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is an evolutionary biologist and Dean of Graduate House at St Paul’s College, University of Sydney. He writes on human culture and society, evolution and animal behaviour, and is the author of The ...

is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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is professor of personality psychology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His research focuses on personality, mental health, interpersonal process, psychotherapy, and human-animal relations.

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.