Jesse Bering is a research psychologist and Director of the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago. An award-winning science writer specialising in human behaviour, he has enjoyed international success with his books, including The Belief Instinct, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, Suicidal and Perv, a taboo-breaking work that received widespread critical acclaim and was named as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. All of his books have been translated into many different languages. As a practising science communicator, Jesse has written extensively for Scientific American, Playboy, The New York Times and others, and his work has also been featured in numerous documentaries, TV shows, and radio programmes.
