LabCompass

Peter M. Todd

Social Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationDecision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsEvolutionary Psychology and Human BehaviorExperimental Behavioral Economics StudiesPsychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Publications

343

Citations

17,111

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

38

Publishing since 1989

Research summary
AI-generated

Peter M. Todd studies how people make decisions, cooperate, and search for information, drawing on ideas from evolutionary psychology and behavioral economics. His recent work covers topics such as how helping others builds empathy, cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic, children's strategic exploration, and how search strategies appear in both humans and AI language models. The research combines psychological experiments with formal models of behavior across different environments.

Decision-making and behavioral economicsCooperation and helping behaviorEvolutionary psychology of human behaviorSearch and information foraging strategiesAdaptive behavior across environments

Publication activity has been fairly steady over the past decade, averaging around seven papers per year with some year-to-year fluctuation.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.8/year recently
2017: 5 publications172018: 9 publications182019: 6 publications192020: 11 publications11202021: 10 publications212022: 10 publications222023: 8 publications232024: 4 publications242025: 4 publications252026: 8 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library)×4
  • Cognitive Science×2
  • Personality and Individual Differences×2
  • Behavior Research Methods×2
  • Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

Claim or correct this profile