2026
More than general intelligence: Cognitive abilities and class structure
Intelligence & Cognitive Abilities. Published online July 1, 2026.
Differential psychology & behavioral genetics
Tobias Edwards, PhD
About
Quantitative research on why people differ.
My research combines behavioral genetic and psychometric methods to investigate the causes and consequences of psychological variation.
I completed my PhD in Behavioral Genetics at the University of Minnesota in 2026. My dissertation examined the genetic and intellectual origins of social attitudes.
Selected work
Selected papers
2025
More than g: Verbal and performance IQ as predictors of socio-political attitudes
Intelligence, 108, 101876.
2024
Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment
Intelligence, 104, 101831.
PaperPull
AI-assisted data extraction
An AI-assisted tool for extracting user-defined variables from research papers into structured data for meta-analysis.
Data release
GWAS summary statistics
Coming soon
Summary statistics and supporting documentation will be released following publication of my GWAS.
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