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Since receiving his doctorate in social psychology from Princeton University, he has received numerous fellowships and awards. Who among us has not at some point asked, ``what is the meaning of life?'' As of 2018, he is currently a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. (2003) article on self-esteem that was published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest was the most frequently cited article in the entire history of all journals published by the Association for Psychological Science. Baumeister, R. F., & Vohs, K. D. (2004).

In Baumeister and Vohs’s (2004) interpretation, economic principles such as supply and demand, competition and collusion among sellers, and other economic factors will affect the “price” that women can ask and that men will pay for sex.

After reviewing the literature, Baumeister (2000) concluded that female sexuality exhibited more flexibility than male sexuality across three dimensions. In conjunction with the eminent social psychologist Mark R. Leary, the paper published on the need to belong (Baumeister and Leary 1995) is Baumeister’s most highly cited and influential paper, with over 15,000 citations by the end of 2017.

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Gender differences in erotic plasticity: The female sex drive as socially flexible and responsive. In 2013 he spent a year as a Research Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, and in 2014 he served as a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. A sampling of some of his protégés, as of 2017, includes: Baumeister received his bachelor’s degree in 1974 from Princeton University, where he worked with Joel Cooper. 2001a) on the idea that bad things exert a stronger influence on us than good things.

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During his undergraduate years, he spent a year abroad at the University of Heidelberg where he studied philosophy. 1996), and over 50 of his articles have appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (e.g., Baumeister 1984; Baumeister et al. Baumeister, R. F. (2000). In 2012, Baumeister was awarded the Distinguished Lifetime Career Contribution Award from the International Society for Self and Identity, and in 2011 he was awarded the Jack Block Award for Distinguished Contributions to Personality Psychology by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. MEANINGS OF LIFE draws together evidence from psychology, history, anthropology, and sociology, integrating copious research findings into a clear and conclusive discussion of how people attempt to make sense of their lives. The authors concluded from their review that the male sex drive is stronger than the female sex drive.

Baumeister’s human sexuality contributions that have had the greatest impact (in terms of citation rates) include his review and theory papers on the topics of gender differences in sex drive, erotic plasticity, and sexual economics.

In The Cultural Animal, Baumeister makes the case that humans evolved for culture. Baumeister has an impressive list of graduate and postdoctoral students that he has mentored that have gone on to have made significant contributions to the field of psychology.

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He has been a strong proponent of the importance of studying behavior in the behavioral sciences, rather than relying solely or even mainly on self-reports and responses to computerized stimuli to dominate our view of the human psyche. As of the end of 2017, Baumeister’s work has been cited over 143,000 times. Thus far, every single one of Baumeister’s protégés has gone on to an academic job after working with him. They also observed that men were more likely to initiate (and less likely to refuse) sex, were more likely to make sacrifices for sex, and in other ways seemed to display more frequent and more intense sexual desires than women. He grew up in Cleveland, the oldest child of a schoolteacher and an immigrant businessman. Guilford Publications, Aug 9, 1991 - Philosophy - 426 pages. This paper has over 4900 citations as of the end of 2017. The e-mail addresses that you supply to use this service will not be used for any other purpose without your consent.

The ones marked * may be different from the article in the profile. Baumeister is currently (2018) working on a book on this topic with his co-author John Tierney.

Baumeister, R. F., Twenge, J. M., & Nuss, C. K. (2002). Suicide as escape from self. 0 Reviews. Theoretical views, conceptual distinctions, and a review of relevant evidence. The main idea of the book is that human nature, and the individual human psyche, was designed by evolution to enable humans to create and sustain culture.

In addition to proposing the universal need to belong, the authors also developed an exhaustive description and criteria for what is required for something to be classified as a fundamental human motivation, and it is this description and classification that is of special interest to many evolutionary scientists.

Secondly, female sexuality was more responsive than male sexuality to sociocultural variables.

Baumeister has traveled extensively during his career, taking advantage of sabbaticals and leaves of absence to work as a visiting professor in numerous locations. Victim and perpetrator accounts of interpersonal conflict: Autobiographical narratives about anger. Torturing political prisoners? Explora la mayor tienda de eBooks del mundo y empieza a leer hoy mismo en la Web, en tu tablet, en tu teléfono o en tu lector electrónico. Also in 2013, the Association for Psychological Science announced that the Baumeister et al.

Bad is stronger than good. In 2013, Baumeister was awarded the highly prestigious William James Fellow Award for lifetime contributions to psychological science from the Association for Psychological Science.

In their review of the literature, they found no evidence from any measure indicating that women had stronger sexual motivation than men, although they cautioned that their findings should not be generalized to other constructs such as sexual or orgasmic capacity, enjoyment of sex, or extrinsically motivated sex. Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland, Australia. Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs. A fascinating study of one of humankind's oldest problems, Evil has profound implications for the way we conduct our lives and govern our society.