David M. Buss
Evolutionary psychologist and professor
David M. Buss is an American evolutionary psychologist who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies how humans choose mates and wrote The Evolution of Desire.
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American Born 1953 in Indianapolis, United States
Influenced by Charles Darwin
About David M. Buss
David M. Buss is an American evolutionary psychologist and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His research looks at differences between the sexes in choosing mates, and he is counted among the founders of evolutionary psychology. Buss earned his PhD in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He then spent four years as an assistant professor at Harvard University and eleven years at the University of Michigan, before joining the University of Texas. His research topics include mating strategies, conflict between the sexes, social status, jealousy, homicide and stalking, all studied from an evolutionary angle. He has written more than 200 scientific articles, along with books such as The Evolution of Desire, The Dangerous Passion and The Murderer Next Door.