Jan 4, 2018

Are Modern Businesses a Mismatch?

The current appeal of boss-less organizations may be more than just a fad; instead it probably reflects a deeper desire for the organizational structures of the past.

Dec 22, 2017

Thinking Clearly About Collective Intelligence: A Conversation with Geoff Mulgan about his new book Big Mind

A conversation with Geoff Mulgan, founder of the think tank Demos and current chief executive of Nesta, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, on his new book "Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World".

May 3, 2017

Learning from Religion about Social Cells

What can religion teach us about the nature of human social groups?

Feb 1, 2017

A Groundhog Day Lesson About Fake News

What can groundhogs teach us about our fake news epidemic?

Apr 23, 2016

What Did Shakespeare Understand About the Human Mind?

Shakespeare understood, implicitly, what modern psychology has found: that human beings have a habit of making decisions based more on their intuitions and emotions than on their cognitive reasoning.

Apr 8, 2016

Doping to Win? Cheating and the Sporting Mind

Like politicians’ views of the truth, athletes believe that the morality of drug use is a matter of perspective, where ethics bends to pragmatism.

Mar 17, 2016

Should Evolution be Taught in Elementary School?

Nearly half of the U.S. population rejects evolution. Recent research suggests that teaching evolution to elementary aged children may help tip the scales.

Mar 8, 2016

Evolution Shows Us That Nurture & Love Are Fundamental To Mental Health

Evolution helps explain why the need for love and nurture is key in creating a childhood that makes humans happy and productive throughout their lives.

Mar 2, 2016

When Democracy Meets the Ghost of Evolution: Why Short Presidents Have Vanished

Size matters in politics: America hasn’t seen a president shorter than 5’7” since William McKinley. A main culprit, unbeknownst to many, comes from voters’ cognitive biases—the work of evolution. And the conundrum took a theatrical turn early this year when Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential hopeful, was spotted wearing a pair of new boots. #bootgate

Feb 11, 2016

What was Darwin Thinking? A Lesson From The Psychology of Evolution

While you may have heard of evolutionary psychology, this article is actually about the psychology of evolution itself. That is, the study of how evolutionary thinking develops and thrives across our social species, Charles Darwin being one particularly interesting case study.

Feb 11, 2016

Why Darwin’s Tree of Life is a Cognitively Compelling Icon of Evolution

This Darwin Day, consider investing in a tree-of-life tee-shirt or a tree-of-life necklace or even a tree-of-life tattoo. You’ll be honoring Darwin’s legacy while also conveying a cognitively apt representation of evolution to the public at large.

Feb 2, 2016

BBS, Brains, and the Pain of Altruism: An Interview with Barbara Finlay

The co-editor of the #1 academic Journal in the Behavioral Sciences shares her views on Evolutionary Psychology.

Jul 2, 2015

The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution

Jun 15, 2015

Evolutionary Psychology Through A Developmental Lens

Jun 1, 2015

The Adapted Mind Of An Evolutionary Psychologist. A Conversation With Debra Lieberman

May 6, 2015

What Isn't Evolutionary Psychology?

Mar 30, 2015

The Spandrels Of San Marco Revisited: An Interview With Richard C. Lewontin

Mar 26, 2015

All Psychology is Evolutionary Psychology

If we’re doing psychology, therefore, then we’re also doing evolutionary psychology: we’re trying to understand evolved adaptations—and their mental, behavioral, and cultural products and by-products—and our ability to do so is enhanced through the invocation of evolutionary principles.

Mar 9, 2015

Darwin In Your Brain. Four Reasons Why Evolutionary Psychology Is Controversial

Feb 26, 2015

What Is Wrong With Evolutionary Psychology? Nothing

Feb 23, 2015

Be Curious, Be Darwinian. Why Evolution Provides The Deepest Explanation For Human Behavior.

Feb 23, 2015

What Is Evolutionary Psychology?

Oct 17, 2014

Beauty is in the In-Group of the Beholded

Attraction is more than physical traits. Find out what else counts.Attraction is more than physical traits. Find out what else counts.

Feb 7, 2014

Books are Maps of Nature, Screens are Maps of Nothing

Our Stone Age brains never had or needed a way to process written symbolic language.

Sep 25, 2013

Is Evolutionary Psychology WEIRD Or NORMAL?

Does evolutionary psychology misrepresent human nature?

Jul 30, 2013

Darwinism’s Frontier – The Human Mind

Why using an evolutionary approach to understanding the mind is crucial.

May 15, 2013

Geoffrey Miller: ‘Why The Seduction Crowd Picked Up On My Work’

The allure of evolutionary psychology for the dating world.

May 12, 2013

Evolving the Future

We are closer to a science of intentional change than one might think.With three members of the EI’s Scientific Advisory Board, Steven C. Hayes, Anthony Biglan, and Dennis D. Embry, we have written a review article titled “Evolving the Future: Toward a Science of Intentional Change”, which will be published in the commentary journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS).

Apr 9, 2013

Does Penis Size Matter? A New Study Says Yes

How important is penis size?

Mar 16, 2013

When Humans Started Drinking Beer

Did beer help us become a more social species?

Feb 18, 2013

Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain

The project holds the potential of paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence.

Feb 13, 2013

Owl Monkeys Shed Light on Evolution of Love

Tiny primates form close bonds that may be foundation of human relationships.

Feb 13, 2013

The Psychology Of Why Cyclists Enrage Car Drivers

I've got a theory, of course. It's not because cyclists are annoying.

Feb 5, 2013

The Brilliance of the Dog Mind

New science reveals the multiple intelligences of mankind’s best friend.

Feb 2, 2013

Is Scientific Genius Extinct? One Expert Thinks So

Modern-day science has little room for the likes of Galileo or Charles Darwin, he argues.

Feb 2, 2013

Why Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats

Research in recent years has finally revealed the genius of dogs.

Feb 2, 2013

Punish the Shirkers! Especially the Low-status Ones

Do high-status freeloaders get a free pass?

Jan 31, 2013

Young Bonobos Offer Comforting Hugs and Sex

Young bonobos console their fellow apes with hugs and sex, say scientists.

Jan 31, 2013

Babies Start ‘Mind Reading’ Earlier Than Thought

Even babies as young as a year-and-a-half can guess what other people are thinking, new research suggests.

Jan 30, 2013

Researchers Simulate 25,000 Generations of Evolution, Boost Artificial Intelligence

Engineers and robotics researchers have solved a biological mystery and boosted artificial intelligence.

Jan 30, 2013

How Childhood Let Modern Humans Conquer The Planet

Is curiosity what saved the humans?

Jan 24, 2013

How and Why Do We Pick Our Friends?

Studies of dolphins, primates and humans show the reason we choose the companions we do is more complex, and perhaps less honorable, than we might think.

Jan 24, 2013

Why Did Consciousness Evolve?

Humans are aware of their own and other's minds in ways unlike any other animal. But why did consciousness evolve?

Jan 21, 2013

The Evolutionary Psychology of Male Humans, Female Humans, and Cats

Sex differences and evolutionary psychology.

Jan 18, 2013

Awaiting a New Darwin

"The mind-body problem “is not just a local problem” but “invades our understanding of the entire cosmos and its history.”

Jan 15, 2013

Claims of Fairness in Apes Have Critics Crying Foul

Dispute breaks out over the extent to which chimps cooperate.

Jan 15, 2013

Chimps Have a Sense of Fairness

Humans aren't the only ones who cry "no fair."

Jan 13, 2013

Darwin Was Wrong About Dating

What do women want? Pretty much what men want.

Jan 9, 2013

Why Do Animals Like To Play?

Recreation may look like it serves no obvious purpose, but when dogs and other animals are having fun they are learning some valuable lessons.

Jan 4, 2013

Are Babies Born Good?

New research offers surprising answers to the age-old question of where morality comes from.