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#197 Paulo Finuras: Biossociologia, Psicologia Evolutiva e Liderança

Jul 1, 2019

O Dr. Paulo Finuras é Doutorado em Ciências Sociais e do Comportamento (especialidade de Ciência Política) pela ULHT (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias), Pós-graduado em Gestão e Política Internacional e Licenciado em Sociologia (ISCTE-IUL). É investigador na área da Biossociologia e da Psicologia Evolutiva e investigador integrado do CIPES da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais da ULHT. É também autor dos livros “Gestão Intercultural”, “Humanus: pessoas iguais, culturas diferentes”, “O Dilema da Confiança”, “Valores Culturais e (Des)Confiança nas Instituições”, “Primatas Culturais: Evolução e Natureza Humana” e “Bioliderança” (2018). More»
#195 Todd Shackelford: The Evolution and Varieties of Human Violence

Jun 27, 2019

Dr. Todd Shackelford is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology at Oakland University, as well as the Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab there. He is the editor in chief of the academic journals Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Psychological Science. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. More»
#194 Anna Vedel: Personality, Academia, Ageing, And The Gender Equality Paradox

Jun 24, 2019

Dr. Anna Vedel is PhD and Postdoc in the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research areas are in individual differences, personality, academic performance, and study choices. More»
#193 Paul Slovic: Risk Perception, GMOs, Vaccines, And Climate Change

Jun 21, 2019

Dr. Paul Slovic is a founder and President of Decision Research and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, where he studies human judgment, decision making, and risk analysis. He and his colleagues worldwide have developed methods to describe risk perceptions and measure their impacts on individuals, industry, and society. He publishes extensively and serves as a consultant to industry and government. Dr. Slovic is a past President of the Society for Risk Analysis. He’s the recipient of several awards, and he was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. More»
#192 Paulo Gama Mota: The History of Sexual Selection Theory, And Cultural Evolution

Jun 20, 2019

Dr. Paulo Gama Mota is Associate Professor of Biology in the Department of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra. He’s also a researcher at the Center for Research in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources at he University of Porto (CIBIO). Dr. Gama Mota is very interested in science communication, having been a former Director of the National Museum of Science and Technique, and the Museum of Science of the University of Coimbra (2006-2015), and also an organizer of initiatives and science communication exhibitions, as well as citizen science projects. His areas of interest and research include: animal behavior, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and evolutionary anthropology. More»
#191 Susan Blackmore: How Memetics Works

Jun 17, 2019

Dr. Susan Blackmore is a psychologist, lecturer and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. She is best known for her book The Meme Machine, and has written or contributed to over 40 books, mostly on consciousness. More»
#190 Philip Kavanagh: Evolution And Clinical Psychology, Self-Esteem, And The Dark Triad

Jun 14, 2019

Dr. Phillip Kavanagh is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the Institute for Social Neuroscience, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of South Australia. Dr. Kavanagh lectures across both the undergraduate and postgraduate psychology programs, provides research supervision to honors, master's, and PhD students, and clinical supervision to students in the clinical program. More»
#189 Viviana Weekes-Shackelford: Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, And Modern Society

Jun 13, 2019

Dr. Viviana Weekes-Shackelford received her Ph.D. in evolutionary developmental psychology in 2011 from Florida Atlantic University. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology and Criminal Justice at Oakland University and Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab. Her research over the years has been evolutionarily inspired and has had the broader goal of gaining a more comprehensive understanding of violence and conflict in families and romantic relationships. Her research interests and record cut across the psychological domains of forensics, development, social, personality, clinical, and criminology. More»
#187 Robert Trivers: Parental Investment, Reciprocal Altruism, Self-Deception

Jun 7, 2019

Dr. Robert Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist. He proposed the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), facultative sex ratio determination (1973), and parent–offspring conflict (1974). He has also contributed by explaining self-deception as an adaptive evolutionary strategy (first described in 1976) and discussing intragenomic conflict. Steven Pinker considers Dr. Trivers to be "one of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought". He’s also the author of books like Social Evolution (1985), Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements (2006), Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others (2011), and Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist (2015). More»
#186 Felix Warneken: Cooperation And Altruism In Apes And Children

Jun 6, 2019

Dr. Felix Warneken is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He’s interested in Developmental Psychology; Culture; Cognition; and Comparative Animal Behavior. His research group addresses questions like how and why human social life involves complex interactions between individuals working together, and what cognitive skills allow them to do so. They do so by examining the earliest forms of cooperation in young children, untangling the processes shaping cooperation across development in different sociocultural contexts, and comparing human cooperation with that of our closest evolutionary relatives, the great Apes. More»