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Overview

Alan Taylor is an academic affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom, specializing in the social sciences with a specific focus on gender studies, literature and literary theory, communication, philosophy, and economics and econometrics. Their research spans several subfields, contributing to interdisciplinary discussions within these areas.

The main topics of Alan Taylor's research work include:

  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies
  • Cinema and Media Studies
  • Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
  • Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

They have published across a range of frequent venues, demonstrating an engagement with feminist, media, and cultural studies. The publication venues include:

  • Celebrity Studies
  • BJA Education
  • Contemporary Women's Writing
  • Australian Feminist Studies
  • Signs

Recent papers authored by Alan Taylor cover diverse topics related to feminism, political memoirs, and pharmacology. Some notable publications are:

  • "Corrigendum to 'Basic pharmacology of local anaesthetics' [BJA Education 20 (2020) 34-41]" (2020, BJA Education)
  • "'The Most Revolting Ideas I've Read in a Woman's Magazine': The Female Eunuch, Affective (dis)investments, and McCall's Reader-writers'" (2020, Australian Feminist Studies)
  • "Political Memoir, Celebrity, and the Reclamation of Feminism: Gendered Self-representation in Julia Gillard's My Story and Hillary Clinton's What Happened" (2023, Contemporary Women's Writing)

Frequent collaborators include scholars working in related topics, highlighting a network of interdisciplinary research. These coauthors are:

  • Graeme McLeod
  • Margaret Henderson
  • Brian L. Gulson
  • Felipe González
  • Christopher M. Meissner

Best Publications

  • Influence of Life Stress on Depression: Moderation by a Polymorphism in the 5-HTT Gene

    Avshalom Caspi;Karen Sugden;Terrie E. Moffitt;Alan Taylor

  • Role of Genotype in the Cycle of Violence in Maltreated Children

    Avshalom Caspi;Avshalom Caspi;Joseph McClay;Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt;Jonathan Mill

  • Moderation of the effect of adolescent-onset cannabis use on adult psychosis by a functional polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene: longitudinal evidence of a gene X environment interaction.

    Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt;Mary Cannon;Mary Cannon;Joseph McClay

  • MAOA , maltreatment, and gene–environment interaction predicting children's mental health: new evidence and a meta-analysis

    J. Kim-Cohen;J. Kim-Cohen;Avshalom Caspi;Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor;Brett Williams

  • Childhood maltreatment predicts adult inflammation in a life-course study

    Andrea Danese;Carmine M. Pariante;Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor

  • Association between children's experience of socioeconomic disadvantage and adult health: A life-course study.

    Richie Poulton;Avshalom Caspi;Avshalom Caspi;Barry J Milne;W Murray Thomson

  • Maternal expressed emotion predicts children's antisocial behavior problems: using monozygotic-twin differences to identify environmental effects on behavioral development.

    Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Julia Morgan;Michael Rutter

  • Evidence for Early-Childhood, Pan-Developmental Impairment Specific to Schizophreniform Disorder Results From a Longitudinal Birth Cohort

    Mary Cannon;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;HonaLee Harrington

  • Life with (or without) father: the benefits of living with two biological parents depend on the father's antisocial behavior

    Sara R. Jaffee;Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor

  • School, Neighborhood, and Family Factors Are Associated With Children's Bullying Involvement: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study

    Lucy Bowes;Louise Arseneault;Barbara Maughan;Alan Taylor

  • Individual, family, and neighborhood factors distinguish resilient from non-resilient maltreated children: a cumulative stressors model.

    Sara R. Jaffee;Avshalom Caspi;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt;Monica Polo-Tomás

  • Maternal depression and children's antisocial behavior: nature and nurture effects.

    Julia Kim-Cohen;Terrie E. Moffitt;Alan Taylor;Susan J. Pawlby

  • Physical maltreatment victim to antisocial child: evidence of an environmentally mediated process.

    Sara R. Jaffee;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Alan Taylor

  • Domestic violence is associated with environmental suppression of IQ in young children

    Karestan C. Koenen;Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor

  • Moderation of breastfeeding effects on the IQ by genetic variation in fatty acid metabolism

    Avshalom Caspi;Benjamin Williams;Julia Kim-Cohen;Ian W. Craig

  • Origins of Individual Differences in Theory of Mind: From Nature to Nurture?

    Claire Hughes;Sara R. Jaffee;Francesca Happé;Alan Taylor

  • Revisiting the association between reading achievement and antisocial behavior: new evidence of an environmental explanation from a twin study.

    Kali H. Trzesniewski;Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor

  • Nature × nurture: Genetic vulnerabilities interact with physical maltreatment to promote conduct problems

    Sara R. Jaffee;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Kenneth A. Dodge

  • My changed body: breast cancer, body image, distress and self-compassion

    Astrid Przezdziecki;Kerry A. Sherman;Kerry A. Sherman;Andrew Baillie;Alan Taylor

  • The prospective course of postconcussion syndrome: The role of mild traumatic brain injury

    Susanne Meares;E. Arthur Shores;Alan J. Taylor;Jennifer Batchelor

  • Neighborhood Deprivation Affects Children's Mental Health: Environmental Risks Identified in a Genetic Design

    Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor;Terrie E. Moffitt;Robert Plomin

  • The limits of child effects: evidence for genetically mediated child effects on corporal punishment but not on physical maltreatment

    Sara R. Jaffee;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Monica Polo-Tomas

  • Strong genetic effects on cross-situational antisocial behaviour among 5-year-old children according to mothers, teachers, examiner-observers, and twins' self-reports

    Louise Arseneault;Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor

  • Fertility- and Menopause-Related Information Needs of Younger Women With a Diagnosis of Early Breast Cancer

    Belinda Thewes;B. Meiser;A. Taylor;K. A. Phillips

  • Good test-retest reliability for standard and advanced false-belief tasks across a wide range of abilities

    Claire Hughes;Anna Adlam;Francesca Happé;Jan Jackson

  • Genetic and environmental influences on victims, bullies and bully-victims in childhood

    Harriet A. Ball;Louise Arseneault;Alan Taylor;Barbara Maughan

  • The protective effects of neighborhood collective efficacy on British children growing up in deprivation: a developmental analysis.

    Candice L. Odgers;Terrie E. Moffitt;Laura Marie Tach;Robert J. Sampson

  • Influence of adult domestic violence on children's internalizing and externalizing problems: an environmentally informative twin study.

    Sara R. Jaffee;Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor

  • Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children. Fears of the future in children und young people

    Avshalom Caspi;Joseph McClay;Terrie E. Moffitt;Jonathan Mill

Frequent Co-Authors

Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi Duke University
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Sara R. Jaffee
Sara R. Jaffee University of Pennsylvania
Louise Arseneault
Louise Arseneault King's College London
Barbara Maughan
Barbara Maughan King's College London
Ian W. Craig
Ian W. Craig King's College London
Jonathan Mill
Jonathan Mill University of Exeter
Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter King's College London
Claire Hughes
Claire Hughes University of Cambridge
David A. Greenberg
David A. Greenberg Nationwide Children's Hospital

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