Gerianne Alexander

About

Gerianne Alexander is an Associate Vice President for Research & RIO and a Professor at Texas A&M University in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the development of human sex differences in social and cognitive behavior, hormonal influences on typical and atypical behavior across the lifespan, and reproductive endocrinology and behavior. She is involved in exploring how hormonal factors impact social and cognitive development, contributing to the understanding of biological influences on behavior.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Data Mining
• Sociology
• Engineering
• Theoretical physics
• Epistemology
• Virology
• History

Selected publications

• Sex Differences in Early Infancy

  Child Development Perspectives · 2012-06-07 · 98 citations

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  Abstract Sex-linked behaviors in infancy have generated a great deal of interest, in part because they offer a way of assessing the extent to which sexually dimorphic behaviors exist before extensive social and educational experiences. This article reviews sex differences in basic and sensory processes, social behavior, and cognitive behavior that have been reported during the 1st year of life, and discusses current knowledge about the underlying basis for these differences and the extent to whi…

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• Motivational value and salience of images of infants

  Evolution and Human Behavior · 2013-08-02 · 49 citations

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• Postnatal Testosterone Concentrations and Male Social Development

  Frontiers in Endocrinology · 2014-01-01 · 47 citations

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  Converging evidence from over 40 years of behavioral research indicates that higher testicular androgens in prenatal life and at puberty contribute to the masculinization of human behavior. However, the behavioral significance of the transient activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis in early postnatal life remains largely unknown. Although early research on non-human primates indicated that suppression of the postnatal surge in testicular androgens had no measurable effects o…

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• Early androgens, activity levels and toy choices of children in the second year of life

  Hormones and Behavior · 2012-08-30 · 35 citations

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• Postnatal testosterone levels and disorder relevant behavior in the second year of life

  Biological Psychology · 2013-05-28 · 29 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R21MH071414

  NIH · $346k · 2007

• Eye-tracking Studies of Gender Development

  NSF · $480k · 2006–2011

• NIH Grant R03MH058381

  NIH · $32k · 1999

Frequent coauthors

• John H. Himes

  University of Minnesota

  25 shared

• Joanne Mor

  Kaiser Permanente

  25 shared

• Michael D. Kogan

  University of New Mexico

  25 shared

• R H Kaufman

  Ferring Pharmaceuticals (United States)

  25 shared

• D. Stevens

  AgResearch

  20 shared

• Mark G. Packard

  Texas A&M University

  13 shared

• Bradley S. Peterson

  University of Southern California

  13 shared

• Ronald S. Swerdloff

  Harbor–UCLA Medical Center

  12 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Psychology

  McGill University

  1991

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