Antonio Terracciano
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Before joining the Department of Geriatrics, Dr. Terracciano was a staff scientist at the National Institute on Aging, NIH. His research focuses on how psychological traits and genetic factors contribute to physical and mental health across the lifespan. Dr. Terracciano uses longitudinal and cross-cultural methodologies to examine changes in traits with age, from adolescence to older adulthood. Dr. Terracciano has also led or participated in large collaborative genome-wide association studies to identify common genetic variants associated with personality traits, depression, and cigarette smoking. His research aims to individuate factors that contribute to health and longevity, by reducing health risk behaviors and promoting resilience against diseases of aging, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Primary Interests:
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Evolution and Genetics
- Gender Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Person Perception
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
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Journal Articles:
- Costa, P. T., Jr., Terracciano, A., & McCrae, R. R. (2001). Gender differences in personality traits across cultures: Robust and surprising findings. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 322-331.
- McCrae, R. R., Terracciano, A., & 78 Members of the Personality Profiles of Cultures Project. (2005). Universal features of personality traits from the observer's perspective: Data from 50 cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 547-561.
- McCrae, R. R., Terracciano, A., Realo, A., & Allik, J. (2007). Climatic warmth and national wealth: Some culture-level determinants of national character stereotypes. European Journal of Personality, 21, 953-976.
- Sutin, A.R., Scuteri A., Lakatta, A. G., Tarasov, K. V., Ferrucci, L., Costa, P. T. Jr., Schlessinger, D., Uda, M., & Terracciano, A. (2010). Trait antagonism and the progression of arterial thickening: Women with antagonistic traits have similar carotid arterial thickness as men. Hypertension, 56, 617-622.
- Sutin A. R., Terracciano, A., Deiana, B., Naitza, S., Ferrucci, L., Uda, M., Schlessinger, D., & Costa, P. T. Jr. (2010). High neuroticism and low conscientiousness are associated with interleukin-6. Psychological Medicine, 40, 1485-1493.
- Terracciano, A. (2010). Secular trends and personality: Perspectives from longitudinal and cross-cultural studies. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(1), 93-96.
- Terracciano, A., Abdel-Khalek, A. M., Adam, N., Adamovova, L., Ahn, C. K., Ahn, H. N., et al. (2005). National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures. Science, 310, 96-100.
- Terracciano, A., Balaci, L., Thayer, J., Scally, M., Kokinos, S., Ferrucci, L., et al. (2009). Variants of the serotonin transporter gene and NEO-PI-R Neuroticism: No association in the BLSA and SardiNIA samples. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics.
- Terracciano, A., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (2004). Smoking and the Five-Factor Model of personality. Addiction, 99, 472-481.
- Terracciano, A., Loeckenhoff, C. E., Crum, R. M., Bienvenu, R. J., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (2008). Five-Factor Model personality profiles of drug users. BMC Psychiatry, 8, 22.
- Terracciano, A., Loeckenhoff, C. E., Zonderman, A. B., Ferrucci, L., & Costa P. T., Jr. (2008). Personality predictors of longevity: Activity, Emotional Stability, and Conscientiousness. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 621-627.
- Terracciano, A., & McCrae, R. R. (2007). Perceptions of Americans and the Iraq invasion: Implications for understanding national character stereotypes. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38, 695-710.
- Terracciano, A., & McCrae, R. R. (2006). Cross-cultural studies of personality traits and their relevance to psychiatry. Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale, 15, 176-84.
- Terracciano, A., & McCrae, R. R. (2006). How to measure national stereotypes? Response. Science, 311, 777-779.
- Terracciano, A., McCrae, R. R., Brant, L. J., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (2005). Hierarchical linear modeling analyses of NEO-PI-R scales in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Psychology and Aging, 20, 493-506.
- Terracciano, A., McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (2006). Personality plasticity after age 30. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- Terracciano, A., Sanna, S., Uda, M., Deiana, B., Usala, G., Busonero, F., Maschio, A., Scally, M., Patriciu, N., Chen, W., Distel, M. A., Slagboo, P. E., Boomsma, D. I., Villafuerte, S., Śliwerska, E., Burmeister, M., Amin, N., Janssens, A. C. J. W., van Duijn, C. M., Schlessinger, D., Abecasis, G. R., & Costa, P. T. Jr. (2010). Genome-wide association scan for five major dimensions of personality. Molecular Psychiatry, 15, 647-656.
- Terracciano, A., Sutin, A. R., McCrae, R. R., Deiana, B., Ferrucci, L., Schlessinger, D., Uda, M., & Costa, P. T. Jr. (2009). Facets of personality linked to underweight and overweight. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 682-689.
- Terracciano, A., Tanaka, T., Sutin, A. R., Deiana, B., Balaci, L., Sanna, S., Olla, N., Maschio, A., Uda, M., Ferrucci, L., Schlessinger, D., & Costa, P. T. Jr. (2010). BDNF Val66Met is associated with Introversion and interacts with 5-HTTLPR to influence neuroticism. Neuropsychopharmacology, 35, 1083-1089.
- Terracciano, A., Tanaka, T., Sutin, A. R., Sanna, S., Deiana, B., Lai, S., Uda, M., Schlessinger, D., Abecasis, G. R., Ferrucci, L., & Costa, P. T. Jr. (2010). Genome-wide association scan of trait depression. Biological Psychiatry, 68, 811-817.
Antonio Terracciano
Department of Geriatrics
Florida State University College of Medicine
1115 West Call Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
United States of America
- Phone: (850) 645-0355
