Martin Daly is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at
McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...
in
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is approximately southwest of T ...
, Canada, and author of many influential papers on
evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolv ...
. His current research topics include an evolutionary perspective on risk-taking and interpersonal violence, especially male-male conflict and family violence. He and his wife, the late
Margo Wilson Margo Wilson (1942–2009) was a Canadian evolutionary psychologist. She was a professor of psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, noted for her pioneering work in the field of evolutionary psychology and her contributi ...
, were formerly editors-in-chief of the journal ''
Evolution and Human Behavior
''Evolution and Human Behavior'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in which evolutionary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior, ranging from evolutionary psychology to evolutionary anthropol ...
'' and presidents of the
Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
He was named a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...
in 1998.
Daly is one of the main researchers of the
Cinderella effect
In evolutionary psychology, the Cinderella effect is the phenomenon of higher incidence of different forms of child abuse and mistreatment by stepparents than by biological parents. It takes its name from the fairy tale character Cinderella, whi ...
.
Books
(All books except ''Killing the Competition'' co-authored with
Margo Wilson Margo Wilson (1942–2009) was a Canadian evolutionary psychologist. She was a professor of psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, noted for her pioneering work in the field of evolutionary psychology and her contributi ...
)
* ''Sex, Evolution, and Behaviour'' (1978)
* ''Homicide'' (1988)
* ''The truth about Cinderella: A Darwinian view of parental love.'' (1998)
* ''Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide'' (2016)
References
External links
Personal web siteEvolution & Human BehaviorCurriculum vitae*
1944 births
Living people
Evolutionary psychologists
Human evolution theorists
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
Canadian psychologists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
McMaster University faculty
Scientists from Toronto
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