“…Unfortunately, replication studies and several meta-analyses produced conflicting results (Bleys, Luyten, Soenens, & Claes, 2018;Culverhouse et al, 2018), often attributed to false positives as a consequence of low statistical power (Border et al, 2019). Beyond depression, however, there is converging evidence from more process-oriented meta-analyses which support that the 5-HTTLPR plays a role in more basic physiological reactivity and affective functioning, even when publication bias is considered (Agüero-tejado, 2014;Murphy et al, 2013;Pergamin-Hight, Bakermans-Kranenburg, van Ijzendoorn, & Bar-Haim, 2012). These robust effects corroborate that the 5-HTTLPR is a viable candidate to test competitive theories concerning the function of the serotonin system.…”