Mark Prokosch teaches several undergraduate courses including Foundations of Psychology, Seminar in Social Psychology, Seminar in Biological Psychology, and Origins of the Human Mind, as well as Honors Foundations of Psychology and Honors Social Psychology, both offered through the University Honors Program.
Dr. Prokosch received the PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Davis, where his work focused on the integration of ultimate and proximate explanations of human social-cognitive traits with a specific focus on mate preferences and individual differences in psychometric intelligence, creativity, and other conspicuous behavioral displays.
His teaching interests can be categorized into the following:
- Neuroscience — evolutionary; social-cognitive; behavioral; neuro-endocrinology; & pathology
- Hominid evolution — complexity & emergence; adaptationist perspectives; comparative primate brain evolution & social cognition; sexual selection & mate preferences; Darwinian medicine
- Individual variation in behavior — genetic & epigenetic regulation of neural development; prenatal environmental effects; infant social intuitions & attachment; social influences & tribalism
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