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Sara Hodges, Mentor
Psychology

John Myers, McNair Scholar

Sara Hodges, currently Chair of the Department of Psychology, joined the UO faculty in 1995 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in how people construct judgments in their social worlds. Several lines of investigation derive from that interest: how people make decisions between options with shared and unique characteristics; how does someone construct another person’s perspective; how affective expectations influence memory and evaluation. Recent publications include Other Minds: How Humans Bridge the Divide between Self and Others, Guilford press (with Bertram Malle, eds., 2005); “Fictional People with Minds of Their Own: Characters Created by Adult Novelists and Imaginary Companions Created by Children,” (with M. Taylor and A. Kohanyi), Imagination, Cognition, and Personality (2003); and “It's Different When I Do It: Feature-Matching in Self-Other Comparisons,” (with S.D. Bruininks and L. Ivy) Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2002).