Trained by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, the co-founders of evolutionary psychology, David uses principles of adaptationist thinking to address a range of psychological questions and phenomena. 

Past and ongoing work includes establishing the psychological mechanisms producing racial categorization and responsible for representing multi-agent conflict. 

New areas of work include exploring the psychology of psychology, including how evolutionary psychology can help us with moving beyond psychology's theory crisis, how it can inform long-standing issues in philosophy of mind such as debates about free will, and how it may allow us to better understand how our intuitive psychology interferes with our attempts to be scientific about the mind. 

David is an assistant professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, PI of the Cognitive Adaptation Lab, and an affiliate (and sometimes co-Director) of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. 

David is teaches an advanced graduate seminar on evolutionary psychology and introduction to psychology for undergraduates. 

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