Bio

Jesse Bering, Ph.D., is a frequent contributor to Scientific American and Slate. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic, and on NPR, Playboy Radio, and more. Bering is the former director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen’s University, Belfast, and began his career as a professor at the University of Arkansas. He lives near Ithaca, New York.