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Dr Michael Price
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Quad North 124
- Email: michael.price@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266974
Research area(s)
- Evolutionary social and moral psychology
- The biological and biocultural evolution of religio-spirituality
- Universal Darwinism (the anti-entropic power of Darwinian selection across all domains of nature)
- The origins of moral beliefs
- The evolution of leadership, organizational behaviour, and group cooperation
Research Interests
My past research has focused mainly on evolutionary moral psychology, including investigations of:
- The relationship between moral orientation and bodily condition (usually drawing on anthropometric data, collected via 3D body scanner)
- The relationship between male parental investment and cultural attitudes about sexual morality
- Whether leader-follower relations represent a form of evolved n-person reciprocity
- Evolved solutions to the free-rider problem in collective actions
More recently, my primary research interests have been:
- The biological and biocultural evolution of religio-spirituality: Why is human nature predisposed towards religious/spiritual belief, and how is the expression of this predisposition shaped by cultural evolution?
- 'Universal Darwinism', which investigates the anti-entropic, creative power of Darwinian selection across all natural domains, from physics to biology to culture
Research grants and projects
Grants
Having little, having less: Toward a psychology of low socioeconomic status
Funder: British Academy
Duration: January 2015 - December 2017
Funder: British Academy
Duration: January 2015 - December 2017
Three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship (£303,931) from the British Academy; the Fellow, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, applied to work at Brunel with Michael Price as her mentor
Project details
Anthropometric predictors of moral orientation: September 2009 - Michael E. Price (PI)
Male parental investment and attitudes about sexual behaviour: May 2011 - Michael E. Price (PI)
Completed:
Modelling the evolution of reciprocity in groups: August 2005 - January 2010 Michael E. Price (CI)
Motion capture and body scanner studies of altruistic disposition: August 2006 - August 2008 Michael E. Price (CI)
Research links
Co-author network
Similar research interests
- Dr Stanley Gaines
- Dr Aiyana Willard
- Dr Jordan Moon
- Dr Cristina Correia Antunes Pina
- Professor Jeffrey Karp
Research group(s)
- CCEP