Catherine Salmon Ph.D.

Catherine Salmon received her BSc in Biology in 1992 and her PhD in Evolutionary Psychology in 1997 from McMaster University. After a number of blissful years as a post-doctoral researcher at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, she fled the frozen north to join the faculty at the University of Redlands in southern California where she is currently a professor in the Psychology department and on the advisory board for the Human-Animal Studies program. She is the co-author (with Donald Symons) of Warrior Lovers: Erotic fiction, evolution and female sexuality and The Secret Power of Middle Children (co-authored with Katrin Schumann). Her primary research interests include parental investment/sibling conflict, male and female sexuality, particularly as expressed in pornography and other erotic genres, and human-animal interactions. She is a founding member of SOIBS, the Society for Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Science and was, for 8 years, the editor-in-chief of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. Recent papers include Sibling Conflict and Closeness: The Effects of Sex, Number of Siblings, Relatedness, Parental Resemblance and Investment; Pornography’s ubiquitous external ejaculation: Predictors of perceptions; The Influence of Individual Differences and Local Ecological Conditions on Emotional Empathy, Cognitive Empathy, and Harm Avoidance towards Nonhuman Animals.

• Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society Fellow
   
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship
   
• Best Post-Doctoral Paper Award 1999 HBES Annual Meeting