Jesse Bering

Jesse Bering is a science writer, research psychologist, and head of the Science Communication program at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life; Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human; Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us; and Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves , which was published by the University of Chicago Press. His writing has appeared in the Chicago...See more

Jesse Bering is a science writer, research psychologist, and head of the Science Communication program at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life; Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human; Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us; and Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves , which was published by the University of Chicago Press. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune , Discover , The Guardian , The New Republic , The New York Times , Playboy , Scientific American , The Telegraph , Slate , Vice , and other outlets. He currently writes a weekly column for the French magazine Le Point. See less