Psychology Professor Featured in National Newspaper
June 29, 2009 - Campus Bulletin
Psychology professor Hank Davis is profiled in Saturday’s National Post in a feature-length article that focuses on his new book, Caveman Logic: The Persistence of Primitive Thinking in a Modern World. The book explores the powerful influence in our daily lives of what Davis calls irrational and delusional thinking anchored in humans’ Pleistocene-era brain circuitry. Davis, an evolutionary psychologist, strives to explain why in the modern world, more people believe in ESP, ghosts and angels than in scientific theories such as evolution.
Mitch Moffit didn’t get The Best Job in the World but he’ll still be putting his creative talents to work promoting tourism in Australia. According to the Guelph Mercury, the fourth-year biological sciences student will be working for Tourism Victoria as well as continuing his studies on an exchange with James Cook University in northern Queensland.
