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)

Psychological Science

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 633-638

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOBANK; DEATH; HUMAN; NEUROSIS; PREMATURE MORTALITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; DEATH; HUMANS; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; NEUROTICISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85061995778     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797619833325     Document Type: Letter

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