Stephanie Preston

Episode 7: Heroism and Heroic Actions: Stephanie Preston

March 13th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  56 mins 2 secs

behavior, brain, cognition, evolution, evolutionary psychology, hero, heroism, michigan, preston, psychology

What makes a hero? Guest Stephanie Preston, director of the Ecological Neuroscience Lab at the University of Michigan, takes an evolutionary look at what might underlie extraordinary acts, done at great personal risk, to help or save the life of others.