Robert Kurzban

I study the evolved design of the human mind: why we have the feelings we have, why we are so sure of our own good sense, and why our opinions line up so neatly with our interests.

I trained with Leda Cosmides and John Tooby at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and I was a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania for more than a decade. These days I write, I talk with podcasters, and I am the junior partner in my sister's studio, The Pottery Spottery.

The Living Fossils is my Substack on evolutionary psychology and behavioral economics: the parts of our minds built for a world that no longer exists, and what they do now.

My academic papers are listed on Google Scholar.

Podcast appearances and interviews, including Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman and What Happens Next in 6 Minutes, are listed on the All the Feels media page.

For interview requests, email me.

• B.A., Cornell University, 1991
• Ph.D. in psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
• Master of Public Administration, Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania
• Professor of psychology, University of Pennsylvania
• Past president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and past editor-in-chief of its journal, Evolution and Human Behavior

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rkurzban@gmail.com