Sven Kasser

Sven is an interdisciplinary social scientist currently enrolled in the MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University with previous training in psychology and economics. His interests span experimental moral psychology, formal modelling of cultural transmission dynamics, especially with regards to marriage norms, and gene-culture coevolution. Accordingly, he is currently a research affiliate at the Social Behaviour and Ethics Lab at the University of Exeter (UK) studying risk in moral judgment, as well as a Master’s student in Oxford’s Anthrologue research group under supervision of Dr. Laura Fortunato, where he is investigating the impact of biased sex-ratios on the evolution of human marriage systems. He is due to start a PhD this autumn at the University of St. Andrews under supervision of Kevin Laland, Laura Fortunato and Marc Feldman, focused on quantifying gene-culture coevolution beyond commonly cited current examples (e.g. lactase persistence, etc.). Besides his otherwise clear-cut bias toward human cognition, he has a particular soft spot for comparative psychology involving cephalopods (that is to say, he really likes cuttlefish, and thinks you should too). You can follow him on Twitter for updates on his research.