David Barash, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
(206) 543-8784
Advising:
Does not accept or train psychology graduate students.
Areas:
Neural Systems and Behavior
Interests: Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology, Peace Studies
Links:
Education
University of Wisconsin - Madison (1970)
- December 13, 2022 David Barash Writes in History News Network
- October 1, 2021 David P. Barash, emeritus professor, recently published the fifth edition of his textbook, Peace and Conflict Studies
- November 27, 2019 David Barash discusses the move towards recognition of cognition in animal minds in this Psychology Today article.
- January 25, 2019 KUOW podcast, The Record, features David Barash discussing survival of the sneakiest
- October 23, 2018 The latest book by Emeritus Professor David P. Barash has just been published by Oxford University Press.
- June 11, 2018 David Barash explains the similarities between Buddhism and Ecology in this article he wrote for Humans & Nature
- May 7, 2018 David Barash weighed in on which animals kill the most humans, in this Gizmodo article.
- November 16, 2016 The Nautilus recently published an article by David Barash about the evolution of the giraffe.
- February 17, 2016 Psychology Today recently interviewed David Barash about evolutionary biology and how it affects mental health.
- January 28, 2015 David Barash highlights the conflict between our biological and cultural natures.
- January 21, 2015 Hey Jealousy – David Barash’s work is cited in this article.
- January 13, 2015 What’s love got to do with it? Find out what David Barash has to say about that topic.
- November 26, 2014 Is life good? Find out what David Barash has to say -
- November 12, 2014 Birds do it, Bees do it and now you can do it. Read about David Barash’s work on monogamy -
- October 1, 2014 David Barash recently wrote a piece for the New York Times titled God, Darwin, and My College Biology Class.
- November 27, 2013 David Barash (Professor) was interviewed by UW News following the publication of his new book 'Buddhist Biology' .
- October 24, 2012 David Barash’s opinion article, titled Who’s In Charge Inside Your Head, was featured in the New York Times on October 6.
- June 20, 2011 David Barash's and Judith Lipton's book on revenge, Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge, was published by Oxford University Press this month.
- March 30, 2010 David Barash, on sabbatical leave during Winter Quarter, returned to the US just in time to deliver the William D. Hamilton Memorial Lecture in Evolutionary Science at the University of New England, in Portland, Maine.
- October 13, 2009 David Barash is featured in the recent U Week for his article in The Chronicle Review in which he proposed that "our current relationship to the world ecosystem is nothing less than a pyramid scheme."
- May 26, 2009 David Barash was interviewed for "Why do we need art?" in the March 2009 issue of Columns, the UW Alumni Association’s magazine.
- April 2, 2007 David Barash was featured in a guest column in the March 23, 2007 Seattle Times.
- January 22, 2007 Congratulations to faculty who are included in the UW Alumni Association's Columns magazine's listing of the "100 top books by 100 UW authors." David Barash, John Gottman, Patricia Kuhl
- April 27, 2006 "The Case for Evolution, in Real Life" - David Barash
- April 24, 2006 David Barash was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education. "The Case for Evolution, in Real Life" (April 7, 2006).
- April 24, 2006 Vivian Zayas was appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Psychology at Cornell University, starting January 2007.
- November 7, 2005 David Barash and Judith Lipton are interviewed on UWTV about their book "Making Sense of Sex: How Genes and Gender Influence Our Relationships."
- April 30, 2001 Authors yank infidelity out of closet: Monogamy appears to be unnatural in the natural world
- February 3, 2000 Father, daughter collaborate on book to promote bioliteracy
- David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. 2011. Payback: why we retaliate, redirect aggression and seek revenge. Oxford University Press: New York
- David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. 2009. How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories. Columbia University Press: New York
- David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. 2009. Strange Bedfellows: the surprising connection between sex, evolution and monogamy. Bellevue Literary Press: New York
- David P. Barash. 2009. Approaches to Peace, 2nd ed . Oxford University Press: New York
- David P. Barash and Charles P. Webel. 2008. Peace and Conflict Studies, 2nd ed. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, California
- David P.Barash. 2007. Natural Selections: selfish altruists, honest liars and other realities of evolution. Bellevue Literary Press: New York
- 2005. Madame Bovary's Ovaries: a Darwinian look at literature. Delacorte/Random House
- 2003. The Survival Game: how game theory explains the biology of cooperation and competition. Henry Holt/Times Books
- Arthur Gandolfi, Anna Gandolfi, and David P. Barash. 2002. Economics as an Evolutionary Science: from utility to fitness Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, NJ.
- Barash, David P. and Charles Webel. 2002. Peace and Conflict Studies. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
- David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. 2001. The Myth of Monogamy: fidelity and infidelity in animals and people W. H. Freeman & Co.: New York (in paper: Henry Holt & Co., 2002).