JOHN TOOBY (July 26, 1952-November 9, 2023) was the founder of the field of Evolutionary Psychology, co-director (with his wife, Leda Cosmides) of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology, and professor of anthropology at UC Santa Barbara. He received his PhD in biological anthropology from Harvard University in 1989 and was professor of anthropology...
BySara Lippincott[10.28.23]I got out of Wellesley in 1959, shortly after Lolita got out of Paris. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. (Na-bwak-awf: a trip down the stairs with a loud bump and a glorious sprawl at the bottom.) I fell in love with it. I had majored in English, with a minor in Moby Dick, and now planned to become a full-time poet....
Contributions from: Patricia Churchland, Philip Goff, Terrence Sejnowski, Andrian Kreye, Gerd Gigerenzer, Brian Christian, Michael Gazzaniga, Sabine Hossenfelder, Randolph Nesse, Jared Diamond, John Naughton, Scott Atran, Julian Barbour, Susan Blackmore, Steven Pinker, Daniel C. Dennett, John C. Mather, John Markoff, David J. Anderson, Annaka Harris,...
[EDITOR'S NOTE: In marking this year's 25th anniversary of Edge, we are presenting original lectures from eminent scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who are changing the way we think about science and our place in the world.] "People don't change their minds." —Daniel Kahneman DANIEL KAHNEMAN...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1934–2021 The work that I'm best known for is flow theory and the studies of flow experience. People have applied the studies all over the world, and it has influenced many schools, factories, offices, and even political systems. If I were to try to go back to the origins of the theory, I would say that it probably started...
A Conversation withMihaly Csikszentmihalyi[8.1.04] The work that I'm best known for is flow theory and the studies of flow experience. People have applied the studies all over the world, and it has influenced many schools, factories, offices, and even political systems. If I were to try to go back to the origins of the theory, I would say that...
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