psychology

#1095 Robert Krueger: Classification of Mental Disorders, and Mental Wellbeing

May 9, 2025

Dr. Robert Krueger is Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His specialties include behavior genetics, clinical and personality psychology, quantitative psychology, personality disorders, aging, and health. He is one of the most highly cited psychologists in the world. He is part of the leadership of an international project, The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), which aims to articulate a taxonomy of symptoms that provide researchers and practitioners with a means to describe an individual’s mental health issues, as well as their major and minor symptoms, along a spectrum. More»
#1092 Mads Larsen: Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse

May 2, 2025

Dr. Mads Larsen is a Postdoc and Researcher at the University of Oslo. He a is literary scholar who uses evolutionary perspectives to study cultural change. He is the author of Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder: The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse. More»
#1090 Daniel Conroy-Beam: How the Manosphere Misuses Evolutionary Psychology

Apr 28, 2025

Dr. Daniel Conroy-Beam is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He uses an evolutionary perspective to understand how mate preferences are linked to actual mating outcomes. Specifically, he is interested in how mate preferences are integrated with one another computationally in order to make mating decisions. More»
#1079 Christopher Federico: Political Preferences, Belief Systems, Collective Narcissism, & More

Apr 3, 2025

Dr. Christopher Federico is Professor of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as President of the International Society of Political Psychology. His research focuses in particular on the nature of ideology and belief systems, the psychological foundations of political preferences, and intergroup attitudes. He is co-author (with Christopher Johnston and Howard Lavine) of Open Versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution, and a co-editor of the volumes At the Forefront of Political Psychology: Essays in Honor of John L. Sullivan, and The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship. More»
#1078 Debra Lieberman: The Evolutionary Psychology of Disgust, Gratitude, and Emotional Tears

Mar 31, 2025

Dr. Debra Lieberman is Professor and has served as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs and Research in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. Her research aims to understand how evolution has shaped the social mind and includes work on kinship, cooperation, sexuality, groups, morality, and emotions. She is the author of Objection: Disgust, Morality, and the Law. More»
#1077 Blaine Fowers: The Science of Virtue

Mar 28, 2025

Dr. Blaine Fowers is Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Miami. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. His primary scholarly interest is in exploring the ethical dimension of psychology, both in research and practice. He is coauthor (together with Bradford Cokelet and Nathan Leonhardt) of The Science of Virtue: A Framework for Research. More»
#1072 Steven Heine: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times

Mar 17, 2025

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#1063 Menelaos Apostolou: The Evolution of Singlehood

Feb 24, 2025

Dr. Menelaos Apostolou is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He was born in Athens, Greece and he completed his post-graduate and graduate studies in the United Kingdom. He has published several peer-reviewed papers, books and chapters in books in the area of evolutionary psychology. More»
#1055 Michael Axelrod - Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies in School Psychology

Feb 6, 2025

Dr. Michael Axelrod is Director of the Human Development Center and a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and Licensed Psychologist. He is editor of Investigating School Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies. More»
#1052 Avgi Saketopoulou: Sexuality Beyond Consent

Jan 30, 2025

Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC and a member of the faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia. More»