Daniel Nettle
Behavioural and cognitive scientist
Daniel Nettle is a behavioral and cognitive scientist and writer based at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. He wrote Personality.
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Born 1970
About Daniel Nettle
Daniel Nettle was born in 1970 and works as a scientist of human behavior and cognition. His research often draws on evolutionary biology and anthropology. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford University, then completed a PhD in Biological Anthropology at University College London. He is a senior researcher at the Institut Jean Nicod, an interdisciplinary research institute in Paris. He served as President of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association from 2013 to 2016. Nettle has written or co-written eleven books, including Personality; Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile; and Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature.