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Edward Hagen is a biological anthropologist who specializes in the evolution of depression, self-harm, psychoactive drug use, among other topics.

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Edward Hagen is a Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University where he has taught since 2007. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara in 1999 under the supervision of John Tooby and took a postdoc in Peter Hammerstein’s group at the Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, from 2001 to 2007. Hagen has published on numerous topics in evolutionary psychological theory, but his work predominately centers on evolutionary approaches to noninfectious disease, particularly mental health. He is best known for his evolutionary theoretical research on depression and psychoactive drug use. His publications defending the field of evolutionary psychology against its critics are also widely cited.

The Bargaining Model of Depression, Self-Harm, and Suicidal Behavior

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Syme, K. (2018). Edward Hagen. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_201-1

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