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Bertram Malle, Mentor
Psychology

Donovan Long, McNair Scholar

Bertram Malle, Associate Professor of Psychology, was born and educated in Graz, Austria, before coming to the United States in 1990. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1994 and joined the UO faculty the same year. Also the Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Malle focuses his research on social cognition and folk theory of the mind, exploring such issues as intentionality judgments, explanations, predictions, and moral sentiments. Professor Malle’s research has been funded by such agencies as the the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. Recent publications include Intentions and intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition (with L. J. Moses and D. A. Baldwin, eds.), MIT Press, 2001; The Evolution of Language Out of Pre-language (with T. Givón, eds.), Benjamins, 2002; “Folk Theory of Mind: Conceptual Foundations of Human Social Cognition,” in R. Hassin, J. S. Uleman, & J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The New Unconscious, Oxford University Press (in press); and How the Mind Explains Behavior: Folk Explanations, Meaning, and Social Interaction, MIT Press (forthcoming).