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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter M. Todd is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within psychology and neuroscience, with a strong focus on understanding cognitive processes and human behavior through experimental and theoretical approaches.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, their subfields of expertise encompass:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

The topics frequently addressed in their work are:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Organic Food and Agriculture

Peter M. Todd has coauthored papers with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Athena Aktipis
  • Diego Guevara Beltrán
  • Jessica D. Ayers
  • Andrew Van Horn
  • Lee Cronk

Their recent publication record includes works across a variety of peer-reviewed journals and venues. Key recent papers are:

  • Foraging in Mind, 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Agricultural decision making and climate uncertainty in developing countries, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Neural evidence of switch processes during semantic and phonetic foraging in human memory, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Semantic Search in Psychosis: Modeling Local Exploitation and Global Exploration, 2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin Open
  • In which environments is impulsive behavior adaptive? A cross-discipline review and integration of formal models., 2022, Psychological Bulletin

The frequent publication venues where Peter M. Todd's work appears include:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In recognition of their contributions, Peter M. Todd was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Peter M. Todd

  • Can There Ever Be Too Many Options? A Meta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload

    Benjamin Scheibehenne;Rainer Greifeneder;Peter M. Todd

  • Designing neural networks using genetic algorithms

    Geoffrey F. Miller;Peter M. Todd;Shailesh U. Hegde

  • Précis of "Simple heuristics that make us smart"

    Peter M. Todd;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World

    Peter M. Todd;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society

    Thomas Trenholm Hills;Peter M. Todd;David Lazer;David Lazer;A. David Redish

  • Bounding rationality to the world

    Peter M. Todd;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Environments That Make Us Smart Ecological Rationality

    Peter M. Todd;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences.

    Peter M. Todd;Lars Penke;Barbara Fasolo;Alison P. Lenton

  • Mate choice turns cognitive

    Geoffrey F Miller;Peter M Todd

  • Optimal foraging in semantic memory

    Thomas Trenholm Hills;Michael N. Jones;Peter M. Todd

  • Unpacking the exploration–exploitation tradeoff: A synthesis of human and animal literatures.

    Sabine Mehlhorn;Ben R Newell;Peter M Todd;Michael D Lee

  • Fast and frugal food choices : uncovering individual decision heuristics

    Benjamin Scheibehenne;Linda Miesler;Peter M. Todd

  • Fast and frugal heuristics for environmentally bounded minds

    Peter M. Todd

  • Learning and connectionist representations

    David E. Rumelhart;Peter M. Todd

  • Accurate judgments of intention from motion cues alone: A cross-cultural study

    H. Clark Barrett;Peter M. Todd;Geoffrey F. Miller;Philip W. Blythe

  • From pride and prejudice to persuasion : Satisficing in mate search

    Peter M. Todd;Geoffrey F. Miller

  • What Moderates the Too-Much-Choice Effect?

    Benjamin Scheibehenne;Rainer Greifeneder;Peter M. Todd

  • Music and Connectionism

    Peter M. Todd;D. Gareth Loy;Louis P. DiPalma;David J. Hamilton

  • How motion reveals intention: Categorizing social interactions

    Philip W. Blythe;Peter M. Todd;Geoffrey F. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Geoffrey F. Miller
Geoffrey F. Miller University of New Mexico
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Lars Penke
Lars Penke University of Göttingen
Robert L. Goldstone
Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University
Jens B. Asendorpf
Jens B. Asendorpf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ralph Hertwig
Ralph Hertwig Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Simon Kirby
Simon Kirby University of Edinburgh
Sonia Lippke
Sonia Lippke Jacobs University
John K. Kruschke
John K. Kruschke Indiana University

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