, R. E., Wright, M. J., Bates, T. C., Rabbitt, P., Harris, S. E., Davidson, Y., Deary, I. J., Gibbons, L., Pickles, A., Ollier, W., Pendleton, N., Price, J. F., Payton, A. and Martin, N. G. (2009). No Association Between Cholinergic Muscarinic Receptor 2 (CHRM2) Genetic Variation and Cognitive Abilities in Three Independent Samples. Behav Genetics, doi.
  23. Starr, J, Pattie, A, Gow, A., and Bates, T.C. Deary, I.J. (2009) Height and intelligence in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921: a longitudinal study, Age and Aging (2009)
  24. Weiss, Alexander, Bates, Timothy C. and Luciano, Michelle. (2008). Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing: The Genetics of Personality and Well-Being in a Representative Sample. Psychological Science. 205–210.
  25. Hughes, L. E., Bates, T. C. and Aimola Davies, A. M. (2008). Dissociations in rod bisection: the effect of viewing conditions on perception and action. Cortex, 44, 1279-87 doi.
  26. Bates, T. C. (2008). Current Genetic Discoveries and Education: Strengths, Opportunities, and Limitations. Mind Brain and Education. 2(2):[http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-228X.2008.00035.x 74-79([http://www.subjectpool.com/ed_papers/2008/Bates2008Mind_Brain_Education.pdf pdf here).
  27. Bates, T. C., Luciano, M., Lind, P. A., Wright, M., Montgomery, G. W., & Martin, N. G. (2008). Recently-derived Variants of Brain-size Genes ASPM, MCPH1, CDK5RAP and BRCA1 not Associated with General Cognition, Reading or Language. Intelligence, 36, 689–693.
  28. Bates Timothy C. (2008). [http://www.subjectpool.com/ed_papers/2008/Review_Plomin2008_Behavior_Genetics_5th_edition.pdf Behavior_Genetics_5th_edition, Plomin 2008. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aap/twg Twin Research and Human Genetics.
  29. Luciano M, Lind PA, Deary IJ, Payton A, Posthuma D, Butcher LM et al. (2008). Testing replication of a 5-SNP set for general cognitive ability in six population samples. Eur J Hum Genet Aug; 16(8): pmid, 1025.
  30. Luciano, Michelle, Wright, Margaret J., and Bates, Timothy C. (2008). Response to Robinson, Personality and Individual Differences, 44(3):777-779. (doi). ([resources/mypapers/2006/robinsonreply.pdf])
  31. Bates, T. C., Luciano, M., Castles, A., Wright, M., Coltheart, M., & Martin, N. G. (2007). [resources/mypapers/2006/Bates2006EJHGlinkage.pdf Replication of reported linkages for Dyslexia and Spelling and suggestive evidence for novel regions on chromosomes 4 and 17.. European Journal of Human Genetics, 15(2):194-203.(Impact >4.9)
  32. Luciano, M., Castles, A., Wright, M., Coltheart, M., Montgomery, G., Martin, N. G. & Bates, T. C., (2007). [http://www.subjectpool.com/ed_papers/2007/Luciano2007biol_psychiaty.pdf A Haplotype Spanning KIAA0319 and TTRAP Is Associated with Normal Variation in Reading and Spelling Ability.. Biological Psychiatry, doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.03.007. (Impact >6.8)
  33. Mekel-Bobrov, N., Posthuma, D., Gilbert, S. L., Lind, P., Gosso, M. F., Luciano, M., et al. (2007). The ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM and Microcephalin is not explained by increased intelligence. Human Molecular Genetics, doi:10.1093/hmg/ddl487 16(6):600-608. (Impact > 7.76)
  34. Deary, I. J., Irwing, P., Der, G., & Bates, T. C. (2007). Brother-sister differences in the g factor in intelligence: analysis of full, opposite-sex siblings from the NLSY1979. // Intelligence.35: 451 – 456 ([http://www.subjectpool.com/ed_papers/2007/Deary2007Intelligence451-456_Brother_sister_sex_differences.pdf pdf)
  35. Bates,Timothy C. (2007). Out of the Armchair. //European Journal of Personality DOI:10.1002/per doi.646.
  36. Haslam, Nick (and Bates, T.C.) (2007). Introduction to Personality (Sage Foundations of Psychology), SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-0761960584. (amz)
  37. Gignac, G. E., Bates, T. C. and Jang, K. L. (2007). Implications relevant to CFA model misfit, reliability, and the five-factor model as measured by the NEO-FFI. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, <a 1051-1062.
  38. Wuthrich, V. & Bates, T.C. (2006) Confirmatory factor analysis of the three-factor structure of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire and Chapman schizotypy scales. Journal of Personality Assessment, 87(3), 292-304.
  39. Bates, T. C. (2007). Fluctuating Asymmetry and Intelligence. Intelligence, 35: 41-46. (pdf).
  40. Deary, I.J., Spinath, F. & Bates, T. C. (2006). [resources/mypapers/2006/Deary2006EJHG690-700.pdf Genes and Intelligence. European Journal of Human Genetics, 14, 690-700.(2005 impact factor 3.251* 46/124 Genetics and Heredity, Thomson 2006)
  41. Gignac, G. E., Palmer, B., Bates, T. and Stough, C. (2006). Differences in confirmatory factor analysis model close-fit index estimates obtained from AMOS 4.0 and AMOS 5.0 via full information maximum likelihood no imputation: Corrections and extension to Palmer et al. (2003). Australian Journal of Psychology, 58, <a 144-150.
  42. Bates, T. C. (2006). [resources/mypapers/2006/Bates2006LREd31-47.pdf Genes for reading and writing. London Review of Education , 4: 31-47.
  43. Castles, A., Bates, T. C., & Coltheart, M. (2006). John Marshall and the developmental dyslexias. Aphasiology, 20, 871-892.
  44. Castles, A, Bates, T, Coltheart, M, Wright, M & Martin, N. (2006). [http://www.subjectpool.com/ed_papers/2006/castles_bates_2006_journalOfResearchInReading.pdf Cognitive modelling and the behaviour genetics of reading. Journal of Research in Reading, 29:92-103.
  45. Bates, T. C., Luciano, M., Castles, A., Wright, M., Coltheart, M., & Martin, N. G. (2006).[resources/mypapers/2006/bates2006ReadingAndWriting1-25.pdf Genetic and environmental bases of reading and spelling: A unified dual-route genetic model. Reading and Writing. 1-25
  46. Hughes LE, Bates TC, Aimola Davies AM. (2005). [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16019116&query_hl=7&itool=pubmed_docsum The effects of local and global processing demands on perception and action. Brain Cogn. 59(1):71-81.
  47. Wuthrich, V., & Bates, T. C. (2005). Reliability and validity of two Likert versions of the schizotypal personality questionnaire (SPQ). Personality & Individual Differences, 38(7), 1543-1548.
  48. Bates, T. C. (2005). [resources/mypapers/2005/Bates2005PAID115-127.pdf Auditory inspection time and intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 38(1), 115-127.
  49. Bates, T. C. (2005). [resources/mypapers/2005/Bates2005PAID437-449.pdf The panmodal sensory imprecision hypothesis of schizophrenia: Reduced auditory precision in schizotypy. Personality & Individual Differences, 38, 437-449.
  50. Hughes, L. E., Bates, T. C., & Aimola Davies, A. (2004). [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15221169&query_hl=7&itool=pubmed_docsum Grasping at sticks: Pseudoneglect for perception but not action. Exp Brain Res, 157(3), 397-402.
  51. Bates, T. C., & Rock, A. (2004). Extraversion and processing speed: Separable influence on intelligent behaviour. Intelligence, 32, 33-46.
  52. Bates, T. C., Castles, A., Coltheart, M., Luciano, M., Gillespie, N., Wright, M., et al. (2004). Genetics of reading and spelling: Shared genes across modalities, but different genes for lexical and nonlexical processing., Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  53. Bates, T. C., Castles, A., Coltheart, M., Gillespie, N., Wright, M., & Martin, N. G. (2004). Behaviour genetic analyses of reading and spelling: A component processes approach. Australian Journal of Psychology, 56(2), 115-126. ([resources/mypapers/2004/Bates2004AJP115-126.pdf pdf])
  54. Bates, T. C. (2004). Emerging models of intelligence. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 1-2.
  55. Bates, T. C., & Shieles, A. (2003). Crystallized intelligence as a product of speed and drive for experience: The relationship of inspection time and openness to g and gc. Intelligence, 31(3), 275-287.
  56. Bates, T. C., & D'Oliveiro, L. (2003). Psyscript: A macintosh application for scripting experiments. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 35(4), 565-576.
  57. Palmer, B., Gignac, G., Bates, T. and Stough, C. (2003). Examining the structure of the trait meta-mood scale. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55, <a 154-158.
  58. Rae, C., Digney, A. L., McEwan, S. R., & Bates, T. C. (2003). Oral creatine monohydrate supplementation improves brain performance: A double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Series B: Biological Sciences, 270(1529), 2147-2150.
  59. Maguire, A. M., Bates, T. C., Boycott, N., & Corballis, M. C. (2002). Effects of object asymmetry on visual attention. Brain & Cognition, 48, 456-462.
  60. Wuthrich, V., & Bates, T. C. (2001). Schizotypy & latent inhibition: Non-linear linkage between psychometric and cognitive markers. Personality & Individual Differences, 30, pdf 783-798.
  61. Stough, C. K., Thompson, J. C., Bates, T. C., & Nathan, P. (2001). Examining neurochemical determinants of inspection time: Development of a biological model. Intelligence 29, 511-522.
  62. Stough, C., Bates, T. C., Mangan, G. L., & Colrain, I. (2001). Inspection time and intelligence: Further attempts to eliminate the apparent movement strategy. Intelligence, 29, 219-230.
  63. Bates, T. C., & Stough, C. (2000). Intelligence arguments and australian psychology: A reply to stankov and an alternative view. Australian Psychologist, 35, 68-72.
  64. Bates, T. C., & D'Oliveiro, L. (2000, Sunday, June 25, 2000). Psyscript.&nbsp; 4. Retrieved Sunday, June 25, 2000, 2000, from http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/~tim/psyscript/
  65. Stough, C. K., Bates, T. C., Nathan, P., & Thompson, J. (1999). The role of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in inspection time. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 9 ((supp5)), S356.
  66. Bates, T. C., & Stough, C. (1998). Improved reaction time method, information processing speed, and intelligence. Intelligence, 26(1), 53-62.
  67. Bates, T. C., & Stough, C. (1997). Processing speed, attention, and intelligence: Effects of spatial attention on decisions time in high and low iq subjects. Personality & Individual Differences, 23(5), 861-868.
  68. Stough, C., Brebner, J., Nettelbeck, T., Cooper, C. J., Bates, T. C., & Mangan, G. L. (1996). The relationship between intelligence, personality and inspection time. British Journal of Psychology, 87(Part 2), 255-268.
  69. Stough, C., Nettelbeck, T., Cooper, C., & Bates, T. C. (1995). Strategy use in jensen's rt paradigm: Relationships to intelligence? Australian Journal of Psychology, 47(2), 61-65.
  70. Stough, C., Mangan, G., Bates, T. C., Frank, N., Kerkin, B., & Pellett, O. (1995). Effects of nicotine on perceptual speed. Psychopharmacology, 119, 305-310.
  71. Stough, C., Mangan, G., Bates, T. C., Frank, N., & et al. (1995). Effects of nicotine on perceptual speed. Psychopharmacology, 119(3), 305-310.
  72. Stough, C., Bates, T. C., Mangan, G. L., & Pellett, O. L. (1995). Smoking, string length and intelligence. Personality & Individual Differences, 18(1), 75-79.
  73. Bates, T. C., Stough, C., Mangan, G., & Pellett, O. (1995). Intelligence and complexity of the averaged evoked potential: An attentional theory. Intelligence, 20(1), 27-39.
  74. Bates, T. C., Stough, C., Mangan, G., & Pellett, O. (1995). Intelligence and complexity of the averaged evoked potential - an attentional theory. Intelligence, 20(1), 27-39.
  75. Bates, T. C., Mangan, G., Stough, C., & Corballis, P. (1995). Smoking, processing speed and attention in a choice reaction time task. Psychopharmacology, 120(2), 209-212.
  76. Stough, C., Mangan, G., Bates, T. C., & Pellett, O. (1994). Smoking and raven iq. Psychopharmacology, 116(3), 382-384.
  77. Stough, C., Kerkin, B., Bates, T. C., & Mangan, G. (1994). Music and spatial iq. Personality & Individual Differences, 17(5), 695.
  78. Coltheart, M., Bates, A., & Castles, A. (1994). Cognitive neuropsychology and rehabilitation. In M. J. Riddoch, G. W. Humphreys & et al. (Eds.), Cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive rehabilitation. (pp. 17-37). Hove, England UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
  79. Bates, T. C., Pellett, O., Stough, C., & Mangan, G. L. (1994). Effects of smoking on simple and choice reaction time. Psychopharmacology, 114(2), 365-368.
  80. Bates, T. C., & Eysenck, H. J. (1994). A comparison of the information processing rates of non-smokers and cigarette-deprived smokers. Personality and Individual Differences, 17(6), 855-858.
  81. Mangan, G. L., Pellett, O., Colrain, I. M., & Bates, T. C. (1993). Photic driving and personality. Personality & Individual Differences, 15(3), 329-340.
  82. Bates, T. C., & Eysenck, H. J. (1993). String length, attention & intelligence: Focused attention reverses the string length-iq relationship. Personality and Individual Differences, 15(4), 363-371.
  83. Bates, T. C., & Eysenck, H. J. (1993). Intelligence, inspection time, and decision time. Intelligence, 17(4), 523-531.
  84. Colrain, I. M., Mangan, G. L., Pellett, O. L., & Bates, T. C. (1992). Effects of post-learning smoking on memory consolidation. Psychopharmacology, 108(4), 448-451.
  85. Bates, T. C. (1991). A macintosh II psychophysiology system. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 23(3), 395-402.

Recent Grants

  1. Bates, T. C. and Deary, I. J. (2010). Novel assessment of 5HTTLPR variation: Associations with cognition and emotion. £1,800
  2. Bates, T. C. (2010) Developing OpenMx Tutorials for CCACE £800.
  3. Deary, I. J., Bates, T. C., Starr, J. M., & Gow, A. Testing the common cause hypothesis of cognitive ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921. Scottish Executive: Health Department, Chief Scientist Office. £175,327. June 2007-December 2009. (Ref. CZB/4/505.)
  4. Bates, T. C. Translational research: Association of DYX1 & DYX5 to dyslexia. Scottish Executive: Health Department, Chief Scientist Office. £64,500. Dec-2007-June 2007
  5. Bates, T. C. International Visit: Normal effects of genes related to Dyslexia. Royal Society of Edinburgh £2,700

Invited Lectures, Talks, Proceedings (since 2006)

2012

  1. Bates, T. C. (2012). Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement. Journaldoi]. link.
  2. Bates, T. C. (19th April, 2012). A collaborative resource for Social Science Research. British Society for Personality and Individual Differences.

2011

  1. "Theory-driven behavior genetics". Invited talk in symposium "Recent behavioral genetic contributions to individual differences research", July 27, 2011, International Society for the Study of Individual Differences
  2. Increased explanatory power using mediated effects of personality on behavior: Examples from coalition affiliation and wellbeing. Prof Tim Bates. July 27, 2011, International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.Heritabilities for personality are typically below .5 and effect sizes on behaviour often smaller again. One explanation for this lies in the personality systems model, which recognizes both personality and behaviour, but interposes a middle layer containing values, beliefs, and habits, and where multiple highly heritable biological processes can interact with environmental cues to determine behavior. In this talk, analogies are make from modestly heritable physiological measures such as blood pressure with weak links to behavior, and highly heritable biological structures such as haemoglobin binding efficiency. Two examples applying the systems model to large datasets are then presented: one examining coalition political behaviour and the other wellbeing traits. Support is found for both increasing effect sizes and heritabilities in this systems model.
  3. Symposium Convenor.Shedding new light on old values: Behaviour Genetics and Moral Virtues
  • Contributors: Tom Bouchard, Gary J. Lewis, and Timothy C. Bates. BGA 2011, Rhode Island, 5-9 June, 2011.
  1. The study of value traits such as religiosity has a long history in behaviour genetics and biology. Recent interest in understanding the origins and brain mechanisms of differences in values has reinvigorated this area. In particular the positive selective value of traits like conservatism Bouchard argues that authoritarianism, religion, and conservatism are linked by a common thread of obedience to authority, and that this in turn reflects a higher-order construct of “Traditionalism”. Implications of this view for evolutionary models of religion are discussed. Lewis and Bates present new data on the genetics of religion. A componential view is taken, which distinguishes personal importance of religion and doctrinal literalism facets of religion. A series of models are then presented, testing whether these aspects of religion are explained by more general mechanisms such as anxiety, need for meaning and need for community. Bates and Lewis present data on altruism in the domains of work, civil-life, and welfare-concern for others. Sex differences, and evidence for separable mechanisms between these domains of are related to plausible evolutionary models for altruism including reciprocal altruism, selective investment theory, sexual selection, and reciprocity. Discussion will follow.
  2. Altruism or altruisms? Kindness across sex and in three social domains. BGA 2011, Rhode Island, 5-9 June, 2011
  1. 2010
  2. Increased explanatory power using mediated effects of personality on behavior: Examples from coalition affiliation and wellbeing. Prof Tim Bates. July 27, 2011, International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.
  1. Research on the biological basis of intelligence Convenors Prof Con Stough and Prof Tim Bates. Symposium at ISIR Meeting. Washington DC December 2010.
  2. Timothy C. Bates, David Hope, Alan J. Gow, Alison Pattie, John M. Starr, Ian J. Deary. (2010. Fluctuating Asymmetry, Developmental Precision and Intelligence. Symposium presentation at ISIR Meeting. Washington DC December 2010.
  3. Bates, T.C. (2010). Fluctuating asymmetry associated with cognition across 76 years: The Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 study. Talk given at the 5th Conference of Epidemiological Longitudinal Studies in Europe ([http://www.celse.eu/ CELSE), Paphos, Cyprus, October 13-15, 2010.
  4. Bates, T.C. (2010). Genetic Neuropsychology: Using genes to unpick neurocognition. Invited talk at National Collaborative Centre for Neurocognition ([http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ NICM ), Melbourne, Australia, August 19, 2010.
  5. Bates, T.C. (2010). Genes for the Human Language Acquisition Device: How ROBO1 builds your phonological buffer. Invited talk at Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science ([http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ MACCS), Sydney, Australia, August 17, 2010.
  6. Bates, T.C., Martin, N, Benyamin, B., Hansell, N.K., Martin, N.G., Wright, M.J. (2009). On the unlikelihood of gene-by-environment interactions without main effects: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADS2 FADS2, Breastfeeding and IQ. Paper presentation at the [http://isironline.org/" >International Society of Intelligence Research , December 16-19 2009, Madrid, Spain.
  7. Bates (2009). Inside Out: Can endophenotypes help, if what we want to find is genes for phenotypes? Invited Plenary Lecture at the 9th Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Meeting, 6 November 2009. Bremen, Germany.<br>
  • Abstract: Endophenotypes are often advanced as tools to help in discovery of the genetic bases of phenotypes such as schizophrenia or dyslexia. Talk often proceeds as if endo-phenotypes must exist for all disorders, and that they will appear at a measurement level and scale suiting current imaging techniques, rather than either above this level (in psychometric traits) or below this level (cell adhesion molecules etc.). In this talk, the possibility is raised that endophenotypes need not necessarily exit at this intermediate imaging-level for many, perhaps most traits. And that where they do, they may better conceived of as reflecting a need to re-specify the phenotype. In making this argument, the criteria for an endophenotype are first briefly outlined, highlighting the very strong constraints that must be satisfied for endophenotype status. The following are then discussed: Can these criteria be met? If so what kinds of traits will meet the criteria? Questions posed include: Can we prove that a phenotype is an endophenotype (i.e., meets the criteria of an endophenotype rather than candidate-endophenotype), prior to having discovered its genetic architecture? The implications of genetic simplicity and penetrance being entailed in the definition of an endophenotype are explored. Logical problems are raised, including genes affecting an endophenotype but which lack any association with the target phenotype. In conclusion, the idea is explored that, typically, the appropriate phenotype for a disorder or normally-varying trait is the disorder or trait-score itself.
  1. Timothy C. Bates (2009). Language impairment, Working memory, and dyslexia: Distinct mental modules or recycled cognitive resources? 39th Annual meeting of the [http://www.bga.org/" >Behavior Genetics Association, 17-20 June 2009. Minneapolis Minnesota, USA.
  2. Timothy C. Bates (2009). Symposium: Cognition and Modularity. Organized for the 39th Annual meeting of the [http://www.bga.org/" >Behavior Genetics Association, 17-20 June 2009. Minneapolis Minnesota, USA.
  3. Timothy C. Bates (2008). Testing the Social Intelligence Hypothesis of Human brain evolution. Behavior Genetics Association, 25-28 June 2008. Louiseville KT, USA.
  4. Bates, T.C., M. Luciano, P. Lind, M Wright, G Montgomery, N. Martin (2007). [#Bates2007ISPG Genetic Influences on Dyslexia: Support for DYX1C1 and DCDC2. [http://www.ispg.net/ World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics 7-11 October, 2007 New York City.
  5. Bates, T. C., Luciano, M., Wright, M. J., & Martin, N. G. (2007). [http://www.subjectpool.com/ed_papers/2007/conferences/Stavanger_2007/Bates_abstract_Stavanger_Conference_2007.pdf Dyslexia and specific language impairment: Genetic similarities and differences. Paper presented at the [http://lesesenteret.uis.no/article.php?articleID=5823" title="First Stavanger Reading and Writing Conference" >First Stavanger Reading and Writing Conference, 30 August 2007—2 September 2007
  6. Bates, T. C., Luciano, M., Castles, A., Wright, M. J., & Martin, N. G. (2007). [http://www.subjectpool.com/ed_papers/2007/conferences/SSSR_2007_Prague/SSSR_2007_SLI_abstract.pdf Genetic Architecture of Language: Phonological and Lexical Storage Capacity Deficits In Specific Language Impairment & Dyslexia. Poster presented at 2007 SSSR, 30 August 2007—2 September 2007
  7. Luciano M, Lind P, Duffy D et al. A haplotype spanning KIAA0319 and TTRAP is associated with normal variation in reading ability; in: John KH (ed): Behavior Genetics Association 37th Annual Meeting. Amsterdam, 2007, vol 37.
  8. Bates TC, Luciano M, Wright MJ, Montgomery GW, Martin NG. Heritability of phonological storage deficits related to Specific language Impairment in reading ability; in: John KH (ed): Behavior Genetics Association 37th Annual Meeting. Amsterdam, 2007, vol 37.
  9. Weiss A, Bates TC, Luciano M. [#wellbeing Heritability of subjective wellbeing in a representative sample in: John KH (ed): Behavior Genetics Association 36th Annual Meeting. Storrs Connecticut, 2006, vol 36, pp 952-990.
  10. Bates TC, Castles A, Luciano M, Wright MJ, Coltheart M, Martin NG. [#normalreading Genetic bases of normal reading; in: John KH (ed): Behavior Genetics Association 36th Annual Meeting. Storrs Connecticut, 2006, vol 36, pp 952-990.
  11. Genetic Influences on Dyslexia: Support for DYX1C1 and DCDC2. World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics 7-11 October, 2007 New York City
  12. Wellbeing Heritability of subjective well-being in a representative sample
  13. Genetic bases of normal reading
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