BERTRAM F. MALLE

Professor' Malle's research examines the cognitive tools that humans bring to social interaction (often called "social cognition"), especially the capacity to recognize intentional actions, make inferences about other people's mental states, and explain and morally evaluate human behavior. Other topics of interest include the relation between social cognition and language, the structure and function of human values, and people's conceptions of consciousness and free will.

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Biography

Bertram F. Malle was trained in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics at the University of Graz, Austria, and received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1995. Between 1994 and 2008 he was Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon and served there as Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences from 2001 to 2007. Since September 2008 he is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. He is currently President-elect of the Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Author of over 50 articles and chapters, he has also co-edited three published volumes, Intentions and intentionality (2001, MIT Press), The evolution of language out of pre-language (2002, Benjamins), and Other minds (2005, Guilford), and he has authored the monograph How the mind explains behavior (2004, MIT Press). His current book project is entitled Social Cognitive Science.

Curricum Vitae

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BERTRAM F. MALLE, Ph.D. (2005)
Professor of Psychology
Psychology

E-mail: Bertram_Malle@brown.edu

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