BARBARA OAKLEY

   

    Explorations in mind and place

Articles

"Killing with Kindness: Studying the evolution of altruistic behaviors reveals how knee-jerk good intentions can backfire," by Barbara Oakley, Guruprasad Madhavan, Ariel Knafo, and David Sloan Wilson, February 1, 2012.

"Your good = my bad: When helping hurts" by Barbara Oakley, Oxford University Press Blog, Nov 16, 2011.

"Beware of Dog", Michael L. Tan, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Nov 17, 2011. (Pathological altruism in Philippine politics.)

"Twain House Embezzler: A 'Pathological Altruist'"? by Edmund Mahony, The Hartford Courant, Nov 19, 2011.

The UK Independent "Are We Killing People with Kindness?" by Barbara Oakley, 6 November 2011.

The New York Times "The Pathological Altruist Gives Till Someone Hurts," by Natalie Angier,
October 3, 2011.

Review of Cold-Blooded Kindness in ForeWord Reviews, July/​August 2011.

"Barbara Oakley on neuroquirks you never knew you had," Interview with Linda Zemel at Buffalo Books, July 25, 2011.

Interview with Carter Bowles on Trending SidewaysJuly 16, 2011.

"Is Empathy Killing Your Career?" Invited author guest blog on CNBC.

Review of Cold-Blooded Kindness by Joyce Alexander, RNP, at LoveFraud, May 6, 2011.

Review of Cold-Blooded Kindness from Psychology Today
“This true-crime tale is as oxymoronic as the title suggests: An animal-loving mother of four kills her husband execution-style. Oakley studs the book with input from experts on battered women, altruism, and empathy gone awry. Her approach taps another paradox: We can understand genetic influences and remain baffled by any one human’s behavior. Read this if you’re convinced people are never who they appear to be.”
-Psychology Today Bookshelf, April 2011.

Writing Raw's 7 Questions with Barbara Oakley, June, 2009.

"Writing Compelling Nonfiction," Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Book Reviews, Volume 8, Number 2, July-December 2009.

"What a Tangled Web We Weave," The Scientist, April 10th, 2009.

Review of Evil Genes on Living the Scientific Life, March 27th, 2009, and The Scienceblogs Book Club, April 1st, 2009.

"The Mind of a Thief: How to Protect Yourself While Traveling" article by Jason Policastro based on an interview with Barbara Oakley, Traveller's Notebook, February 21, 2009.

Review of Evil Genes on Metapsychology Online Reviews, January 20th, 2009.


Video review of Evil Genes
on Joanne Manaster's Joanne Loves Science blog, January 10th, 2009.

Review of Evil Genes on Neurotopia, a blog "chock full of glial goodness." December 4th, 2008.

Review of Evil Genes on the blog Gene Expression. December 3rd, 2008.

Review of Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology by Mark Riley in the Journal of Biological Engineering, November 25th, 2008.

"Interview with Barbara Oakley: Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Book Reviews, by Professor Anil Aggrawal, September 19th, 2008.

"A Prototypical Modern-Day, Stable Sinister System: Texas Southern University," excerpt from Evil Genes in Rick Reis's Tomorrow's Professor Blog, September 16th, 2008.

"A Genetic Basis for Evil?" Review of Evil Genes by Professor Anil Aggrawal (Editor-in-Chief), Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Book Reviews, September 20th, 2008. "...I was quite impr­essed by the book, and would like to keep the book in my library for ever. Very good thought provoking read..."

"An Interview with Barbara Oakley: Evil Genes," by Michael F. Shaughnessy, EdNews, September 8, 2008.

Review of Evil Genes in Crime Times: Linking Brain Dysfunction to Disordered/​Criminal/​Psychopathic Behavior, Friday, April 18, 2008.


Review of Evil Genes by Robert J. Richards, "Bad Seeds" in The American Scientist, March/​April 2008. See rebuttal above.