Glenn Geher Editor & Author

Glenn Geher, PhD, is a professor of psychology and founding director of evolutionary studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. Glenn has taught several courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels including statistics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology and has won the New Paltz Alumni Association's Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, along with a Chancellor's Award for both Teaching and Research Excellence from SUNY. He also served as the chair of the Psychology Department at SUNY New Paltz for 8 years. First and foremost, Glenn is a teacher, and his primary goal is to educate and support his students and work to facilitate their success as they develop across their careers. Glenn's publications generally address two broad themes: the interface of human mating and cognitive processes (mating intelligence) and the state of evolutionary psychology within the landscape of academia. Among his publications are the book Evolutionary Psychology 101, published by Springer, and edited books published with Nova Publishers (Measuring Emotional Intelligence) and Erlbaum (Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind's Reproductive System, coedited with Geoffrey Miller). He is coauthor of Mating Intelligence Unleashed (with Scott Barry Kaufman, published by Oxford University Press) and Straightforward Statistics: Understanding the Tools of Research (with Sara Hall, published by Oxford University Press).

Glenn has appeared in such media venues as BBC World Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, Al Jazeera English, HuffPo Live, WAMC/NPR, NPR Wisconsin, AM 770 Calgary, and more. His work has appeared in such print and digital media as Scientific American Mind, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Nature, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, as well as Yahoo News, Elle, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and Men's Health. Glenn is credited as the founder of the NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society and is well known for his evolution-themed blog for Psychology Today (""Darwin's Subterranean World""). Glenn lives in a house in the woods on the fringes of New Paltz, NY, with his wife, Kathy, and their two children, Megan and Andrew, and several pets. They have a lot of fun together!