Satoshi Kanazawa

Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa (born November 16, 1962) is an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics. His research uses evolutionary psychology to analyze social sciences such as sociology, economics, and anthropology. [ [http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/[e-mail]/ Dr Satoshi Kanazawa] , LSE, retrieved 6 September 2006] In 2003, in an article in the "Journal of Research in Personality", he showed that scientists generally made their biggest discovery before their mid-30s, and compared this productivity curve to that of criminals. [Cite journal
author = Satoshi Kanazawa
title = Why productivity fades with age: The crime–genius connection
journal = Journal of Research in Personality
volume = 37
issue = 4
month = August
year = 2003
pages = 257–272
doi = 10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00538-X
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url = http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17924031.400-we-hear-that.html
title = We hear that…
journal = New Scientist
date = 12 July 2003]

In 2006 he published an article in the "Journal of Theoretical Biology", claiming that attractive people are 26% less likely to have male offsring. [ [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,19992785-36398,00.html Beautiful people have girls] , News.com.au, 2 August 2006] [Cite journal
last = Kanazawa
first = Satoshi
title = Beautiful parents have more daughters: A further implication of the generalized Trivers-Willard hypothesis (gTWH)
url = http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/MES/pdf/JTB2007.pdf
format = PDF reprint
journal = Journal of Theoretical Biology
volume = 244
issue = 1
date = January 7, 2007
pages = 133–140
doi = 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.07.017] However, flaws were later identified in the statistical analysis, with the number actually estimated to be 8%, which due to the multiple comparisons problem, could not be regarded as statistically significant. [Cite journal
last = Gelman
first = Andrew
title = Letter to the editors regarding some papers of Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa
url = http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/kanazawa.pdf
format = PDF Reprint
journal = Journal of Theoretical Biology
volume = 345
issue = 3
date = April 7, 2007
pages = 597–599
doi = 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.11.005]

Professor Kanazawa has co-written three books with Alan Miller: "Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire—Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do", "Why Men Gamble and Women Buy Shoes: How Evolution Shaped the Way We Behave" and "Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan". He also writes a blog entitled " [http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist The Scientific Fundamentalist] " for Psychology Today.

Kanazawa is credited with coining the Savanna principle or the idea that the environment the human mind developed in is drastically different than today's industrial society.

Commenting on the criticism directed against some evolutionary psychology theories, Kanazawa has stated that "The only responsibility that scientists have is to the truth, nothing else. Scientists are not responsible for the potential or actual consequences of the knowledge they create." [ [http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/if-the-truth-offends-it-s-our-job-offend Psychology Today : "If the truth offends, it’s our job to offend", 2008] ]

Commenting on the War on Terror, Kanazawa claimed that "there is one resource that our enemies have in abundance but we don’t: hate. Hatred of enemies has always been a proximate emotional motive for war throughout human evolutionary history." He then offers the following thought experiment: "Imagine that, on September 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers came down, the President of the United States was not George W. Bush, but Ann Coulter. What would have happened then? On September 12, President Coulter would have ordered the US military forces to drop 35 nuclear bombs throughout the Middle East, killing all of our actual and potential enemy combatants, and their wives and children. On September 13, the war would have been over and won, without a single American life lost. Yes, we need a woman in the White House, but not the one who’s running [ Hillary Clinton] ". [ [http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200803/why-we-are-losing-war Psychology Today : "Why we are losing this war", 2008] ]

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