Representative Publications

Human research interests

1. Weiss, A., Bates, T. C., & Luciano, M. (2008). Happiness is a personal(ity) thing: The genetics of personality and subjective well-being in a representative sample. Psychological Science, 19, 205-210.
2. Ironson, G. H., O’Cleirigh, C., Weiss, A., Schneiderman, N., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (2008). Personality and HIV disease progression: The role of NEO-PI-R Openness, Extraversion, and profiles of engagement. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 245-253.
3. Weiss, A., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (2005). Domain and facet personality predictors of all-cause mortality among Medicare patients aged 65 to 100. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 724-733.

Animal research interests

1. Weiss, A., King, J. E., & Hopkins, W. D. (2007). A Cross-setting study of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) personality structure and development: Zoological Parks and Yerkes National Primate Research Center. American Journal of Primatology. 69, 1264-1277.
2. Weiss, A., King, J. E., & Perkins, L. (2006). Personality and subjective well-being in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 501-511.
3. King, J. E., Weiss, A., & Farmer, K. H. (2005). A chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) analogue of cross-national generalization of personality structure: Zoological parks and an African sanctuary. Journal of Personality, 73, 389-410.