Peter Todd: Cognitive Science Program: Indiana University Bloomington
Field of study
- Cognitive mechanisms that people use to make decisions about adaptively important resources—including social partners, information, and food—in space and time, both present and future
Education
- Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University, 1992
- MA, Psychology, UC San Diego, 1987
- MPhil, Computer Speech and Language Processing, Cambridge University, 1986
- BA, Mathematics, Oberlin College, 1985
Research interests
- Simple heuristics for decision making, and how they capitalize on the structure of information in environments
- Evolution of behavior (experimental approaches to evolutionary psychology and computer simulations of simple organisms adapting to different environmental structures, both physical and social)
- Emergence of environment structure through interactions of populations of agents following simple behavioral rules
- How people and other animals search for resources in time and space, from sequential search for mates or jobs to foraging for prey or parking spaces
- Thinking about the future
- Making decisions about food and eating, and cognition of consumption