Methylation at SLC6A4 Is Linked to Family History of Child Abuse: An Examination of the Iowa Adoptee Sample Steven R.H. Beach,* Gene H. Brody, Alexandre A. Todorov, Tracy D. Gunter, and Robert A. Philibert University of Georgia, Athens, GA Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO...

This category was introduced in [1] and has been studied by Assem, Brüstle, Schiffler and Todorov [2], the authors [3], Thomas [4], Wralsen [5] and Zhu [6]. In particular, Thomas and Zhu have shown that it gives rise to the combinatorics of the generalized cluster complexes of Fomin and Reading [7] (defined by Tzanaki [8] for types A and B). It is known that C∆ is triangulated [1], Krull-Schmid...

Zhenyu Gao,1 Boyan Todorov,2 Curtis F. Barrett,2,3 Stijn van Dorp,4 Michel D. Ferrari,3 Arn M.J.M. van den Maagdenberg,2,3 Chris I. De Zeeuw,1,4 and Freek E. Hoebeek1 1Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands; 2Department of Human Genetics, and 3Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, 2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands; 4Netherlands Institut...

This essay is dedicated to João Claudio Todorov (1941-2021). It focuses on the history of Think Tanks cultural studies from a culturo-behavioral science perspective. first conceived idea creating Tank Cultural Studies (TTCS). He organized one with Maria Malott in 2005 Campinas, São Paulo. Occurring simultaneously XIV Brazilian Meeting Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, there was significant nu...

In this issue of SCAN, Todorov and Engell report a new study showing not only that human amygdala activation to faces is most strongly modulated by the perceived (un)trustworthiness of faces among a series of 14 personality trait dimensions (such as attractiveness, aggressiveness, intelligence, caring, and so forth), but also that such effects appear to reflect a more general response to negati...

Normal face-based judgements of social characteristics despite severely impaired holistic face processing Susanne Quadflieg a c , Alexander Todorov b , Renaud Laguesse c & Bruno Rossion c a Division of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE b Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA c Department of Psychology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Bel...

Motivational tendencies to happy and angry faces are well-established, e.g., in the form of aggression. Approach-avoidance reactions are not only elicited by emotional expressions, but also linked to the evaluation of stable, social characteristics of faces. Grounded in the two fundamental dimensions of face-based evaluations proposed by Oosterhof and Todorov (2008), the current study tested wh...