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Rick O'Gorman
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Essex
Rick O’Gorman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex, where he applies evolutionary psychology to social behaviour. He studied psychology at University College Cork and completed an MA at University College Dublin before earning a PhD at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he examined social norms from an evolutionary perspective with David Sloan Wilson. He has held posts at Essex, the University of Kent and Sheffield Hallam University, returning to Essex in 2009. His research interests include cooperation and altruism, prosociality, morality, social norms and conformity, and biosocial approaches to psychology.