Provost Professor Cognitive Science, Informatics, and Psychology Web: https://cogs.indiana.edu/directory/faculty/profile.html?faculty=pmtodd

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

Current 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
• Artificial life approaches to music
• Making decisions about food and eating, and cognition of consumption