Daniel Smith

2025

Demography of grandmothering: a case study in Agta foragers

Page, A. E., Dyble, M., Migliano, A., Chaudhary, N., Viguier, S. & Major-Smith, D., 14 May 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 2046, 12 p., 20250385.

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Exploring bidirectional causality between religion and mental health: A longitudinal study using data from the parent generation of a UK birth cohort

Major-Smith, D., Morgan, J., Halstead, I., Golding, J. & Çınaroğlu, M. (Editor), 18 Mar 2025, In: PLoS ONE. 20, 3, 26 p., e0319796.

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2024

Accounting for bias due to outcome data missing not at random: Comparison and illustration of two approaches to probabilistic bias analysis: a simulation study

Kawabata, E., Smith, D., Clayton, G. L., Shapland, C. Y., Morris, T. P., Carter, A. R., Fernandez Sanles, A., Borges, M. C., Tilling, K. M., Griffith, G. J., Millard, L. A. C., Davey Smith, G., Lawlor, D. A. & Hughes, R., 21 Oct 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: BMC Medical Research Methodology.

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Associations between Big-5 personality traits, cognitive ability, and climate beliefs and behaviours: Results from a longitudinal UK birth cohort

Freminot, K., Major-Smith, K., Northstone, K., Halstead, I. & Major-Smith, D., 29 Nov 2024, In: Europe’s Journal of Psychology. 20, 4, p. 288-302 15 p.

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Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households

Deb, A., Saunders, D., Major-Smith, D., Dyble, M., Page, A. E., Salali, G. D., Migliano, A. B., Heintz, C. & Chaudhary, N., 1 Jul 2024, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 45, 4, 12 p., 106589.

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Climate change beliefs and behaviours: Data collected from 30-year-old offspring and their parents in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)

Major-Smith, D., Halstead, I., Major-Smith, K., Iles-Caven , Y. L., House, J. I., Northstone, K. & Golding, J., 16 Jul 2024, In: Wellcome Open Research.

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Demographic and socioeconomic predictors of religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England: Results from the offspring generation

Major-Smith, D., Morgan, J., Halstead, I., Tohidinik, H. R., Goulding, N., Iles-Caven, Y., Golding, J. & Northstone, K., 4 Jun 2024, In: Wellcome Open Research. 7, 29 p., 290.

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Disagreement concerning atopic dermatitis subtypes between an English prospective cohort (ALSPAC) and linked electronic health records

Matthewman, J., Mulick Cassidy, A., Dand, N., Major-Smith, D., Henderson, A., Pearce, N., Denaxas, S., Iskandar, R., Roberts, A., Cornish, R. P., Brown, S. J., Paternoster, L. & Langan, S. M., 1 Dec 2024, In: Clinical and Experimental Dermatology. 49, 12, p. 1537–1546 10 p.

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Exploring associations between the Big Five personality traits and cognitive ability with COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and uptake among mothers and offspring in a UK prospective cohort study

Condie, J., Northstone, K., Major-Smith, D. & Halstead, I., 19 Apr 2024, In: Vaccine. 42, 11, p. 2817-2826 10 p.

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Hunter-Gatherer Children's Close-Proximity Networks: Similarities and differences with cooperative and communal breeding systems

Chaudhary, N., Page, A. E., Salali, G. D., Dyble, M., Major-Smith, D., Migliano, A. B., Vinicius, L., Thompson, J. & Viguier, S., 31 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6, 27 p., e11.

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4 Citations (Scopus)

Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)

Morgan, J. & Major-Smith, D., 19 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 15 p., 2377545.

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Releasing synthetic data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC): Guidelines and applied examples

Major-Smith, D., Kwong, A. S. F., Timpson, N. J., Heron, J. E. & Northstone, K., 19 Feb 2024, In: Wellcome Open Research. 9, 57

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Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters

Page, A. E., Ringen, E. J., Koster, J., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Kramer, K., Shenk, M. K., Stieglitz, J., Starkweather, K., Ziker, J. P., Boyette, A. H., Colleran, H., Moya, C., Du, J., Mattison, S. M., Greaves, R., Sum, C.-Y., Liu, R., Lew-Levy, S., Kiabiya Ntamboudila, F. & Prall, S. & 23 others, Towner, M. C., Blumenfield, T., Migliano, A. B., Major-Smith, D., Dyble, M., Salali, G. D., Chaudhary, N., Derkx, I. E., Ross, C. T., Scelza, B. A., Gurven, M. D., Winterhalder, B. P., Cortez, C., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Schacht, R., Macfarlan, S. J., Leonetti, D., French, J. C., Alam, N., Zohora, F. T., Kaplan, H. S., Hooper, P. L. & Sear, R., 27 Feb 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121, 9, p. e2318181121 e2318181121.

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2023

Associations between psychological factors and religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England: A descriptive study [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]

Major-Smith, D., Morgan, J., Tohidi Nik, H., Goulding, N., Iles-Caven , Y., Golding, J., Northstone, K. & Halstead, I., 17 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Wellcome Open Research. 8, 174, 18 p., 18955.

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Associations between religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours and dietary patterns: analysis of the parental generation in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England

Major-Smith, D., Morgan, J., Emmett, P. M., Golding, J. & Northstone, K., 1 Dec 2023, In: Public Health Nutrition. 26, 12, p. 2895 - 2911

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Childhood trajectories of internalising and externalising problems associated with a polygenic risk score for neuroticism in a UK birth cohort study

Costantini, I., Sallis, H. M., Tilling, K. M., Major-Smith, D., Pearson, R. M. & Kounali, D.-Z., 22 Feb 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: JCPP Advances. 13 p., e12141.

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Cooperation and partner choice among Agta hunter-gatherer children: an evolutionary developmental perspective

Major-Smith, D., Chaudhary, N., Dyble, M., Major-Smith, K., Page, A. E., Salali, G. D., Mace, R. & Migliano, A. B., 26 Apr 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 4 April, 20 p., e0284360.

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Exploring causality from observational data: An example assessing whether religiosity promotes cooperation

Major-Smith, D., 27 Jun 2023, In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5, e22.

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7 Citations (Scopus)

Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK

Major-Smith, D., Halstead, I., Morgan, J., Tohidinik, H. R., Iles-Caven , Y. L., Golding, J. & Northstone, K., 6 Jan 2023, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 20 p.

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Sedentarization and maternal childcare networks: role of risk, gender and demography

Page, A. E., Migliano, A. B., Dyble, M., Major-Smith, D., Viguier, S. & Hassan, A., 16 Jan 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1868, 20210435.

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Wealth, health and inequality in Agta foragers

Page, A. E., Ruiz, M., Dyble, M., Major-Smith, D., Migliano, A. B. & Myers, S., 15 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolution, medicine, and public health. 11, 1, p. 149-162 14 p., eoad015.

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2022

Culture and causal inference: The impact of cultural differences on the generalisability of findings from Mendelian randomisation studies

Campbell, A., Munafò, M. R., Sallis, H. M., Pearson, R. M. & Smith, D., 13 Sept 2022, In: The Behavioral and brain sciences. 45, e158.

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Demographic and socioeconomic predictors of religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England: Results from the parental generation

Major-Smith, D., Morgan, J., Halstead, I., Tohidinik, H. R., Iles-Caven , Y. L., Golding, J. & Northstone, K., 25 May 2022, (Submitted) In: Wellcome Open Research. 7, 159.

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Exploring the impact of selection bias in observational studies of COVID-19: a simulation study

Millard, L. A. C., Fernandez Sanles, A., Carter, A. R., Hughes, R., Tilling, K. M., Morris, T. P., Smith, D., Griffith, G. J., Clayton, G. L., Kawabata, E., Davey Smith, G., Lawlor, D. A. & Borges, M. C., 6 Dec 2022, In: International Journal of Epidemiology.

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Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK

Smith, D., Halstead, I., Morgan, J., Tohidinik, H. R., Iles-Caven, Y., Golding, J. & Northstone, K., 19 Jul 2022

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Measuring the effectiveness of using rangers to deliver a behavior change campaign on sustainable palm oil in a UK zoo

Major, K. & Smith, D., 22 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Zoo Biology.

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Religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours and study participation in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]

Morgan, J., Halstead, I., Northstone, K. & Smith, D., 12 Jul 2022, In: Wellcome Open Research. 7, 186.

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The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC): a 2022 update on the enrolled sample of mothers and the associated baseline data

Major-Smith, D., Heron, J., Fraser, A., Lawlor, D. A., Golding, J. & Northstone, K., 18 Nov 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Wellcome Open Research. 7, 9 p., 283.

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2021

Assessing and predicting adolescent and early adulthood common mental disorders in the ALSPAC cohort using electronic primary care data

Smith, D., Willan, K., Prady, S., Dickerson, J., Santorelli, G., Tilling, K. M. & Cornish, R. P., 14 May 2021.

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Assessing and predicting adolescent and early adulthood common mental disorders using electronic primary care data: analysis of a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England

Smith, D., Willan, K., Prady, S., Dickerson, J., Santorelli, G., Tilling, K. M. & Cornish, R. P., 18 Oct 2021, In: BMJ Open. 11, 10, 13 p., e053624.

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Bias from questionnaire invitation and response in COVID-19 research: an example using ALSPAC [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]

Fernandez-Sanles, A., Smith, D., Clayton, G. L., Northstone, K., Carter, A. R., Millard, L. A. C., Borges, M. C., Timpson, N. J., Tilling, K. M., Griffith, G. J. & Lawlor, D. A., 19 Jul 2021, In: Wellcome Open Research. 6, 184, 184.

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Children are important too: juvenile playgroups and maternal childcare in a foraging population, the Agta

Page, A. E., Emmot, E. H., Dyble, M., Smith, D., Chaudhary, N., Viguier, S. & Migliano, A. B., 21 Jun 2021, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 376, 1827, p. 20200026 1 p., 20200026.

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Limits of lockdown: characterising essential contacts during strict physical distancing [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]

Thomas, A., Danon, L., Christensen, H., Northstone, K., Smith, D., Nixon, E., Trickey, A., Hemani, G., Sauchelli, S., Finn, A., Timpson, N. & Brooks-Pollock, E., 14 May 2021, (Submitted) In: Wellcome Open Research.

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Locus of Control and Negative Cognitive Styles in Adolescence as Risk Factors for Depression Onset in Young Adulthood: Findings From a Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Costantini, I., Kwong , A. S. F., Smith, D., Lewcock, M., Lawlor, D. A., Moran, P. A., Tilling, K. M., Golding, J. & Pearson, R. M., 25 Mar 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 15 p., 599240.

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Mental health before and during COVID-19 in two longitudinal UK population cohorts

Kwong, A. S. F., Pearson, R. M., Adams, M. J., Northstone, K., Tilling, K., Smith, D., Fawns-Ritchie, C., Bould, H., Warne, N., Zammit, S., Gunnell, D., Moran, P., Micali, N., Reichenberg, A., Hickman, M., Rai, D., Haworth, S., Campbell, A., Altschul, D. & Flaig, R. & 4 others, McIntosh, A. M., Lawlor, D. A., Porteous, D. & Timpson, N. J., 1 Jun 2021, In: British Journal of Psychiatry. 10 p.

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Relatedness within and between Agta residential groups

Dyble, M., Migliano, A. B., Page, A. E. & Smith, D., 22 Sept 2021, In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3, e49.

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The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Generation 2 questionnaire data capture May-July 2020 [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]

Smith, D., Northstone, K., Bowring, C., Wells, N., Crawford, M., Pearson, R. M., Thomas, A., Brooks-Pollock, E., Lawlor, D. A. & Timpson, N. J., 14 Apr 2021, In: Wellcome Open Research. 5, p. 1-25 25 p., 278.

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The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Antibody testing results, April – June 2021

Major-Smith, D., Matthews, S. M., Breeze, T., Crawford, M., Woodward, H., Wells, N., Mitchell, R. E., Molloy, L. C., Northstone, K. & Timpson, N. J., 20 Oct 2021, In: Wellcome Open Research. 6, 16 p., 283.

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The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Questionnaire data capture November 2020 – March 2021

Smith, D., Bowring, C. E., Wells, N. S., Crawford, M., Timpson, N. J. & Northstone, K., 16 Jun 2021, In: Wellcome Open Research. 6, 155, 155.

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Trajectories of child emotional and behavioural difficulties before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a longitudinal UK cohort

Paul, E., Kounali, D.-Z., Kwong, A. S. F., Smith, D., Costantini, I., Lawlor, D. A., Sayal, K. S., Bould, H. E., Timpson, N. J., Northstone, K., Lewcock, M., Tilling, K. M. & Pearson, R. M., 2021, (Submitted).

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2020

Ancestral childhood environmental exposures occurring to the grandparents and great-grandparents of the ALSPAC study children

Golding, J., Gregory, S., Matthews, S. M., Smith, D., Suarez Perez, A., Bowring, C. E., Iles-Caven , Y. L., Birmingham, K. E., Pembrey, M. E., Suderman, M. J. & Northstone, K., 4 Sept 2020, In: Wellcome Open Research. 5, 207, 18 p.

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Cultural group selection and human cooperation: a conceptual and empirical review

Smith, D., 7 Feb 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2, 29 p., e2.

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Global WEIRDing: transitions in wild plant knowledge and treatment preferences in Congo hunter–gatherers

Salali, G. D., Dyble, M., Chaudhary, N., Sikka, G., Derkx, I., Keestra, S., Smith, D., Thompson, J., Vinicius, L. & Migliano, A. B., 1 Jun 2020, In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2, 14 p., e24.

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Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution

Migliano, A. B., Battiston, F., Viguier, S., Page, A. E., Dyble, M., Schlaepfer, R., Smith, D., Astete, L., Ngales, M., Gómez-Gardeñes, J., Latora, V. & Vinicius, L., 28 Feb 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 9, 8 p., eaax5913.

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The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Questionnaire data capture May-July 2020

Northstone, K., Smith, D., Bowring, C. E., Wells, N. S., Crawford, M., Haworth, S. J. & Timpson, N. J., 22 Sept 2020, In: Wellcome Open Research. 5, 210, 16 p.

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The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Questionnaire data capture April-May 2020

Northstone, K., Haworth, S., Smith, D., Bowring, C., Wells, N. & Timpson, N. J., 10 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Wellcome Open Research. 10 p.

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2019

A friend in need is a friend indeed: Need-based sharing, rather than cooperative assortment, predicts experimental resource transfers among Agta hunter-gatherers

Smith, D., Dyble, M., Major, K., Page, A. E., Chaudhary, N., Salali, G. D., Thompson, J., Vinicius, L., Migliano, A. B. & Mace, R., 1 Jan 2019, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 40, 1, p. 82-89 8 p.

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Engagement in agricultural work is associated with reduced leisure time among Agta hunter-gatherers

Dyble, M., Thorley, J., Page, A. E., Smith, D. & Migliano, A. B., 1 Aug 2019, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 3, p. 792 - 796 7 p.

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Problem of Altruism

Deb, A. & Smith, D., 25 Jul 2019, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Shackelford, T. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds.). Springer

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Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers

Page, A. E., Thomas, M., Smith, D., Dyble, M., Viguier, S., Chaudhary, N., Salali, G. D., Thompson, J., Mace, R. & Migliano, A. B., 12 Aug 2019, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 3, p. 1154–1163 13 p.

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