Dr Michael Price
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Quad North 124
- Email: michael.price@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266974
Summary
I conduct research in evolutonary psychology, a synthesis of cogntive psychology and evolutionary biology. Evolutionary psychology approaches the mind/brain as a bundle of information-processing mechanisms, functionally specialised to solve adaptive problems encountered by our evolutionary ancestors. My main topic of interest is currently the biological and biocultural evolution of religio-spirituality.
Qualifications:
- PhD (Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara)
- BA (Psychology, Duke University)
Newest selected publications
Price, ME. and Johnson, DDP. (2024) 'Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 2153-599X Open Access Link
Price, ME. (2023) 'Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 13 (4). pp. 472 - 474. ISSN: 2153-599X
Price, ME. (2020) 'A moral obligation to promote future human evolution?'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 11 (1). pp. 87 - 90. ISSN: 2153-599X
Georgiev, G., Smart, J., Martinez, CLF. and Price, M. (2019) 'Evolution, Development and Complexity Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems'. Springer. ISSN 10: 3030000745 ISSN 13: 9783030000745
Price, M. (2019) 'Cosmological Natural Selection and the Function of Life', in Georgiev, G., Martinez, C., Price, M. and Smart, J. (eds.) Evolution, Development and Complexity: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems. Springer. pp. 3 - 22. ISBN 13: 9783030000745.