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University of Oregon

Governance

Director:
Frances White 

Executive Committee Members:
Holly Arrow
Bill Harbaugh
Sara Hodges
Larry Sugiyama

Research Associate:
Michelle Sugiyama 

ICDS Office Specialist II:
Vonda Evans


 

Director

Frances White

Frances White

Dr. 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
E-mail: fwhite@uoregon.edu
Website: http://pages.uoregon.edu/fwhite/


 

Executive Committee Members

Holly Arrow

Dr. 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
E-mail address: harrow@uoregon.edu
Web Page: http://groupsandwar.uoregon.edu/Profiles/Holly%20Arrow/Arrow.html

 

Bill Harbaugh

Dr. Harbaugh studies neuroeconomics, economic behavior of children, and experimental economics.

Home Department: Economics
E-mail address: harbaugh@uoregon.edu
Web Page: harbaugh.uoregon.edu

 

Sara Hodges

Dr. 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
E-mail address: sdhodges@uoregon.edu
Web Page: http://pages.uoregon.edu/hodgeslab/

 

 

Larry Sugiyama

Dr. 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
E-mail:sugiyama@uoregon.edu
Website: http://www.pinniped.net/snodgrass.html

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Research Associate

Michelle Sugiyama

Dr. 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
Web Page: pages.uoregon.edu/mscalise/

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ICDS Office Specialist II

Vonda Evans

E-mail address: vevans@uoregon.edu

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