Satoshi Kanazawa
Evolutionary Psychologist and Intelligence Researcher, London School of Economics
Satoshi Kanazawa is an evolutionary psychologist and intelligence researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Reader in Management at LSE as well as Honorary Research Fellow in Psychology at Birkbeck College University of London. He has written over 90 articles and chapters in psychology, sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, biology, and medicine. His latest book is The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One (Wiley, 2012).
The state of the world and its social problems aren’t worth losing sleep over. As the evolutionary psychologist explains, just worry about your science.
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Intelligent people create novel solutions to problems—a fact that has resulted in a rich history of smart people picking up eccentric values and habits.
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Love was designed by evolution to compel us to engage in behavior that will spread our genes into the next generation. But divorce, far from a modern phenomenon, has also […]
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In a number of fundamental ways, human psychology hasn’t budged in a very long time.
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It turns out that you indeed can judge a book by its cover—nice people look nice and nasty people look nasty.
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There is a proven mathematical theorem for why dating and finding a job in a large urban area is difficult and frustrating.
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Humans are, in a sense, hardwired to be conservative, and it requires a unique intelligence to acquire something as evolutionarily novel as liberalism.
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The evolutionary psychologist explains that attractive people tend to have girls, a trend that is making women far more attractive on average than men.
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The primary goal of life is reproductive success, a common bond that explains why, for scientists, artists, and even criminals, genius and discovery peak among the young and single.
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A conversation with the evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics.
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