Satoshi Kanazawa
| Satoshi Kanazawa | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 November 1962 United States |
| Residence | England, United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | United States/United Kingdom |
| Fields | Evolutionary psychology |
| Institutions | London School of Economics |
| Alma mater | University of Arizona |
Satoshi Kanazawa (born 16 November 1962) is an American-British evolutionary psychologist, currently Reader in Management at the London School of Economics. His work uses evolutionary psychology to analyse social sciences such as sociology, economics, and anthropology. Kanazawa has been very controversial. He attributes this to "political correctness" and "censorship", while his critics claim that what he does is "bad science" and "racist".
In response to ongoing controversies over his stated views (such as African countries suffer chronic poverty and disease because their people have lower IQs, and black women are objectively less attractive than women of other races), he was dismissed from writing for Psychology Today, and his employer, the London School of Economics, prohibited him from publishing in non-peer-reviewed outlets for 12 months. A group of 68 evolutionary psychologists issued an open letter titled "Kanazawa's bad science does not represent evolutionary psychology" rejecting his views, and an article on the same theme was published by 35 academics in American Psychologist.
He began working at the London School of Economics in 2003.
In February 2008, he started a blog on Psychology Today called "The Scientific Fundamentalist." He was dismissed after the controversy over his "Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?" article in May 2011.
In September 2012, after the period of 12 months when he was prohibited from publishing in non-peer-reviewed outlets by the LSE, he was hired by the blog Big Think as a contributing editor; the co-operation was discontinued on 29 March 2013.
Kanazawa has co-written three books with Alan Miller:
He also wrote a blog, The Scientific Fundamentalist, for Psychology Today until his dismissal in 2011.
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