Lab Director
Sara Hodges
Sara is an associate professor at the University of Oregon. Sara studies how people construct judgments of their social world. She is interested in the “building blocks” that people use to form attitudes and make decisions about the people and things around them, and how this information is organized.
Current Graduate Students
Brian Clark
Brian is a fourth year doctoral student. Brian is currently studying hypocrisy, with a particular focus on morally-relevant issues therein, from two angles: 1) understanding how and why adhering to moral intuitions, personal beliefs, and expressed attitudes conflicts with self-interest and other moral intuitions (basically, what makes people hypocrites) and 2) understanding how and why people attribute hypocrisy as an explanation of others’ behavior (basically, what makes people call other people hypocrites).
Devin Howington
Devin is a third year doctoral student. Devin is interested in the processes involved in understanding others and the effects those processes have on interpersonal relations.
Colton Christian
Colton is a second year master’s student. For his master’s project, Colton is examining the relationship between ratings and reaction times for self, other, and comparative judgments. Other projects that Colton is working on include a study examining the relationship between emotion, cognitive load, and projection, as well as a study examining the effects of experience and expectation on empathic accuracy.
Hadley Morotti
Hadley is a first year master’s student. Her research interests include how people understand and use health information to make decisions, as well as differences in how that information is applied to the self and to others.
PhD Alumni
Kristi Kiel
Adam Kramer
Sean Laurent
Michael Myers
Masters Alumni
Anna Bell
Patty Bruininks
Tom Hollenstein
Nicole Lawless
John Myers
Ernest Park
Vivien Pong
Nate Scott
Charlotte Tate
Darya Veach
Honors Thesis Alumni
Renee Ahnert Anna Bell Barbara Cichosz Sadie Concepcion Cara Dick Brooke Hallinan Chris Hansen Amy Hudkins Linda Ivy Andy Kohnen Caleb Kowarsky Irina Kuzmina Bethany Lassetter Blake Locher Sara Loitz Dan MacLellan Molly Martini Tim Matthews Nicole McElhaney Hadley Morotti John Myers Camilla Nermoen Brian Ooi Elise Peltier Carissa Sharp Si-hyun Shim Alex Stanton Kim Tucker Chris Valentine Kevin Wiles