Andrew Todd | Lab Director

Andy is the director of the Social Inference Lab and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. He received his B.A. in psychology from Michigan State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in social psychology from Northwestern University. Before coming to UC Davis, Andy was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa.
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Austin Simpson | Graduate Student

Austin is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. He received his B.S. in psychology from Bradley University and his M.A. in social psychology from the University of Iowa. Austin primarily conducts research investigating the cognitive processes that underlie perspective-taking. He's also interested in the downstream consequences of perspective-taking (e.g., changes in attitudes toward perspective-taking targets, associated groups, and the self) and in understanding the types of mental states/contents people ascribe to others (e.g., what sorts of minds do adults ascribe to children?).
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Ryan Hutchings ​| Affiliated Graduate Student

Ryan is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. He received his B.S. in Psychology from SUNY Brockport and his M.S. in Psychology from UC Davis. 



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Y. Andre Wang ​| Affiliated Graduate Student

Andre is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. He received his B.A. in psychology from Amherst College and his M.A. in social psychology from UC Davis. He studies how people connect abstract thinking to concrete experience. In particular, his research focuses on 1) the integrative processes underlying abstract and concrete cognition, 2) situations in which those processes fall apart, and 3) their consequences for social behaviors. He has examined these processes involved in prospecting about the future, expressing preferences for attributes, and reasoning about other people's mental states.

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