MEDIA | UPCOMING TALKS

The Next Generation Podcast (forthcoming, 2025)

KQED Forum (NPR), San Francisco (October 16, 2025). Interview + chat

Kinfolk Magazine (September 2025). Friendship Issue

Evolutionary Psychology: The Podcast (June 17, 2025). Apple Podcasts

Vox (June 11,2025). The surprising way romance my affect your friendships

National Journal (May 13, 2025). Computers as friends? How chatbots fill a void, pose a risk

The New York Times (May 9, 2025). 25 questions to bring you closer to your mom

Vox (May 7, 2025). The secret to actually trusting each other

NPR's Academic Minute. (March 2025). On the origins of bodily law

Vox (December 2, 2024). Can men and women still be friends?

The Atlantic (October 25, 2024). Americans are hoarding their friends

Slate (September 26, 2024). Keep ‘em separated

Mornings with Simi, CKNW 980 Vancouver Radio (November 15, 2024). Interview

Daily Mail (August 15, 2024). Bitching is good for you

The Art of Manliness Podcast (June 2024). Interview

Los Angeles Times (April 30, 2024). Can straight married men and women be friends?

The New York Times (March 15, 2022). How do you react when your friendships change?

The New York Times (March 4, 2022). Jealousy doesn’t have to ruin a friendship

UCLA Technology & Development Group Annual Board Meeting (Keynote)—Friendship is a Multi-Player Game (December 10, 2025)

UC-Riverside —Friendship is a Multi-Player Game (December 4, 2025)

PUBLIC TALK: Lecture on Tap @ Boomtown Brewery —How Evolution Wired our Brains for Friendship (December 2, 2025)

Center for the Study of Human Nature @ CSU Fullerton —Friendship...and the Supra-Dyadic Nature of Challenges in Close Relationships (November 21, 2025)

Bruin Family Weekend @ UCLA (Royce Hall) —The Anti-Lonely Brain: How Evolution Wired our Brains for Friendship (November 7, 2025)