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Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban

Jason Weeden is a senior researcher with the Pennsylvania Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology and a lawyer in Washington, DC. Robert Kurzban is professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of PLEEP. He is the author of Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind. Weeden and Kurzban are the authors of The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It.

Latest articles by Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban

Don’t fool yourself about “the other side” — everyone is selfish when it comes to politics
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How our age, gender, race, and other demographic factors predict which policies we support.

By Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban