Robert Hinde

Robert Aubrey Hinde CBE FRS FBA /haɪnd/ (born 26 October 1923 in Norwich, England) is a British zoologist, the Emeritus Royal Society Research Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.^[1]

Hinde was the master of St. John's College, Cambridge in 1989-94.^[2] He is the chair of British Pugwash. He studies "the application of biological and psychological data to understanding the bases of religion and ethics" and "eliminating the causes of war".^[3]

Hinde was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge and at Balliol College, Oxford.

He is a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association.

Publications

• Animal behaviour: a synthesis of ethology and comparative psychology. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. ISBN 0-07028-927-1
• Biological Bases of Human Social Behaviour (1974).^[4]
• . "Can Nonhuman Primates Help Us Understand Human Behavior?". In Smuts, B.B.; Cheney, D.L.; Seyfarth, R.M.; Wrangham, R.W.; Struhsaker T.T. (eds). Primate Societies. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. pp. 413–420. ISBN 0-226-76715-9. 
• Cooperation and prosocial behaviour (Ed. with Jo Groebel). Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-521-39110-5
• The institution of war (Ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. ISBN 0-312-06611-2
• Relationships: a dialectical perspective. Hove, East Sussex: Psychological Press, 1997. ISBN 0-86377-706-6
• Why gods persist: a scientific approach to religion. London: Routledge, 1999. ISBN 0-415-20825-4
• Why good is good: the sources of morality. London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-27752-3
• War, no more: eliminating conflict in the nuclear age (Ed. with Joseph Rotblat). London: Pluto Press, 2003. ISBN 0-7453-2192-5
• Van der Horst FCP; Van der Veer R; Van IJzendoorn MH (2007). "John Bowlby and ethology: An annotated interview with Robert Hinde". Attachment & Human Development. 9 (4): 321–335. doi:10.1080/14616730601149809. ISSN 1469-2988. PMID 17852051. Retrieved 2007-11-30. #

References

External links

• Robert Hinde interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 7 and 20 November 2007 (film)
• Listen to an oral history interview with Robert Hinde - a life story interview recorded for An Oral History of British Science at the British Library