Michael McGuire

Michael McGuire, M.D., is Professor of Psychology and Biobehavior Sciences, a member of the Brain Research Institute, and Director of the Non-Human Primate Laboratory at the Universityof California(Los Angeles). He is also Research Director of the Gruter Institute for Low and Behavioral Research. His research interests are focused on evolutionary approaches to social behavior. The publications include the books: The Saint Kitts Vervet, Reconstruction in Psychoanalysis, Ethological Psychiatry, and Darwinian Psychiatry. He was the founding editor of the journal Ethology and Sociobiology from 1979.

This will be his first participation in Human Ethology Schools in Russia. The topics of his lecture set are Status, information, and physiology: 1. The history of a finding, 2. Where the finding led, and 3. Current outlook