An evolutionary biologist turned political scientist with a special interest in how new research on human nature is challenging foundational theories in international relations and conflict resolution, Dominic D. P. Johnson is a lecturer in politics at the University of Edinburgh and a fellow in the Branco Weiss Society of Science. He recently completed a three-year appointment as a fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University and a lecturer in Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Dr. Johnson is a graduate of the University of Derby, where he took first class honors. He received a D.Phil. in biology from Oxford University in 2001 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Geneva in 2004. He has been a fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, a science fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and a visiting fellow in the Global Fellows Program of the International Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles. His work revolves around the impact of evolution, psychological biases, theory of mind, and religion on the origins of human disputes and human cooperation. He has looked recently at the role of belief in supernatural punishment on the undertaking of shared efforts for the common good. In addition to more than thirty articles published in scholarly journals and chapters in volumes of collected works, he is the author of two books, Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions (2004) and (with D. R. Tierney) Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics, which was published last year by Harvard University Press and explores the psychological factors that predispose leaders, media, and the general public to perceive outcomes of crises and wars as victories or defeats