Max Krasnow, Ph.D., teaches in the Division of Continuing Education at Harvard University. After completing his Ph.D in Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2010, he joined the faculty of Psychology at Harvard University as an assistant professor. 

Max's research spans many areas of psychology, including the psychology of why we are so nice but also so mean, how we find our way to places we want to return, how children learn how to use tools, and how we became a musical species, and it has been published in leading journals, including Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Academy, Psychological Science, and Evolution & Human Behavior.