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Trusted expert with 20+ years of experience in the behavioral sciences.

Profile Summary

We have an opportunity right now—some might say a duty—to improve happiness and well-being through programs of urban planning and design that are informed by social, personality, and evolutionary science. I can help you with this.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Social Psychology
• ☆ Urban Planning & Development
• ☆ Psychology
• ☆ Human Behavior & Psychology
• ☆ Personality Analysis
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, Newswriting

Research Market Research, Gap Analysis, Systematic Literature Review

Product Development Formulation, Product Evaluation, Prototyping

Work Experience

Research Fellow

Center for Urban Design and Mental Health

January 2019 - Present

Teaching Professor and Psychology Program Coordinator

Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus

2004 - Present

Education

PhD (Psychology)

City University of London

- 2018

MS (Psychology)

The University of New Mexico

- 2000

BA (Psychology)

University of Michigan

- 1996

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

OTHER

Lauren Vorbach, Kevin Bennett(2020). Cortisol Affords Immediate Action and Alertness . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. p. 1--3. Springer International Publishing

Kevin Bennett(2019). Natural vs. Artificial Environments . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. p. 1--4. Springer International Publishing

Kevin Bennett(2019). Landscape Preferences: Climate and Weather . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. p. 1--5. Springer International Publishing

Kevin Bennett(2019). Ancestral Threats vs. Modern Threats . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. p. 1--3. Springer International Publishing

Kevin Bennett(2019). Gordon Orians . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. p. 1--3. Springer International Publishing

Kevin Bennett(2019). Savanna Hypothesis and Landscape Preferences, The . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. p. 1--4. Springer International Publishing

Kevin Bennett(2018). Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA) . Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. p. 1--3. Springer International Publishing

Kevin Bennett(2017). Adaptive Function of Aggression . Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. p. 1--3. Springer International Publishing

BOOK CHAPTER

(2020). Steven Pinker on Genetic Determinism . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.

Lauren Vorbach and Kevin Bennett(2020). Stress and Cortisol . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. p. 1--3. Springer International Publishing

Destiny Cunic and Kevin Bennett(2020). Birth Order . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. p. 1--3. Springer International Publishing

Lauren Vorbach and Kevin Bennett(2020). Cortisol Affords Immediate Action and Alertness . Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. p. 1--3. Springer International Publishing

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Kevin Bennett(2019). Psychological Science on the Eve of the Fourth Transformation: Will Spatial Computing Make Us Better Citizens? . Conscious Cities Anthology. 2019. (1). The Centre for Conscious Design

Kevin L Bennett(2018). Teaching the Monty Hall Dilemma to Explore Decision-Making, Probability, and Regret in Behavioral Science Classrooms . International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 12. (2). Georgia Southern University

Kevin Bennett(2018). Delivering Excellent Course Content from the Outset: Guiding Graduate Students and Young College Faculty Through the Process of First-Time Teaching . The National Teaching & Learning Forum. 27. (3). p. 7--9. Wiley

Kevin Bennett, Tyler Gualtieri, Becky Kazmierczyk(2018). Undoing solitary urban design: A review of risk factors and mental health outcomes associated with living in social isolation . Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health. 4. p. 7.

(2017). Narcissism and the Strategic Pursuit of Short-Term Mating . Psihologijske teme.

Schmitt, D.P., Allik, J., McCrae, R.R., Benet-Martínez, V., Alcalay, L., Ault, L., Austers, I., Bennett, K.L., Bianchi, G., Boholst, F., et al.(2007). The geographic distribution of Big Five personality traits: Patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations . Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 38. (2). p. 173-212.

Bennett, K. L. (2004). How to start teaching a tough course: Dry organization versus excitement on the first day of class. College Teaching, 52(3), 106 .

Schmitt, D.P., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Angleitner, A., Ault, L., Austers, I., Bennett, K.L., Bianchi, G., Boholst, F., Borg Cunen, M.A., et al.(2004). Patterns and Universals of Mate Poaching Across 53 Nations: The Effects of Sex, Culture, and Personality on Romantically Attracting Another Person's Partner . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 86. (4). p. 560-584.

Schmitt, D.P., Alcalay, L., Allensworth, M., Allik, J., Ault, L., Austers, I., Bennett, K.L., Bianchi, G., Boholst, F., Cunen, M.A.B., et al.(2004). Patterns and universals of adult romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions: Are models of self and of other pancultural constructs? . Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 35. (4). p. 367-402.

Schmitt, D.P., Alcalay, L., Allensworth, M., Allik, J., Ault, L., Austers, I., Bennett, K.L., Bianchi, G., Boholst, F., Borg Cunen, M.A., et al.(2003). Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions . Personal Relationships. 10. (3). p. 307-331.

Schmitt, D.P., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Ault, L., Austers, I., Bennett, K.L., Bianchi, G., Boholst, F., Borg Cunen, M.A., Braeckman, J., et al.(2003). Universal Sex Differences in the Desire for Sexual Variety: Tests from 52 Nations, 6 Continents, and 13 Islands . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 85. (1). p. 85-104.

Todd K. Shackelford, David M. Buss, Kevin Bennett(2002). Forgiveness or breakup: Sex differences in responses to a partner's infidelity . Cognition and Emotion. 16. (2). p. 299--307. Informa {UK} Limited

Schakelford, T.K., Buss, D.M., Bennett, K.(2002). Forgiveness or breakup: Sex differences in responses to a partner's infidelity . Cognition and Emotion. 16. (2). p. 299-307.

Gangestad, S.W., Bennett, K.L., Thornhill, R.(2001). A latent variable model of developmental instability in relation to men's sexual behaviour . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 268. (1477). p. 1677-1684.

Buss, D.M., Shackelford, T.K., Kirkpatrick, L.A., Choe, J.C., Lim, H.K., Hasegawa, M., Hasegawa, T., Bennett, K.(1999). Jealousy and the nature of beliefs about infidelity: Tests of competing hypotheses about sex differences in the United States, Korea, and Japan . Personal Relationships. 6. (1). p. 125-150.

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Bennett, K. (2017, November 15). No, turkey doesn't make you sleepy – but it may bring more trust to your Thanksgiving table. Retrieved November 28, 2017, from http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-no-turkey-doesnt-make-you-sleepy-but-it-may-bring-more-trust-to-your-thanksgiving-table-87052-20171115-story.html .

Bennett, K. (2017, October 26). 5 Signs Your Coworker Is a Psychopath. Retrieved November 28, 2017, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/modern-minds/201710/5-signs-your-coworker-is-psychopath .

BOOK

Bennett, K. L. (2012). Jealousy's design: Maladaptive trait or psychological solution?. Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Pub .

DISSERTATION THESIS

Bennett, K. L. (2000). Individual differences in jealousy: A social-evolutionary analysis. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.