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Jesse Michael Bering (born 6 May 1975) is a writer and academic. He is Associate Professor in Science Communication at the University of Otago, as well as a frequent contributor to ''Scientific American'', ''Slate'', and ''Das Magazin'' (Switzerland). His work has also appeared in ''New York Magazine'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The New Republic'', and has been featured on ''NPR'', the ''BBC'', ''Playboy Radio'' and elsewhere. ==Life and career== Bering is the former director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast and began his career as a psychology professor at the University of Arkansas. After a period as a full-time writer, he took up a science communication post at the University of Otago in 2014. Bering is notable for his frank and humorous handling of controversial issues in psychological science, especially those dealing with human sexuality. His ''Scientific American'' blog, ''Bering in Mind,''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bering in Mind - A research psychologist's curious look at human behavior )〕 was named a 2010 Webby Award Honoree for the Blog-Cultural category by members of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. He also received the 2010 "Scientist of the Year Award" from the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP), an affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a Project Partner in the Oxford University-based 'Explaining Religion' project,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Explaining Religion Project )〕 a three-year, €2 million project funded by the European Commission. He attended graduate school at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he earned his MA degree (1999) studying chimpanzee social cognition under the guidance of comparative psychologist Daniel J. Povinelli. He then transferred to Florida Atlantic University, where he obtained a PhD in developmental psychology (2002). His doctoral advisor was the evolutionary developmental psychologist David F. Bjorklund. Bering's formal academic research is in the area of the cognitive science of religion. In his book ''Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us'' he has expressed support for Virtuous Pedophiles, an anti-child sexual abuse group. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jesse Bering」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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