Academia
My academic research interests focus on explaining how evolutionarily adaptive emotions like shame and guilt promote social norm adherence, aid in human cooperation, and help form moral systems.
My main applied research interests focus on explaining the division between science and technology; highlighting the overlap between technological and biological innovation and design; and works toward a more foundational understanding of human needs.
Research Questions:
What are human needs and how do we come to know them in reliable ways?
How do emotions like shame and guilt interface with the norms of one’s culture?
Does the design of artificial (technological) and organic (biological) things follow similar developmental processes and principles? What can research and development learn from evolution by natural selection?
How does science differ from technology?
