David P. Barash

David P. Barash (* 1946 ) is an American psychologist.

He studied biology at Binghamton University and received his PhD in zoology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1970 . He teaches as a professor of psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle . His research focus is sociobiology and evolutionary psychology , whereby he also evaluates psychological findings about aggression for peace research . He has authored numerous books, several of them together with his wife, the psychiatrist Judith Eve Lipton .

Works (selection)

Sociobiology and behavior , 1977 ( ISBN 0-435-62046-0 ), German translation: Sociobiology and behavior , 1980 ( ISBN 3-489-60736-8 )
The whisperings within , 1979 ( ISBN 0-06-010341-8 ), German translation: The whispering in us. Human behavior in the light of sociology , 1981 ( ISBN 3-10-004005-8 )
(with Judith Eve Lipton): Stop nuclear war! A handbook , 1982
The hare and the tortoise. Culture, biology, and human nature , 1986 ( ISBN 0-670-81025-8 )
Marmots . Social behavior and ecology , 1989 ( ISBN 0-8047-1534-3 )
Introduction to peace studies , 1991 ( ISBN 0-534-13668-0 )
(with Judith Eve Lipton): Making sense of sex: how genes and gender influence our relationships , 1997 ( ISBN 1-55963-452-9 )
Ideas of human nature. From the Bhagavad Gita to sociobiology , 1998 ( ISBN 0-13-647587-6 )
(with Judith Eve Lipton): The myth of monogamy. Fidelity and infidelity in animals and people , 2001 ( ISBN 0-7167-4004-4 )
How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories , 2009, German translation: How women got their curves: The enigmatic evolutionary biology of the feminine , appears in 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-8274-2461-7 )

Homepage of David P. Barash at the University of Seattle
brief biographical information on the homepage of the US embassy in Prague (Czech)