Douglas T. Kenrick
Psychologist and university professor
Douglas T. Kenrick is an American psychologist and professor at Arizona State University. He uses evolutionary ideas to study how people think and behave.
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American Born 1948 in Queens, United States
Influenced by Fritjof Capra
About Douglas T. Kenrick
Douglas T. Kenrick was born in 1948 and is a professor of psychology at Arizona State University. His work brings together evolutionary psychology, cognitive science and dynamical systems theory, and most of his research uses evolutionary thinking to explain how people think and act. He studied social psychology under Robert B. Cialdini and earned his PhD at Arizona State in 1976. He has edited books on evolutionary psychology and co-authored textbooks, including Psychology and Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction. He has also written a Psychology Today blog called Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, which shares its name with his book Sex, Murder and the Meaning of Life.