The mysterious emotion of kama muta

February 2023

This week on the Nature & Nurture Podcast, I interview evolutionary psychologist Dr. Dan Conroy-Beam. Dan’s research is the scientific equivalent of the…
How oxytocin promotes care in humans and other animals.

January 2023

Why do some species have more sex differences than others? This week on Psychology Today, I published an article titled Not All Sex Differences Are…

September 2022

Last week on Psychology Today I released an article on how entropy connects to psychology. Today I released an article on how negative stereotypes…
For a brief period this past summer, I obsessively read a substantial portion of the last 40 years of the neuroscience of play behavior in rats…
This week on Psychology Today, my friend Nick Ford and I co-authored an article titled Understanding Dopamine Can Help Us Create Better Habits. This…

August 2022

This week on Psychology Today, I published an article on how knowledge of behavioral genetics shapes our moral judgements, titled Is Kindness…
Frans de Waal’s new book "Different" shows us how similar we really are.
This week on the Nature & Nurture Podcast, I interviewed psychologist Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar on the science of happiness.

July 2022

Highlights of The Nature & Nurture Podcast, new articles, and musings based on readings, listenings, and original research.