Ara Norenzayan is a social psychologist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His areas of research interest include the evolution of religion and culture, thinking across cultures, and issues of cultural variability and universality in human psychology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999. Prior to UBC, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Épistemologie Appliquée (CREA), École Polytechnique, Paris, after which he served on the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. When not snowboarding, or plotting his next travel, he is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at UBC, and a Faculty Associate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. He teaches culture and cognition, the evolutionary psychology of religion, social psychology, and introductory psychology.
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