Bertram F. Malle
Department of Psychology
Brown University
89 Waterman Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
U.S.A.
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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 received the 2005 Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award and a National Science Foundation CAREER award 1997-2001. He is currently President 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.
 Books:
- Malle, B. F. (2004). How the mind explains behavior: Folk explanations, meaning, and social interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
 Malle, B. F., & Hodges, S. D. (Eds.). (2005). Other minds: How humans bridge the divide between self and others. New York: Guilford Press.
- Malle, B. F., Moses, L. J., & Baldwin, D. A. (Eds.). (2001). Intentions and intentionality: Foundations of social cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Journal Articles:
- Malle, B. F. (2008a). Fritz Heider’s legacy: Celebrated insights, many of them misunderstood. Social Psychology, 39, 163-173.
- Malle, B. F. (2006b). The actor-observer asymmetry in causal attribution: A (surprising) meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 895-919.
- Malle, B. F. (2006). The relation between judgments of intentionality and morality. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6, 61-86.
- Malle, B. F. (1999). How people explain behavior: A new theoretical framework. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 3, 23-48.
- Malle, B. F., & Knobe, J. (1997a). The folk concept of intentionality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33, 101-121.
- Malle, B. F., Knobe, J., & Nelson, S. (2007). Actor-observer asymmetries in behavior explanations: New answers to an old question. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 491-514.
- Malle, B. F., Knobe, J., O’Laughlin, M., Pearce, G. E., & Nelson, S. E. (2000). Conceptual structure and social functions of behavior explanations: Beyond person-situation attributions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 309-326.
- Malle, B. F., & Nelson, S. E. (2003). Judging mens rea: The tension between folk concepts and legal concepts of intentionality. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 21, 563-580.
- Malle, B. F., & Pearce, G. E. (2001). Attention to behavioral events during social interaction: Two actor-observer gaps and three attempts to close them. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 278-294.
- O’Laughlin, M. J., &. Malle, B. F. (2002). How people explain actions performed by groups and individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 33-48.
Other Publications:
- Malle, B. F. (2008b). The fundamental tools, and possibly universals, of social cognition. In R. Sorrentino & S. Yamaguchi (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition across cultures (pp. 267-296). New York: Elsevier/Academic Press.
- Malle, B. F. (2005). Folk theory of mind: Conceptual foundations of human social cognition. In R. Hassin, J. S. Uleman, & J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The new unconscious. New York: Oxford University Press.
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