University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
                Research Center for Group Dynamics

 

Scott Atran

Adjunct Research Scientist, Research Center for Group Dynamics
Associate Research Scientist, Anthropology
Adjunct Professor, Psychology Department
Visiting Professor, Ford School of Public Policy
Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Scott Atran
5240 ISR
426 Thompson Street
Phone: 734-936-0458

Research and teaching interests are centered in the following areas: Cognitive and linguistic anthropology, ethnobiology, environmental decision making, categorization and reasoning, evolutionary psychology, anthropology of science (history and philosophy of natural history and natural philosophy); Middle East ethnography and political economy; natural history of Lowland Maya, cognitive and commitment theories of religion, terrorism and foreign affairs.