Kevin MacDonald

Kevin MacDonald is Professor of Psychology at California State University–Long Beach.

Biographical information

The following is a biography from his website:

After receiving a Masters degree in evolutionary biology, he received a Ph. D. in Biobehavioral Sciences, both at the University of Connecticut. Since assuming his position at California State University–Long Beach, his research has focused on developing evolutionary perspectives on culture, developmental psychology and personality theory, the origins and maintenance of monogamous marriage in Western Europe, and ethnic relations (group evolutionary strategies). He is the author of more than 100 scholarly papers and reviews, and he is the author of Social and Personality Development: An Evolutionary Synthesis (1988), A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (1994), Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (1998), and The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (1998). He has also edited three books, Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development (1988), Parent-Child Play: Descriptions and Implications (1994), and Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development (2004). Cultural Insurrections, a collection of essays, appeared in 2008.

Affiliations

Member of the following organizations (as at December 2009):

• Society for Research in Child Development
• The Human Behavior and Evolution Society
• International Society for Human Ethology
• Politics and the Life Sciences

Contact

Address: Department of Psychology, CSU-Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840-0901, USA

Phone: (562) 985-8183

Email: kmacd(AT)csulb.edu

Website: http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/