Jesse Bering

Jesse Bering, PhD, is a frequent contributor to Scientific American and Slate. His writing has also appeared in New York magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic, among other publications, and has been featured by NPR, Playboy Radio, the BBC, and more. The author of The God Instinct, Bering is the former director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queenâe(tm)s University, Belfast, and began his career as a professor at the University of Arkansas. He lives in Ithaca, New York.