Rate My Professor Ilan Dar-Nimrod

Dar-Nimrod’s scholarship extends to sexuality, examining the origins of sexual orientation, stigma consciousness, internalized homonegativity in lesbian, bisexual, and gay populations, sexual identity labels such as queer and pansexual, and perceptions of consensual non-monogamous relationships. He also studies existential psychology, including death anxiety’s links to worldview defense, aggression, and mental health conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder; gender psychology, covering essentialist views, binary perceptions, and intersectionality; and individual differences such as the personality trait of coolness. His seminal work, including 'Exposure to Scientific Theories Affects Women’s Math Performance' published in Science (2006) and 'Genetic Essentialism: On the Deceptive Determinism of DNA' in Psychological Bulletin (2011, cited over 1,000 times), has garnered more than 6,000 citations. Other key publications appear in Nature Human Behaviour, Genetics in Medicine, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and Journal of Sex Research, addressing topics like death anxiety in mental illnesses (2019), queer identity adoption (2017), and maximization in decision-making (2009). As a recognized expert, his contributions shape understandings of genetic determinism’s societal impacts.