List of evolutionary psychologists
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The following is a list of evolutionary psychologists
or prominent contributors to the field of evolutionary psychology
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Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is an approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as memory, perception, and language from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations, that is, the functional...
or prominent contributors to the field of evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is an approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as memory, perception, and language from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations, that is, the functional...
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- Jerome BarkowJerome H. BarkowJerome H. Barkow is a Canadian anthropologist at Dalhousie University who has made important contributions to the field of evolutionary psychology. He received a B.A. in Psychology from Brooklyn College in 1964 and a Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Chicago in 1970...
- H. Clark Barrett
- Pascal BoyerPascal BoyerPascal Boyer is a French anthropologist, and Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University in St. Louis.He is a Guggenheim Fellow.-Work:...
- David F. BjorklundDavid F. BjorklundDavid F. Bjorklund is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. His areas of research interest include cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology. His works include authoring several books and over 130 scientific papers...
- Howard BloomHoward BloomHoward Bloom is an American author. He was a publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx. In 1988 he became disabled with chronic fatigue syndrome...
- David BussDavid BussDavid M. Buss is a professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, known for his evolutionary psychology research on human sex differences in mate selection.-Biography:...
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- Martin DalyMartin DalyMartin Daly is a Professor of Psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and author of many influential papers on evolutionary psychology. Current research topics include an evolutionary perspective on risk-taking and interpersonal violence, especially male-male conflict and...
- Richard DawkinsRichard DawkinsClinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
- Terrence DeaconTerrence DeaconTerrence William Deacon is an American anthropologist . He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and is currently Professor of Biological Anthropology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley.-Theoretical interests:Prof...
- Daniel C. Dennett
- Robin DunbarRobin DunbarRobin Ian MacDonald Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist and a specialist in primate behaviour. He is currently Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and the Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology of the University of Oxford and the...
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- Edward Hagen
- William D. Hamilton
- Martie G. Haselton
- Marc HauserMarc HauserMarc D. Hauser is an American evolutionary biologist and a researcher in primate behavior and animal cognition who taught in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. In August 2010, a committee of Harvard faculty found Hauser solely responsible for eight counts of unspecified scientific...
- Nicholas HumphreyNicholas HumphreyProfessor Nicholas Keynes Humphrey is an English psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging...
- Sarah Blaffer HrdySarah Blaffer HrdySarah Hrdy is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made several major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.-Early life:...
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- Kevin B. MacDonaldKevin B. MacDonaldKevin B. MacDonald is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for his use of evolutionary psychology to inform his study of Judaism as being a "group evolutionary strategy."...
- Richard MachalekRichard MachalekRichard Machalek is a social theorist, sociobiologist, and professor of sociology.A student and colleague of sociobiologist E.O...
- Geoffrey MillerGeoffrey Miller (evolutionary psychologist)Geoffrey F. Miller , Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, is an American evolutionary psychologist.Miller is a 1987 graduate of Columbia University, where he earned a B.A. in biology and psychology. He received his PhD in cognitive psychology from Stanford University...
- Desmond MorrisDesmond MorrisDesmond John Morris, born 24 January 1928 in Purton, north Wiltshire, is a British zoologist and ethologist, as well as a popular anthropologist. He is also known as a painter, television presenter and popular author.-Life:...
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- Gad SaadGad SaadGad Saad is an evolutionary behavioral scientist and Professor of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business . He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption . He was recently appointed an advisory fellow of the Center for...
- Mark SchallerMark SchallerMark Schaller is a psychological scientist who has made many contributions to the study of human psychology, particularly in areas of social cognition, stereotyping, evolutionary psychology, and cultural psychology. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.Schaller was...
- David P. SchmittDavid P. SchmittDavid P. Schmitt is a personality psychologist who founded the International Sexuality Description Project . The ISDP is the largest-ever cross-cultural research study on sex and personality. Over 100 psychologists simultaneously administered an anonymous self-report survey to 17,837 individuals...
- Nancy SegalNancy SegalNancy L. Segal is a prominent American evolutionary psychologist and behavioral geneticist, specializing in the study of twins.-Education:Dr...
- Todd K. Shackelford
- John SkoylesJohn Skoyles (scientist)John Skoyles is a dyslexic neuroscientist and evolutionary psychologist. He initially studied philosophy of science at the London School of Economics and then did MRC funded research upon neuroscience and dyslexia at University College London....
- Donald SymonsDonald SymonsDonald Symons is an American anthropologist who is best known as one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, and for pioneering the study of human sexuality from an evolutionary perspective...
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- George C. WilliamsGeorge C. WilliamsProfessor George Christopher Williams was an American evolutionary biologist.Williams was a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. The work of Williams in this area, along with W. D...
- David Sloan WilsonDavid Sloan WilsonDavid Sloan Wilson is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is a son of the author Sloan Wilson.-Academic career:...
- Glenn WilsonGlenn Wilson (psychologist)Glenn Daniel Wilson is a psychologist best known for his work on attitude and personality measurement, sexual attraction, deviation and dysfunction, partner compatibility, and psychology applied to performing arts.In 2001, Wilson was ranked among the 10 most frequently cited British psychologists...
- Margo WilsonMargo WilsonMargo Wilson was Professor of Psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Along with her husband and frequent research partner Martin Daly, she wrote many influential papers and books in the field of evolutionary psychology...
- Lance WorkmanLance WorkmanLance Workman is a senior lecturer and subject leader for psychology at Bath Spa University. His teaching specialisms include biological psychology, clinical psychology and evolutionary psychology....
- Robert WrightRobert Wright (journalist)Robert Wright is an American journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their Gods:...