Governance
| Director: Frances White Executive Committee Members: |
Research Associate: Michelle Sugiyama ICDS Office Specialist II: |
Director
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Frances WhiteDr. White is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences. Her interests include primatology, primate behavior, primate social evolution, quantitative methods and statistics. Home Department: Anthropology |
Executive Committee Members
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Holly ArrowDr. Arrow has two major research interests. The first is the formation and development of small groups as complex dynamic systems. The second is the psychology of war, in particular the evolution of social capacities that help men and women cope with the challenges to survival and reproductive success posed by war. Home Department: Psychology |
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Bill HarbaughDr. Harbaugh studies neuroeconomics, economic behavior of children, and experimental economics. Home Department: Economics |
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Sara HodgesDr. Hodges studies how people construct judgments in social contexts: how do we form an understanding about the people and things around us, and how do we organize social information? Home Department: Psychology |
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Larry SugiyamaDr. Sugiyama is Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences. He is a cultural anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist and human behavioral ecologist who works at the intersection of cultural and physical anthropology, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and cognitive psychology, asking questions about the nature and evolution of the human mind and the effects of this evolution upon behavior and culture. Home Department: Anthropology |
Research Associate
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Michelle SugiyamaDr. Scalise Sugiyama received her PhD from UC Santa Barbara, where she combined literary study with training at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. Her work examines narrative as behavior; she is particularly interested in why and when humans began telling and listening to stories. E-mail address: mscalise@uoregon.edu |
ICDS Office Specialist II
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Vonda EvansE-mail address: vevans@uoregon.edu |






