Ara norenzayan biography of alberta

Ara Norenzayan is a social psychologist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

His areas of research interest focus on culture and cognition, issues of cultural variability and universality, cultural evolution, religious cognition, and the psychology of widespread beliefs. He received his Ph.D.

Ara norenzayan biography of alberta canada

in psychology from the University of Michigan in , where he did interdisciplinary graduate work in the Culture and Cognition Program of the Anthropology and Psychology Departments. Prior to his appointment at UBC, Dr. Norenzayan was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee (CREA), Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, after which he served on the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

In , he became Faculty Associate of the Peter Wall Inst