Jesse Bering, Ph.D.

Jesse Bering is an experimental psychologist and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the Queen's University, Belfast.

Jesse Bering is a reader in the School of History and Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the Queen's University, Belfast. Jesse's early research was on the psychological similarities and differences between human beings and chimpanzees, but more recently his work has centered on the psychological foundations of religious belief and behavior. Even more recently, Jesse and his students have begun investigating how our ancestors' concerns about their reputations may have fundamentally altered the course of human social evolution. The author of numerous scientific articles and popular essays ranging from children's thoughts on the afterlife to folk conceptions of destiny, he is an American presently living in a small village somewhere in Northern Ireland.