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| − | [[Kevin MacDonald]] is Professor of Psychology at California State University–Long Beach. He testified for | + | [[Kevin MacDonald]] is Professor of Psychology at California State University–Long Beach. He testified for [[David Irving]] in his libel trial against Deborah Lipstadt.<ref>[http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/Tooby&Pinker.htm Response to John Tooby and Steven Pinker], Kevin MacDonald website, accessed 2 Dec 2009</ref> Lipstadt is an American historian and the author of the book, ''Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory'', in which she called Irving a Holocaust denier. |
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Revision as of 17:38, 2 December 2009
Kevin MacDonald is Professor of Psychology at California State University–Long Beach. He testified for David Irving in his libel trial against Deborah Lipstadt.[1] Lipstadt is an American historian and the author of the book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, in which she called Irving a Holocaust denier.
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Activities
History
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.[2]
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Affiliations
Member of the following organizations (as at December 2009):[3]
- Society for Research in Child Development
- The Human Behavior and Evolution Society
- International Society for Human Ethology
- Politics and the Life Sciences
Publications
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/
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Notes
- ↑ Response to John Tooby and Steven Pinker, Kevin MacDonald website, accessed 2 Dec 2009
- ↑ Home page, Kevin MacDonald website, accessed 2 Dec 2009
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae, available from Kevin MacDonald website, http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/
