Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian Jewish evolutionary psychologist and Professor of marketing at John Molson School of Business. Saad writes for Psychology Today and has a YouTube channel called The Saad Truth. Saad is known for his criticism of postmodernism.
Fleeing Lebanon
Saad was born in Beirut in 1964 to a Jewish family. Saad has said that he experienced anti-Semitism growing up in Lebanon. In 1975, Saad and his family fled Lebanon to Montreal because they were afraid of getting killed in the Lebanese Civil War.
Education
Saad studied at McGill University and got his Phd at Cornell University before becoming a professor at Concordia University.
Politics
Saad is extremely critical of postmodernism, Communism, identity politics, radical feminism, political correctness, cancel culture, wokeness, Islam and the anti-Trump movement. Saad also supports the Intellectual Dark Web.
Evolutionary psychologists |
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Biologists / neuroscientists | |
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| Anthropologists |
- Jerome H. Barkow
- Christopher Boehm
- Robert Boyd
- Donald E. Brown
- Napoleon Chagnon
- Robin Dunbar
- Daniel Fessler
- Mark Flinn
- John D. Hawks
- Joseph Henrich
- Ruth Mace
- Daniel Nettle
- Stephen Shennan
- Donald Symons
- John Tooby
- Pierre van den Berghe
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Behavioral economists / political scientists |
- Samuel Bowles
- Ernst Fehr
- Herbert Gintis
- Dominic D. P. Johnson
- Gad Saad
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Literary theorists / philosophers | |
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Psychologists / cognitive scientists |
- Mary Ainsworth
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- Justin L. Barrett
- Jay Belsky
- Jesse Bering
- David F. Bjorklund
- Paul Bloom
- John Bowlby
- Pascal Boyer
- Joseph Bulbulia
- David Buss
- Josep Call
- Anne Campbell
- Donald T. Campbell
- Peter Carruthers
- Noam Chomsky
- Leda Cosmides
- Martin Daly
- Paul Ekman
- Bruce J. Ellis
- Anne Fernald
- Aurelio José Figueredo
- Diana Fleischman
- Uta Frith
- Gordon G. Gallup
- David C. Geary
- Gerd Gigerenzer
- Jonathan Haidt
- Harry Harlow
- Judith Rich Harris
- Martie Haselton
- Stephen Kaplan
- Douglas T. Kenrick
- Simon M. Kirby
- Robert Kurzban
- Brian MacWhinney
- Michael T. McGuire
- Geoffrey Miller
- Darcia Narvaez
- Katherine Nelson
- Randolph M. Nesse
- Steven Neuberg
- David Perrett
- Henry Plotkin
- Steven Pinker
- Paul Rozin
- Mark Schaller
- David P. Schmitt
- Nancy Segal
- Todd K. Shackelford
- Roger Shepard
- Irwin Silverman
- Peter K. Smith
- Dan Sperber
- Anthony Stevens
- Frank Sulloway
- Michael Tomasello
- Joshua Tybur
- Mark van Vugt
- Andrew Whiten
- Glenn Wilson
- Margo Wilson
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Research centers/ organizations |
- Center for Evolutionary Psychology
- Human Behavior and Evolution Society
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- New England Complex Systems Institute
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| Publications |
- The Adapted Mind
- Evolution and Human Behavior
- The Evolution of Human Sexuality
- Evolution, Mind and Behaviour
- Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
- Evolutionary Psychology
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