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Carole Hooven teaches in and co-directs the undergraduate program in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She earned her BA in psychology from Antioch College in 1988 and her PhD at Harvard in 2004, researching sex differences and testosterone, and has taught there ever since. She has received numerous teaching awards, and her Hormones and Behavior class was named one of the Harvard Crimson's "top ten tried and true."

Her work has been featured in publications including Time Magazine, Slate Magazine, the Boston Globe, the , the New York Post, Stylist Magazine, the Australian, BBC and Talk Radio Europe.

She has discussed her work on shows including the Joe Rogan Experience, the Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, Blocked and Reported, Femsplainers, The Dissenter, ManTalks, the Richard Reeves Show, Honestly with Bari Weiss, Mindpump, the Standard Issue, Gender: a Wider Lens, Intelligence Squared, the Savage Lovecast, the Michael Shermer Show, Converging Dialogues, Sex and Psychology The Same Drugs the Andy Rowe show, and Sigma Nutrition.

Recently, Carole has been involved in some disagreements about language in science education. See commentary by Harvard Professor Harry Lewis here.

Carole lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband Alex, son Griffin and cat Lola. She loves watching birds, running and biking, Belgian beer, salty snacks and freedom of speech.