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| Alexander TodorovSummaryAffiliation: Princeton University Country: USA Publications
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First impressions: making up your mind after a 100-ms exposure to a faceJanine Willis
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Psychol Sci 17:592-8. 2006..However, increased exposure time led to more differentiated person impressions...- Implicit trustworthiness decisions: automatic coding of face properties in the human amygdalaAndrew D Engell
Princeton University, NJ 08540, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 19:1508-19. 2007..These findings suggest that the amygdala automatically categorizes faces according to face properties commonly perceived to signal untrustworthiness... 
Evaluating faces on trustworthiness: an extension of systems for recognition of emotions signaling approach/avoidance behaviorsAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 1010, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1124:208-24. 2008..I conclude with some methodological implications for the study of face evaluation, focusing on the advantages of formally modeling representation of faces on social dimensions...- Reading trustworthiness in faces without recognizing facesAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 1010, USA
Cogn Neuropsychol 25:395-410. 2008..The normal performance of two of the prosopagnosics suggests that forming person impressions from faces involves mechanisms functionally independent of mechanisms for encoding the identity of faces... 
Evaluating face trustworthiness: a model based approachAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 3:119-27. 2008..The medial prefrontal cortex and precuneus also showed a quadratic response, but their response was strongest to faces in the middle range of the trustworthiness dimension...- Spontaneous trait inferences are bound to actors' faces: evidence from a false recognition paradigmAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology, New York University, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:1051-65. 2002..Explicit person-trait judgments predicted both false recognition and response times for implied traits... - Task-invariant brain responses to the social value of facesAlexander Todorov
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 23:2766-81. 2011..The findings suggest that both explicit and implicit face evaluation engage multiple brain regions involved in attention, affect, and decision making... - The obligatory nature of holistic processing of faces in social judgmentsAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Perception 39:514-32. 2010..These findings suggest that the initial pass of information is holistic and that additional time allows participants to partially ignore the task-irrelevant context... - Robust learning of affective trait associations with faces when the hippocampus is damaged, but not when the amygdala and temporal pole are damagedAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 3:195-203. 2008..All patients judged trustworthy-looking faces more positively than untrustworthy-looking faces. The findings suggest that the hippocampus is not critical for learning affective associations between traits and faces... - The role of the amygdala in implicit evaluation of emotionally neutral facesAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 3:303-12. 2008..The findings suggest that the amygdala (i) automatically evaluates novel faces along a general valence dimension; and (ii) modulates a face responsive network of regions in occipital and temporal cortices... - Understanding evaluation of faces on social dimensionsAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 12:455-60. 2008..We conclude with a discussion of the potential role of the amygdala in face evaluation... - Inferences of competence from faces predict election outcomesAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Science 308:1623-6. 2005..The findings suggest that rapid, unreflective trait inferences can contribute to voting choices, which are widely assumed to be based primarily on rational and deliberative considerations... - The person reference process in spontaneous trait inferencesAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:482-93. 2004.... - Spontaneous retrieval of affective person knowledge in face perceptionAlexander Todorov
Department of Psychology, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:163-73. 2007..The findings suggest that affective person knowledge acquired from minimal information is spontaneously retrieved in face perception, engaging neural systems for analysis of social cognition and emotions... - Nonlinear amygdala response to face trustworthiness: contributions of high and low spatial frequency informationChristopher P Said
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:519-28. 2009..This finding is consistent with behavioral results and suggests that trustworthiness information may reach the amygdala through pathways carrying both coarse and fine resolution visual signals... - Amygdala and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex responses to appearance-based and behavior-based person impressionsSean G Baron
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:572-81. 2011..This finding suggests that the activity of the amygdala can affect the interaction between dmPFC activity and learning... - Distributed representations of dynamic facial expressions in the superior temporal sulcusChristopher P Said
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
J Vis 10:11. 2010..These results suggest that distributed representations in the pSTS could underlie the perception of facial expressions... - Brain systems for assessing the affective value of facesChristopher P Said
Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory, Center for Neural Science and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1660-70. 2011..In ยง5, we discuss how these two lines of research--perception of emotional expressions and face evaluation--could be integrated into a common, cognitive neuroscience framework... - The amygdala and FFA track both social and non-social face dimensionsChristopher P Said
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:3596-605. 2010..These findings suggest that the responses in these regions to socially relevant faces may be partially due to general distance from the average face... - Common neural mechanisms for the evaluation of facial trustworthiness and emotional expressions as revealed by behavioral adaptationAndrew D Engell
Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Perception 39:931-41. 2010..We conclude that, in line with the overgeneralization hypothesis, a common neural system is engaged during the evaluation of facial trustworthiness and expressions of anger and happiness... - Differential neural responses to faces physically similar to the self as a function of their valenceSara C Verosky
Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University, NJ, USA
Neuroimage 49:1690-8. 2010..The findings suggest that comparing the self to others who are viewed as positive versus negative triggers different psychological processes... - Holistic person processing: faces with bodies tell the whole storyHillel Aviezer
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540 1010, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 103:20-37. 2012..These results show that faces and bodies are processed as a single unit and support the notion of a composite person effect analogous to the classic effect described for faces... - Body cues, not facial expressions, discriminate between intense positive and negative emotionsHillel Aviezer
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Science 338:1225-9. 2012..These findings challenge standard models of emotion expression and highlight the role of the body in expressing and perceiving emotions... - Structural resemblance to emotional expressions predicts evaluation of emotionally neutral facesChristopher P Said
Department of Psychology and the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Emotion 9:260-4. 2009..These emotions could then be misattributed as traits... - Generalization of affective learning about faces to perceptually similar facesSara C Verosky
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Psychol Sci 21:779-85. 2010..The findings suggest that general learning mechanisms based on similarity can account for idiosyncratic face preferences... - Shared perceptual basis of emotional expressions and trustworthiness impressions from facesNikolaas N Oosterhof
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Emotion 9:128-33. 2009..These findings support the hypothesis that changes along the trustworthiness dimension correspond to subtle changes resembling expressions signaling whether the person displaying the emotion should be avoided or approached... - The functional basis of face evaluationNikolaas N Oosterhof
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:11087-92. 2008..The findings suggest that face evaluation involves an overgeneralization of adaptive mechanisms for inferring harmful intentions and the ability to cause harm and can account for rapid, yet not necessarily accurate, judgments from faces... - Toward socially inspired social neuroscienceAlexander Todorov
Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Brain Res 1079:76-85. 2006..Among the implications for social neuroscience: Social cognition intrinsically evokes affect, so social cognitive affective neuroscience glues together a variety of fields in psychological and neurosciences... - A statistical model of facial attractivenessChristopher P Said
Psychology Department, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Psychol Sci 22:1183-90. 2011..The model shows that averageness is attractive in some dimensions but not in others and resolves previous contradictory reports about the effects of sexual dimorphism on the attractiveness of male faces... - Attributions on the brain: neuro-imaging dispositional inferences, beyond theory of mindLasana T Harris
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1010, USA
Neuroimage 28:763-9. 2005..Thus, activated areas converge with prior neuro-imaging data on theory of mind and social cognition, but more precisely isolate the exact nature of the inferences that activate these areas... - Eye-gaze and arrow cues influence elementary sound perceptionJeremy I Borjon
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Green Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Proc Biol Sci 278:1997-2004. 2011..This perceptual shift was equivalent for both arrows and gazing faces and was unaffected by facial expression, consistent with a generic, supramodal attentional influence by exogenous cues... - Graded representations of emotional expressions in the left superior temporal sulcusChristopher P Said
Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University Princeton, NJ, USA
Front Syst Neurosci 4:6. 2010..In the right STS, representations showed evidence for both stimulus-related gradations and a categorical boundary... - Believe it or not: on the possibility of suspending beliefUri Hasson
Brain Research Imaging Center, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Avenue, MC 2030, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Sci 16:566-71. 2005..The findings suggest that comprehending a statement may not require believing it, and that it may be possible to suspend belief in comprehended propositions...