Epidemiology
2023
Major-Smith, D., et al. (2023) Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK. Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Major-Smith, D., et al. (2023) Associations between religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours and dietary patterns: analysis of the parental generation in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England. Public Health Nutrition.
Major-Smith, D., et al. (2023). Associations between psychological factors and religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England: A descriptive study. Wellcome Open Research.
Costantini, I., Sallis, H., Tilling, K., Major-Smith, D., Pearson, R. M & Kounali, D-Z. (2023) Childhood trajectories of internalising and externalising problems associated with a polygenic risk score for neuroticism in a UK birth cohort study. JCPP Advances.
Millard, L. A. C., Fernández-Sanlés, A., Carter, A. R., Hughes, R., Tilling, K., Morris, T. P., Major-Smith, D., et al. (2023) Exploring the impact of selection bias in observational studies of COVID-19: a simulation study. International Journal of Epidemiology.
Cheetham, N. J., … Major-Smith, D., et al. (2023) Antibody levels following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: associations with post-vaccination infection and risk factors in two UK longitudinal studies. eLife.
Tohidinik, H. R., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Major-Smith, D., et al. (2023) Quality of relationships in mothers and their partners in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Wellcome Open Research.
Lees, V., Hay, R., Bould, H., Kwong, A. S. F., Major-Smith, D., Kounale, D. & Pearson, R. M. (2023) The impact of routines on emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and on parental anxiety during COVID-19. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
2022
Major-Smith, D., et al. (2022) Demographic and socioeconomic predictors of religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England: Results from the offspring generation. Wellcome Open Research.
Major-Smith, D., et al. (2022) Demographic and socioeconomic predictors of religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England: Results from the parental generation. Wellcome Open Research.
Major-Smith, D., et al. (2022) The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC): a 2022 update on the enrolled sample of mothers and the associated baseline data. Wellcome Open Research.
Morgan, J., Halstead, I., Northstone, K., Golding, J. & Major-Smith, D. (2022) Religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours and study participation in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England. Wellcome Open Research.
Campbell, A., Munafò, M., Sallis, H. M., Pearson, R. M., & Smith, D. (2022) Commentary: Culture and causal inference: The impact of cultural differences on the generalisability of findings from Mendelian randomisation studies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
2021
Major-Smith, D., et al. (2021) The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Antibody testing results, April – June 2021. Wellcome Open Research.
Smith, D., et al. (2021) 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. BMJ Open.
Fernández-Sanlés, A., Smith, D., et al. (2021) Bias from questionnaire invitation and response in COVID-19 research: an example using ALSPAC. Wellcome Open Research.
Smith, D., et al. (2021) The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Questionnaire data capture November 2020 – March 2021. Wellcome Open Research.
Northstone, K., Smith.D., et al. (2021) The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Home-based antibody testing results, October 2020. An emphasis on self-screening at the population level. Wellcome Open Research.
Thomas, A., Danon, L., Christensen, H., Northstone, K., Smith, D., et al. (2021) Limits of lockdown: characterising essential contacts during strict physical distancing. Wellcome Open Research.
Costantini, I., Kwong, A. S. F., Smith, D., et al. (2021) 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. Frontiers in Psychology.
2020
Smith. D., et al. (2020) The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Generation 2 questionnaire data capture May-July 2020. Wellcome Open Research.
Northstone, K., Smith, D., et al. (2020) The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Questionnaire data capture May-July 2020. Wellcome Open Research.
Northstone, K., Haworth, S., Smith, D., et al. (2020) The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Questionnaire data capture April-May 2020. Wellcome Open Research.
Kwong, A. S. F., Pearson, R. M., Adams. M. J., Northstone, K., Tilling, K., Smith, D., et al. (2020) Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts. British Journal of Psychiatry.
Kwong, A. S. F., Pearson, R. M., Smith, D., et al. (2020) Longitudinal evidence for persistent anxiety in young adults through COVID-19 restrictions. Wellcome Open Research.
Golding, J., Gregory, S., Matthews, S., Smith, D., et al. (2020) Ancestral childhood environmental exposures occurring to the grandparents and great-grandparents of the ALSPAC study children. Wellcome Open Research.
2019
Lawlor, D. A., Lewcock, M., Rena-Jones, L., Rollings, C., Yip, V., Smith, D., et al. (2019) The second generation of The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC-G2): a cohort profile. Wellcome Open Research.
Preprints
Paul, E., Kounali, D, Smith, D., et al. (2021) Trajectories of child emotional and behavioural difficulties before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a longitudinal UK cohort. MedRxiv.
Major-Smith, D., et al. (2023) Incorporating interactions into structured life course modelling approaches: A simulation study and applied example of the role of access to green space and socioeconomic position on cardiometabolic health. MedRXiv.
Morgan, J., Major-Smith, D., Jong, J., & Golding, J. (2023) Are Religious/Spiritual Beliefs and Behaviours Associated with How PeopleCope with Traumatic Events? Findings from the parental generation of a UK birth cohort. OSF Preprints.
Evolutionary Anthropology
2023
Major-Smith, D., et al. (2023) Cooperation and partner choice among Agta hunter-gatherer children: An evolutionary developmental perspective. PLOS ONE.
Major-Smith, D. (2023) Exploring causality from observational data: An example assessing whether religiosity promotes cooperation. Evolutionary Human Science (Registered Report).
Page, A. E., Ruiz, M., Dyble, M., Major-Smith, D., Migliano, A. B. & Myers, S. (2023) Wealth, health and inequality in Agta foragers. Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health.
Ross, C., … Major-Smith, D., … & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2023). Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. PNAS.
2022
Page, A. E., Migliano, A. B., Dyble, M., Major-Smith., D, Viguier, S. & Hassan, H. (2022) Sedentarisation and maternal childcare networks: role of risk, gender and demography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
2021
Dyble, M., Migliano, A. B., Page, A. E. & Smith, D. (2021) Relatedness within and between Agta residential groups. Evolutionary Human Sciences.
Page, A. E., Emmott, E. H., Dyble. M., Smith, D., et al. (2021) Children are important too: juvenile playgroups and maternal childcare in a foraging population, the Agta. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.
Castelli, E., de Almeida, B., Muniz, Y., Silva, ., Passos, M., Souza, A., Page, A. E., Dyble, M., Smith, D., et al. (2021) HLA-G genetic diversity and evolutive aspects in worldwide populations. Scientific Reports.
2020
Smith, D. (2020) Cultural group selection and human cooperation: a conceptual and empirical review. Evolutionary Human Sciences.
Salali, G. D., Dyble, M., Chaudhary, N., Sikka, G., Derkx, I., Keestra, S., Smith, D., et al. (2020) Global WEIRDing: transitions in wild plant knowledge and treatment preferences in Congo hunter–gatherers. Evolutionary Human Sciences.
Migliano, A. B., Battiston, F., Viguier, S., Page, A. E., Dyble, M., Schlaepfer, R., Smith, D., et al. (2020) Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution. Science Advances.
2019
Smith, D., et al. (2019) A friend in need is a friend indeed: Need-based sharing, rather than cooperative assortment, predicts experimental resource transfers among Agta hunter-gatherers. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Deb, A. & Smith, D. (2019) Problem of altruism. Chapter in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (Eds. T. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford). (Open-access version)
Page, A. E., Thomas, M. G., Smith, D., et al. (2019) Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers. Nature Human Behaviour.
Dyble, M., Thorley, J., Page, A. E., Smith, D. & Migliano, A. B. (2019) Engagement in agricultural work is associated with reduced leisure time among Agta hunter-gatherers. Nature Human Behaviour.
2018
Smith, D. (2018) Prisoner’s dilemma and cooperation. Chapter in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (Eds. T. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford). (Open-access version)
Major, K., Smith, D. & Migliano, A. B. (2018) Co-Managers or Co-Residents? Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in the Management of Protected Areas: a Case Study of the Agta in the Philippines. Human Ecology.
2017
Smith, D., et al. (2017) Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling. Nature Communications.
Smith, D. (2017) O brother, where art thou? Investment in siblings for inclusive fitness benefits, not father absence, predicts earlier age at menarche. Biology Letters.
Diekmann, Y., Smith, D., et al. (2017) Accurate age estimation in small-scale societies. PNAS.
Page, A. E., Chaudhary, N., Viguier, S., Dyble, M., Thompson, J., Smith, D., et al. (2017) Hunter-Gatherer Social Networks and Reproductive Success. Scientific Reports.
Migliano, A. B., Page, A. E., Gómez-Gardenes, J., Salali, G. D., Viguier, S., Dyble, M., Thompson, J, Chaudhary, N., Smith, D., et al. (2017) Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture. Nature Human Behaviour.
2016
Smith, D., et al. (2016) Camp stability predicts patterns of hunter–gatherer cooperation. Royal Society Open Science.
Salali, G. D., Chaudhary, N., Thompson, J., Grace, O. M., ven der Burgt, X., Dyble, M., Page, A. E., Smith, D., et al. (2016) Knowledge-Sharing Networks in Hunter-Gatherers and the Evolution of Cumulative Culture. Current Biology.
Chaudhary, N., Salali, G. D., Thompson, J., Rey, A., Gerbault, P., Stevenson, E. G. J., Dyble, M., Page, A. E., Smith , D., et al (2016) Competition for Cooperation: variability, benefits and heritability of relational wealth in hunter-gatherers. Scientific Reports.
Dyble, M., Thompson, J, Smith, D., et al. (2016) Networks of Food Sharing Reveal the Functional Significance of Multilevel Sociality in Two Hunter-Gatherer Groups. Current Biology.
Page, A. E., Viguier, S., Dyble, M., Smith, D., et al. (2016) Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanism for the Neolithic expansion. PNAS.
2015
Dyble, M., Salali, G. D., Chaudhary, N., Page, A. E., Smith, D., et al. (2015) Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands. Science.
Chaudhary, N., Salali, G. D., Thompson, J., Dyble, M., Page, A. E., Smith, D., et al., (2015) Polygyny without wealth: popularity in gift games predicts polygyny in BaYaka Pygmies. Royal Society Open Science.
Miscellaneous
2022
Major, K. & Smith, D. (2022) Measuring the effectiveness of using rangers to deliver a behavior change campaign on sustainable palm oil in a UK zoo. Zoo Biology.
2019
Doodson, P., Major, K., Smith, D. & Garrett, S. (2019) Investigating the impact of staff-facilitated educational activities on visitor experience and self-reported learning at Bristol Zoo Gardens, UK. International Zoo Educators Association Journal.
2012
Ganis, G., Smith, D. & Schendan, H. E. (2012) The N170, not the P1, indexes the earliest time for categorical perception of faces, regardless of interstimulus variance. NeuroImage.
Preprints
Major-Smith, K., Borne, G., Wallis, L., Major-Smith, D., & Cotton, D. (2023) Impact of a default nudge intervention on plant-based milk consumption in a UK university café. OSF Preprints.