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Alexander Todorov publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Todorov sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 168 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Alexander Todorov D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Todorov sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexander Todorov is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their primary research fields are Neuroscience and Psychology, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology as subfields. Their work also spans Sociology and Political Science, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's research topics include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Face Recognition and Perception, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Face recognition and analysis, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Recent publications by Alexander Todorov demonstrate a focus on social cognition and face perception:

  • Can we reduce facial biases? Persistent effects of facial trustworthiness on sentencing decisions (2020), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Deep models of superficial face judgments (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Quantifying idiosyncratic and shared contributions to judgment (2020), Behavior Research Methods
  • A neuronal social trait space for first impressions in the human amygdala and hippocampus (2022), Molecular Psychiatry
  • Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus (2020), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors associated with Todorov's work include Stefan Uddenberg, DongWon Oh, Runnan Cao, Shuo Wang, and Chujun Lin.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in various venues, with two or more publications in the following:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Scientific Reports

Alexander Todorov has contributed to book publications, including the title Testing the Creditcoin Blockchain, published by Apress eBooks in 2024.

Best Publications

  • First Impressions Making Up Your Mind After a 100-Ms Exposure to a Face

    Janine Willis;Alexander Todorov

  • The functional basis of face evaluation

    Nikolaas N. Oosterhof;Alexander Todorov

  • Inferences of Competence from Faces Predict Election Outcomes

    Alexander Todorov;Anesu N. Mandisodza;Amir Goren;Crystal C. Hall

  • Social Attributions from Faces: Determinants, Consequences, Accuracy, and Functional Significance

    Alexander Todorov;Christopher Y. Olivola;Ron Dotsch;Peter Mende-Siedlecki

  • Body cues, not facial expressions, discriminate between intense positive and negative emotions

    Hillel Aviezer;Yaacov Trope;Alexander Todorov;Alexander Todorov

  • EvaluaTiNg faCES ON TruSTwOrThiNESS afTEr miNimal TimE ExpOSurE

    Alexander Todorov;Manish Pakrashi;Nikolaas N. Oosterhof

  • Understanding evaluation of faces on social dimensions

    Alexander T. Todorov;Chris P. Said;Andrew D. Engell;Nikolaas N. Oosterhof

  • Elected in 100 milliseconds: Appearance-Based Trait Inferences and Voting

    Christopher Y. Olivola;Alexander Todorov

  • Predicting political elections from rapid and unreflective face judgments

    Charles C. Ballew;Alexander T. Todorov

  • Implicit Trustworthiness Decisions: Automatic Coding of Face Properties in the Human Amygdala

    Andrew D. Engell;James V. Haxby;Alexander Todorov

  • Evaluating face trustworthiness: A model based approach.

    Alexander T. Todorov;Sean G. Baron;Nikolaas N. Oosterhof

  • Evaluating faces on trustworthiness: an extension of systems for recognition of emotions signaling approach/avoidance behaviors.

    Alexander T. Todorov

  • The Heuristic-Systematic Model of Social Information Processing

    Alexander Todorov;Shelly Chaiken;Marlone D. Henderson

  • How Do You Say ‘Hello’? Personality Impressions from Brief Novel Voices

    Phil McAleer;Alexander Todorov;Pascal Belin

  • Fooled by first impressions? Reexamining the diagnostic value of appearance-based inferences

    Christopher Yves Olivola;Alexander Todorov

  • Shared Perceptual Basis of Emotional Expressions and Trustworthiness Impressions From Faces

    Nikolaas N. Oosterhof;Alexander T. Todorov

  • Structural Resemblance to Emotional Expressions Predicts Evaluation of Emotionally Neutral Faces

    Christopher P Said;Nicu Sebe;Alexander Todorov

  • Probability as a psychological distance: Construal and preferences

    Alexander T. Todorov;Amir Goren;Yaacov Trope

  • Spontaneous trait inferences are bound to actors' faces: evidence from a false recognition paradigm.

    Alexander T. Todorov;James S. Uleman

  • Social attributions from faces bias human choices.

    Christopher Y. Olivola;Friederike Funk;Alexander Todorov

  • The efficiency of binding spontaneous trait inferences to actors’ faces

    Alexander T. Todorov;James S. Uleman

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University
A. Peter McGraw
A. Peter McGraw University of Colorado Boulder
Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir Princeton University
Zaira Cattaneo
Zaira Cattaneo University of Milano-Bicocca
Yaacov Trope
Yaacov Trope New York University
James S. Uleman
James S. Uleman New York University
Daniel N. Osherson
Daniel N. Osherson Princeton University
Daniël H. J. Wigboldus
Daniël H. J. Wigboldus Radboud University
Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology
Cheryl L. Grady
Cheryl L. Grady University of Toronto

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