Michael Numan

Michael Numan is currently a Research Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). He was recently named by ScholarGPS as a Highly Ranked Scholar for Lifetime Achievements.

His recent (2020) book, The Parental Brain: Mechanisms, Development, and Evolution, explores how the parental brain works in animals and humans, how its development can go awry, leading to faulty maternal behavior, and how the parental brain served as a foundation for the evolution of other types of prosocial behaviors.

His 2015 book, Neurobiology of Social Behavior, received a 2016 PROSE award for excellence in scholarly publishing in the area of Biomedicine and Neuroscience (Honorable Mention).