Reader in Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is an evolutionary psychologist, intelligence researcher, and Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He has written over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters in all of the social sciences (psychology, sociology, political science, economics, and anthropology) as well as in biology, medicine, public health, epidemiology, gerontology, demography, and criminology.
His academic work has been widely featured in the popular press, including, among others, CNN, NBC News, CBS News, Nature News, the Washington Post (in 2006 and 2016), Time (in 2010, 2013, and 2015), New Yorker, National Geographic, the Economist, the Globe and Mail, and Medical Daily. His article “Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent,” published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly, was widely reported in the media throughout the world, with the combined viewership of 400 million people worldwide (estimated by Meltwater News).
He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered in 2003 and Fox News Channel’s Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld on 2010. He is the author of The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn’t Always the Smart One (Wiley, 2012) and coauthor (with Alan S. Miller) of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (Penguin, 2007). The latter book has been translated into 13 languages in 17 editions, and sold over 35,000 copies. More recently, he is the editor of Genes, Environments, and Differential Susceptibility: Current Topics in Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (Edward Elgar, 2026). He may be found at: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/Kanazawa/.
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