Alexander Todorov
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Todorov is a Bulgarian professor of psychology at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before his current position, he was a professor at Princeton University. His research is focused on how humans perceive, evaluate, and make sense of the social world. Todorov's research on first impressions has received media coverage from the New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Daily Telegraph, Scientific American, National Geographic, BBC, PBS, and NPR.
Alexander Todorov's Published Works
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Published Works
- First Impressions (2006) (1631)
- The functional basis of face evaluation (2008) (1405)
- Inferences of Competence from Faces Predict Election Outcomes (2005) (1302)
- Social attributions from faces: determinants, consequences, accuracy, and functional significance. (2015) (639)
- Body Cues, Not Facial Expressions, Discriminate Between Intense Positive and Negative Emotions (2012) (600)
- Understanding evaluation of faces on social dimensions (2008) (584)
- EvaluaTiNg faCES ON TruSTwOrThiNESS afTEr miNimal TimE ExpOSurE (2009) (576)
- Elected in 100 milliseconds: Appearance-Based Trait Inferences and Voting (2010) (469)
- Implicit Trustworthiness Decisions: Automatic Coding of Face Properties in the Human Amygdala (2007) (429)
- Predicting political elections from rapid and unreflective face judgments (2007) (427)
- Evaluating face trustworthiness: a model based approach. (2008) (362)
- Shared perceptual basis of emotional expressions and trustworthiness impressions from faces. (2009) (282)
- Fooled by first impressions? Reexamining the diagnostic value of appearance-based inferences (2010) (279)
- Structural resemblance to emotional expressions predicts evaluation of emotionally neutral faces. (2009) (259)
- Evaluating Faces on Trustworthiness (2008) (253)
- The efficiency of binding spontaneous trait inferences to actors’ faces (2003) (248)
- The Heuristic-Systematic Model of Social Information Processing (2002) (239)
- Spontaneous trait inferences are bound to actors' faces: evidence from a false recognition paradigm. (2002) (228)
- Probability as a psychological distance: Construal and preferences (2007) (219)
- How Do You Say ‘Hello’? Personality Impressions from Brief Novel Voices (2014) (217)
- Spontaneous retrieval of affective person knowledge in face perception (2007) (201)
- Automatic sources of aggression (2002) (191)
- Social attributions from faces bias human choices (2014) (183)
- Reverse Correlating Social Face Perception (2012) (183)
- Validation of data-driven computational models of social perception of faces. (2013) (179)
- Distributed representations of dynamic facial expressions in the superior temporal sulcus. (2010) (179)
- The role of the amygdala in implicit evaluation of emotionally neutral faces. (2008) (177)
- Bias in proxies' reports of disability: data from the National Health Interview Survey on disability. (2000) (170)
- The social evaluation of faces: a meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies. (2013) (166)
- The illusion of knowledge: When more information reduces accuracy and increases confidence (2007) (164)
- Brain systems for assessing the affective value of faces (2011) (152)
- Attributions on the brain: Neuro-imaging dispositional inferences, beyond theory of mind (2005) (151)
- Holistic person processing: faces with bodies tell the whole story. (2012) (145)
- Nonlinear Amygdala Response to Face Trustworthiness: Contributions of High and Low Spatial Frequency Information (2009) (145)
- Social neuroscience : toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind (2011) (141)
- Inferring Character From Faces (2014) (138)
- The person reference process in spontaneous trait inferences. (2004) (135)
- The neural dynamics of updating person impressions. (2013) (132)
- Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions (2017) (126)
- Reading trustworthiness in faces without recognizing faces (2008) (120)
- A Statistical Model of Facial Attractiveness (2011) (116)
- Misleading First Impressions (2014) (102)
- Unconscious Evaluation of Faces on Social Dimensions (2012) (101)
- Predicting Election Outcomes from Positive and Negative Trait Assessments of Candidate Images (2010) (99)
- Modeling Social Perception of Faces (2011) (97)
- Robust learning of affective trait associations with faces when the hippocampus is damaged, but not when the amygdala and temporal pole are damaged. (2008) (96)
- Social judgments from faces (2013) (94)
- Diagnostic Value Underlies Asymmetric Updating of Impressions in the Morality and Ability Domains (2013) (93)
- Statistical learning shapes face evaluation (2016) (91)
- Modeling Social Perception of Faces [Social Sciences] (2011) (90)
- What Is Typical Is Good (2015) (89)
- Generalization of Affective Learning About Faces to Perceptually Similar Faces (2010) (87)
- Contributions of facial expressions and body language to the rapid perception of dynamic emotions (2016) (80)
- Data-driven methods for modeling social perception (2011) (79)
- A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes. (2008) (77)
- The Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex Plays a Causal Role in Integrating Social Impressions from Faces and Verbal Descriptions. (2016) (76)
- Toward socially inspired social neuroscience (2006) (75)
- The amygdala and FFA track both social and non-social face dimensions (2010) (75)
- The Obligatory Nature of Holistic Processing of Faces in Social Judgments (2010) (75)
- The development of race-based perceptual categorization: skin color dominates early category judgments. (2015) (71)
- Republicans Prefer Republican-Looking Leaders (2012) (70)
- Shallow Cues With Deep Effects: Trait Judgments From Faces and Voting Decisions (2009) (70)
- Believe It or Not (2005) (68)
- Stimulus generalization as a mechanism for learning to trust (2018) (64)
- Global Warming: The Psychology of Long Term Risk (2006) (64)
- Data-driven approaches in the investigation of social perception (2016) (62)
- Common Neural Mechanisms for the Evaluation of Facial Trustworthiness and Emotional Expressions as Revealed by Behavioral Adaptation (2010) (62)
- The role of the amygdala in face perception and evaluation (2011) (61)
- Evaluating faces on social dimensions. (2011) (59)
- Looking at Employment through a Lifespan Telescope: Age, Health, and Employment Status of People with Serious Visual Impairment. (1999) (59)
- Visualising mental representations: A primer on noise-based reverse correlation in social psychology (2017) (59)
- Amygdala and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex responses to appearance-based and behavior-based person impressions. (2011) (58)
- Contextual Alignment of Cognitive and Neural Dynamics (2015) (55)
- Public Opinion on Foreign Policy The Multilateral Public that Perceives Itself as Unilateral (2004) (55)
- Task-invariant Brain Responses to the Social Value of Faces (2011) (53)
- Competence ratings in US predict presidential election outcomes in Bulgaria (2013) (53)
- Automatic Prediction of Facial Trait Judgments: Appearance vs. Structural Models (2011) (53)
- Differential neural responses to faces physically similar to the self as a function of their valence (2010) (52)
- Robust Selectivity for Faces in the Human Amygdala in the Absence of Expressions (2013) (49)
- When physical similarity matters: Mechanisms underlying affective learning generalization to the evaluation of novel faces (2013) (48)
- Valuing Money and Things: Why a $20 Item Can be Worth More and Less than $20 (2010) (48)
- Impression Formation: A Focus on Others’ Intents (2011) (46)
- Effects of Gender and Personality on First Impression (2015) (46)
- Personality Impressions from Facial Appearance (2011) (45)
- Criminal stereotypes in the courtroom: Facial tattoos affect guilt and punishment differently. (2013) (45)
- Gender biases in impressions from faces: Empirical studies and computational models. (2020) (44)
- People Claim Objectivity After Knowingly Using Biased Strategies (2014) (42)
- Revealing Hidden Gender Biases in Competence Impressions of Faces (2018) (42)
- Representations of individuals in ventral temporal cortex defined by faces and biographies (2013) (40)
- For Your Local Eyes Only: Culture-Specific Face Typicality Influences Perceptions of Trustworthiness (2017) (40)
- Inferring the preferences of others from spontaneous, low-emotional facial expressions (2010) (38)
- Response to Bonnefon et al.: Limited ‘kernels of truth’ in facial inferences (2015) (35)
- A Policy Maker’s Dilemma: Preventing Terrorism or Preventing Blame (2011) (35)
- The determinants of consciousness of human faces (2018) (34)
- Graded Representations of Emotional Expressions in the Left Superior Temporal Sulcus (2010) (33)
- Communication effects on memory and judgment (2002) (33)
- Two faces are better than one: Eliminating false trait associations with faces (2009) (32)
- Republicans Prefer Republican-Looking Leaders : Political Facial Stereotypes Predict Candidate Electoral Success Among Right-Leaning Voters (2012) (32)
- The Robustness of Learning about the Trustworthiness of Other People (2015) (31)
- Neural dissociations between meaningful and mere inconsistency in impression updating. (2016) (30)
- Personality at Face Value: Facial Appearance Predicts Self and Other Personality Judgments among Strangers and Spouses (2014) (30)
- Memory for faces: the effect of facial appearance and the context in which the face is encountered (2015) (29)
- Context effects in national health surveys: effects of preceding questions on reporting serious difficulty seeing and legal blindness. (2000) (27)
- The accessibility and applicability of knowledge: predicting context effects in national surveys. (2000) (25)
- Interfering with activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex via TMS affects social impressions updating (2016) (24)
- Thrill of victory or agony of defeat? Perceivers fail to utilize information in facial movements. (2015) (24)
- Republican Voters Prefer Candidates Who Have Conservative‐Looking Faces: New Evidence From Exit Polls (2018) (23)
- Loud and unclear: Intense real-life vocalizations during affective situations are perceptually ambiguous and contextually malleable. (2019) (23)
- Modelling perceptions of criminality and remorse from faces using a data-driven computational approach (2017) (23)
- Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces (2019) (22)
- Physical Strength as a Cue to Dominance (2016) (21)
- Can we reduce facial biases? Persistent effects of facial trustworthiness on sentencing decisions (2019) (21)
- Quantifying idiosyncratic and shared contributions to judgment (2020) (19)
- I care, even after the first impression: Facial appearance-based evaluations in healthcare context. (2017) (18)
- Cognitive procedures for correcting proxy-response biases in surveys (2003) (18)
- The social perception of faces (2012) (17)
- Accuracy of Inferring Self- and Other-Preferences from Spontaneous Facial Expressions (2012) (17)
- The structure and perceptual basis of social judgments from faces (2021) (16)
- Implicit emotion perception in schizophrenia. (2015) (15)
- Normal face-based judgements of social characteristics despite severely impaired holistic face processing (2012) (14)
- Deep models of superficial face judgments (2022) (11)
- Communication context, explanation, and social judgment (2000) (11)
- Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus (2020) (11)
- Eye-gaze and arrow cues influence elementary sound perception (2011) (10)
- Person information facilitates memory for face identity (2018) (10)
- Automatic point-based facial trait judgments evaluation (2010) (10)
- Robust Effects of Affective Person Learning on Evaluation of Faces (2018) (9)
- The biasing effects of appearances go beyond physical attractiveness and mating motives (2017) (9)
- The eye wants what the heart wants: Female face preferences are related to partner personality preferences. (2020) (8)
- Contributions of shape and reflectance information to social judgments from faces (2019) (8)
- Automated Prediction of Preferences Using Facial Expressions (2014) (7)
- Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces (2019) (7)
- A Flexible Neural Representation of Faces in the Human Brain (2020) (7)
- Another Look at Reasoning Experiments: Rationality, Normative Models and Conversational Factors (1997) (6)
- The Least Likely Act (2012) (6)
- Differences in Emotion Recognition From Body and Face Cues Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals. (2019) (6)
- Learning the affective value of people: More than affect-based mechanisms. (2020) (6)
- What can the study of first impressions tell us about attitudinal ambivalence and paranoia in schizophrenia? (2016) (5)
- Pain and satisfaction: healthcare providers’ facial appearance matters (2020) (5)
- Did you see it? Robust individual differences in the speed with which meaningful visual stimuli break suppression (2020) (5)
- The shape of novel objects contributes to shared impressions. (2017) (5)
- A neuronal social trait space for first impressions in the human amygdala and hippocampus (2021) (4)
- Reprint of: The amygdala and FFA track both social and non-social face dimensions (2011) (4)
- Violence Exposure Is Associated With Atypical Appraisal of Threat Among Women: An EEG Study (2021) (4)
- Behavioral and Neural Adaptation in Approach Behavior (2018) (4)
- Data-Driven, Photorealistic Social Face-Trait Encoding, Prediction, and Manipulation Using Deep Neural Networks (2020) (3)
- First Impressions and Consumer Mate Preferences in Online Dating and Speed-Dating (2015) (3)
- Task Modulation of Single-Neuron Activity in the Human Amygdala and Hippocampus (2021) (3)
- On the richness and limitations of dimensional models of social perception (2009) (2)
- "Structural resemblance to emotional expressions predicts evaluation of emotionally neutral faces": Correction to Said, Sebe, and Todorov (2009). (2009) (2)
- Can We Read a Person's Character from Facial Images? The discredited “science” of physiognomy is making an unfortunate comeback (2019) (2)
- The Role of Facial Regions in Evaluating Social Dimensions (2012) (2)
- Psychologists seek the unexpected, not the negative, to provoke innovative theory construction (2004) (2)
- Running head : FIRST IMPRESSIONS First impressions : Making up your mind after 100 milliseconds exposure to a face (2005) (2)
- Quantifying idiosyncratic and shared contributions to stimulus evaluations (2018) (2)
- The eye wants what the heart wants: Female face preferences are related to partner personality preferences (2019) (1)
- Election Outcomes Inferences of Competence from Faces Predict (2008) (1)
- The Cognitive and Neural Basis of Impression Formation (2013) (1)
- Social group knowledge biases face perception (2013) (1)
- Capturing and modifying the perceived traits of all possible faces (2021) (1)
- Generative models for visualizing idiosyncratic impressions. (2022) (1)
- Visual Hierarchy Relates to Impressions of Good Design (2021) (1)
- A data-driven, hyper-realistic method for visualizing individual mental representations of faces (2022) (1)
- Contextual Alignment of Cognitive and Neural Dynamics Daniel (2015) (1)
- Flexible updating of beliefs in order to forgive (2018) (0)
- Un co rre cte d Pr oo f Contextual Alignment of Cognitive and Neural Dynamics (2014) (0)
- Flexible updating of beliefs in order to forgive (2018) (0)
- Communication effects on memory and judgment ALEXANDER TODOROV (2002) (0)
- Social-cognitive representational spaces : ontology and consequences Submitted (2018) (0)
- An attractiveness function for human faces (2010) (0)
- Selective contrast enhancement at category boundaries in the superior temporal sulcus (2010) (0)
- Interfering with activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex via TMS affects social impressions updating (2016) (0)
- Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence (2023) (0)
- Amygdala Tuning Toward Self and Other (2016) (0)
- Person information facilitates memory for face identity (2018) (0)
- Observer- and stimulus-specific effects in unconscious evaluation of faces on social dimensions (2011) (0)
- Publisher Correction: The determinants of consciousness of human faces (2017) (0)
- ThE roBuSTnESS of lEArnIng AB ou T T h E Tru ST worT h I n ESS of oT h E r pE opl E (2015) (0)
- Face Stereotypes from Insufficient Statistical Learning (2021) (0)
- Electoral Success Among Right-Leaning Voters Republicans Prefer Republican-Looking Leaders : Political Facial Stereotypes Predict Candidate (2012) (0)
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Holistic Person Processing : Faces With Bodies Tell the Whole Story (2012) (0)
- A perceptual basis for outgroup homogeneity (2017) (0)
- Alexander Todorov A Statistical Model of Facial Attractiveness (2011) (0)
- Holistic processing of unfamiliar faces during social judgments in acquired prosopagnosia (2011) (0)
- The role of the amygdala in face perception and evaluation (2011) (0)
- A face you can trust: Iterated learning reveals how stereotypes of facial trustworthiness may propagate in the absence of evidence (2020) (0)
- Consequences of Misperceptions of Public Opinion for Support of Specific Foreign Policies (2015) (0)
- Trust Perception (2015) (0)
- Face Image Stimulus Set (2021) (0)
- The Least Likely of Behaviors 1 Running Head : THE LEAST LIKELY OF BEHAVIORS The Least Likely of Behaviors : When Memory for Atypical Past Behavior biases Behavioral Predictions (2007) (0)
- The Look that Binds: Partner-Directed Altruistic Motivation and Biased Perception in Married Couples (2015) (0)
- Memory for faces: the effect of facial appearance and the context in which the face is encountered (2014) (0)
- The determinants of consciousness of human faces (2017) (0)
- Immigrant faceism: documentation statuses evoke racialized mental representations (2021) (0)
- Infants Social Evaluations of Trustworthy & Untrustworthy Faces (2015) (0)
- Robustness of emotional expression recognition under low visibility (2015) (0)
- Event segmentation in moral learning and impression updating (2018) (0)
- Two kinds of looking guilty: Criminal appearance and a lack of remorse affect guilt and punishment ratings differently. (2014) (0)
- Government Employment of Visually Impaired People; HIV Cases; and Children's Weil-Being (1998) (0)
- Personality at Face Value: Facial Appearance Predicts Self and Other Personality Judgments among Strangers and Spouses (2014) (0)
- Quantifying idiosyncratic and shared contributions to judgment (2020) (0)
- Accuracy of Inferring Self- and Other-Preferences from Spontaneous Facial Expressions (2012) (0)
- Insta-learn: Face Stereotypes Emerge and Persist through Insufficient Statistical Learning (2021) (0)
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