Meta-Analysis on Sara Westonhttps://sarajweston.com/tags/meta-analysis/Recent content in Meta-Analysis on Sara WestonHugoen-usSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000Personality trait predictors of healthcare use: A coordinated analysis of 15 sampleshttps://sarajweston.com/publication/willroth-personality-2023/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/willroth-personality-2023/Across 15 samples and nearly 359,000 people, we found small but consistent associations between Big Five traits and visiting the dentist, seeing a general practitioner and being hospitalized. The pattern differed by type of care.Is healthy neuroticism associated with health behaviors? A coordinated integrative data analysishttps://sarajweston.com/publication/graham-is-2020/Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/graham-is-2020/Across 15 longitudinal studies, we tested whether neuroticism combined with conscientiousness (“healthy neuroticism”) is associated with smoking, drinking, and physical activity.Meta-analytic techniques reveal that corvid causal reasoning in the Aesop's Fable paradigm is driven by trial-and-error learninghttps://sarajweston.com/publication/hennefield-meta-analytic-2018/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/hennefield-meta-analytic-2018/We reanalyzed data from five published Aesop’s fable studies, counting each object drop as a chance to learn. The birds learned from successful drops, and we conclude these tasks cannot separate trial-and-error learning from higher-order causal reasoning.