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Nigel Barber is an evolutionary psychologist and writer. With an undergraduate degree in English from Trinity College, Dublin, he studied psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York and received his Ph.D., in Biopsychology, in 1989. He taught psychology for eight years at Bemidji State University in Minnesota and at Birmingham-Southern College. He now works as a freelance writer and researcher.
Dr. Barber has held professional memberships in the American Psychological Association, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, the Animal Behavior Society, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. His honors include an American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award, a Distinguished Student Award, a Nigel Barber is an evolutionary psychologist and writer. With an undergraduate degree in English from Trinity College, Dublin, he studied psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York and received his Ph.D., in Biopsychology, in 1989. He taught psychology for eight years at Bemidji State University in Minnesota and at Birmingham-Southern College. He now works as a freelance writer and researcher.
Dr. Barber has held professional memberships in the American Psychological Association, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, the Animal Behavior Society, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. His honors include an American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award, a Distinguished Student Award, and a fellowship from the Gruter Institute. He is listed in Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Strathmore’s Who’s Who, and Who’s Who in the 21st Century. He is frequently interviewed as an expert on topics related to marriage and sexuality by journalists around the globe. His research has been featured in numerous newspaper articles (e. g., Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times) magazines (e. g., Vogue, In Touch), and television stories including a 2012 Discover article profiling his extensive pioneering research on marriage markets around the globe. He is often interviewed on radio here and in England and was invited to appear on Bloomberg television and Morgan Freeman's science program. His clear exposition of scientific ideas resulted in blog posts being republished in English-as- a-second-language textbooks in Germany and Japan.
Beginning as an animal behaviorist, Barber has focused his recent research activities in evolutionary psychology. His fields of interest include sexual and reproductive behavior, and religion, as they vary across societies and over time. A prolific researcher (with over 60 first-author peer-reviewed publications, see Bibliography section for selection), he has published in many professional journals including The Quarterly Review of Biology, Animal Behaviour, Teaching of Psychology, The Journal of Social Psychology, Sex Roles, Evolution and Human Behavior, The Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cross-Cultural Research, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, Intelligence, Journal of Happiness Studies, Evolutionary Psychology, Aggressive Behavior, Social Biology, Journal of Genius and Eminence, and Aggression and Violent Behavior among others. He is an editorial reviewer for Cross-Cultural Research, Human Nature, and Evolutionary Psychology, among other journals. He popularizes science in a blog at Psychology Today titled The Human Beast: http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog....
Barber is the author of several well-received crossover books that were written to be intelligible to general readers. He published Why Parents Matter: Parental Investment and Child Outcomes as a trade book with Bergin and Garvey (2000). This book applied an evolutionary interpretation of parental investment to current social problems including teen pregnancy and juvenile crime. The Science of Romance (Prometheus, 2002), which provided an evolutionary account of courtship and reproductive competition, won the Independent Publisher’s award in psychology. Kindness in a Cruel World (Prometheus, 2004) developed an evolutionary explanation of altruism and antisocial behavior as a function of the different rearing conditions and parental investment prospects in societies around the world. The Myth of Culture: Why We Need a Genuine Natural Science of Societies (Cambridge Scholars, 2008) proposes a radical reinterpretation of the social sciences as natural sciences where human behavior variation in different societies is conceived as an adaptive response to varied challenges and developmental histories. The e-book, Why Atheism Will Replace Religion (2012) explains why religion will decl ...more

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	Kindness In A Cruel World: The Evolution Of Altruism 3.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science of Romance: Secrets of the Sexual Brain 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Atheism Will Replace Religion: The triumph of earthly pleasures over pie in the sky 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of Culture: Why We Need a Genuine Natural Science of Societies 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Encyclopedia of Ethics in Science and Technology 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parenting: Roles, Styles and Outcomes it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Parents Matter: Parental Investment and Child Outcomes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evolution in the Here and Now: How Adaptation and Social Learning Explain Humanity 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viva-Facts on File: Ency.of Ethics in Sci. & Technology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Human Beast: ...through the lens of evolution 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars