Satoshi Kanazawa (born 16 November 1962) is an American-born English evolutionary psychologist and writer.
He is currently Reader in Management at the London School of Economics.
His work uses evolutionary psychology to analyse social sciences such as sociology, economics, and anthropology.
Kanazawa's comments and research on race and intelligence, health and intelligence, multiculturalism, and the relationship between physical attractiveness and intelligence have led to condemnation from observers and colleagues.
He attributes this to political correctness and censorship, while his critics have described his claims as pseudoscientific and racist.In response to ongoing controversies over his stated views, such as Sub-Saharan Black African countries suffer from chronic poverty and disease because their people have lower IQs, and black women are objectively less attractive than women of other races, he was dismissed from writing for Psychology Today, and his employer, the London School of Economics, prohibited him from publishing in non-peer-reviewed outlets for 12 months.
A group of 68 evolutionary psychologists issued an open letter titled "Kanazawa's bad science does not represent evolutionary psychology" rejecting his views, and an article on the same theme was published by 35 academics in American Psychologist.