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David M. Buss

Geboren: April 14, 1953 – Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

David M. Buss is an evolutionary psychologist whose work examines human mating, sexual conflict, jealousy, and aggression. He is best known for The Evolution of Desire and other books applying evolutionary theory to intimate relationships. A professor at the University of Texas at Austin, he is widely cited for cross-cultural research on mate preferences.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

David M. Buss built his career out of a dissatisfaction with piecemeal explanations of human behavior. As an undergraduate psychology major at the University of Texas at Austin from 1971 to 1976, he found many prevailing theories too arbitrary, and geology and astronomy courses sharpened his interest in origin-based explanations. That curiosity led him toward evolutionary theory and then to doctoral study in personality psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1981. Early appointments at Harvard and the University of Michigan, followed by his long tenure at the University of Texas at Austin, gave him the academic base from which his most influential work emerged. ((https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/files/2013/02/dbuss-cv-2016.pdf))

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Evolutionary psychology provides a cogent meta-theory for psychological science
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Long-term committed mating is a fundamental strategy in the human repertoire
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Developmental dynamics, properly conceived, can add to the theoretical foundation of evolutionary psychology
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Evolutionary psychology is simply an approach to the study of psychology that is informed by modern principles of evolutionary biology
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What we're saying is: there are ducks
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The bright side is that research on human mating strategies is cumulative
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A description of a difference between two populations is not the same as an explanation for the difference
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Both fields seek to identify enduring organismic characteristics and to locate their origins and functional significance in environments
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"Fearless and honest, David M. Buss has spent 30 years studying uncomfortable topics: mating, sex, and violence"

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"David M. Buss is one of those rare people who can look Darwin straight in the eye without flinching"

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"David M. Buss has untangled the primordial human mating dance with deft, clarity, precision, and charm"

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"David M. Buss has long been a leader in turning that interest into rigorous science"

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"David M. Buss’s challenge to conventional wisdom on murders may become the new conventional wisdom"

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"David M. Buss is one of the world’s experts in sexual conflict in human mating"

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