DANIEL SZNYCER

Role:
 Evolutionary Psychologist

Institution:
Arizona State University

Daniel Sznycer (PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara) is an
evolutionary psychologist conducting research on the psychology of
sociality. He combines methods, theories, and concepts drawn from the
cognitive sciences and evolutionary biology to explore and map the
evolved design of social emotions and their underlying motivational
systems. He has multiple lines of cross-cultural evidence on shame,
pride,compassion, and envy, and their roles in altruism, cooperation,
social exclusion, and conflict. He also conducts research on the
system that regulates how much weight one individual places on the
welfare of another. He is investigating how these emotions and
motivations regulate political and moral attitudes, and how they shape
communication. The methods he uses include experimental economic
games, decision-making tasks, priming methods, cross-cultural and
ethnographic data collection, large-scale representative surveys, and
anthropometry.

▸ Email Daniel at dsznycer2@gmail.com
▸ Visit Daniel’s web site