Most broadly, my research addresses the questions of how and why different people progress along different life trajectories. My research on infant, child, and adolescent development primarily focuses on how social and educational experiences interact with individual genetic proclivities and potentials to impact cognitive development, academic achievement, and personality over time. My research on adult aging is primarily concerned with the predictors, patterns, and consequences of individual variation in normative aging-associated cognitive declines. Towards these ends, I construct, evaluate, and apply a variety of multivariate quantitative methods for cross-sectional, longitudinal, and family data.
Selected Representative Publications:
Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Briley, D. A. (in press). Socioeconomic status modifies interest-knowledge associations among adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences.
Rhemtulla, M. & Tucker-Drob, E. M. (in press). Gene-by-socioeconomic status interaction on school readiness. Behavior Genetics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
