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April 25, 2024

An Open Letter to Tucker Carlson, Evolution Denier

How does an intelligent mind dismiss rock-solid evidence in one matter and embrace unreliable and fanciful reports in another?

July 23, 2012

Compare The Meerkat and The Lawyer

Looking at animal behaviour for insights into corporate life is just another example of silo busting, a practice that is becoming all the rage.

August 1, 2012

Being Kind Makes Kids Happy

A new study is the first to show that kids get a happiness boost from sacrificing for others, suggesting our strong inclinations for altruism.

August 21, 2012

Orangutans on Ritalin: An Evolutionary Developmental Psychology Perspective on ADHD

No animal other than us modern humans—our hunter-gatherer ancestors included—suffers ADHD. But plenty of today’s elementary school children do. What's going on?

January 11, 2013

A Science Teacher Draws the Line at Creation

A science teacher asks if scientists and biblical literalists can get along.

April 9, 2013

Learning from Mother Nature About Teaching Our Children: Ten Simple Truths

Scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin's theory of evolution.Education isn’t working well in America, despite billions of dollars and everyone’s best intentions. Not too long ago, scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin’s theory of evolution.

May 2, 2014

The Future Looks Good For Citizen Science

Public participation in science, or citizen science, is finding a foothold in all branches of science.

April 26, 2014

Homo Religiosus

February 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.

May 22, 2014

Taming The Autonomous Learner

February 6, 2013

Four US States Considering Laws That Challenge Teaching of Evolution

Critics charge 'academic freedom' legislation in Colorado, Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma is just creationism in disguise.

October 7, 2013

Working With Human Nature To Improve Business Ethics

Why our moral psychology makes it difficult to teach ethics.I give a brief overview of an evolutionary approach to moral psychology in which people are mostly concerned about appearances and reputation, rather than actually doing the right thing. I explain why this complex psychology makes it difficult to teach ethics to anyone. Yet an understanding of the origins and mechanisms of moral cognition open the way for us to do (and teach) “<a href="http://www.ethicalsystems.org/">ethical systems design</a>,” a way of working with human nature and setting up environments that lead to better ethical behavior.

May 8, 2014

Evolutionary Educational Psychology as a Base for Instructional Design

While it is intuitively plausible that teaching [critical thinking] skills should be useful, evidence that they are teachable is sparse.

July 3, 2014

Why Best Practices Don’t Spread