Robert Hinde

Robert Aubrey Hinde
Born	(1923-10-26) 26 October 1923 Norwich, England
Nationality	United Kingdom
Fields	Zoology
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Alma mater	University of Cambridge University of Oxford
Notable awards	Frink Medal (1991) Royal Medal (1996)

Robert Aubrey Hinde CBE FRS FBA /haɪnd/ (born 26 October 1923 in Norwich, England) is a British zoologist, the Emeritus Royal Society Research Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

Hinde was the master of St. John's College, Cambridge in 1989-94. He is the chair of British Pugwash. He studies "the application of biological and psychological data to understanding the bases of religion and ethics" and "eliminating the causes of war".

Hinde was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge and at Balliol College, Oxford.

He is a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association.

Publications

• Animal behaviour: a synthesis of ethology and comparative psychology. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. ISBN 0-07028-927-1
• Biological Bases of Human Social Behaviour (1974).
• Cooperation and prosocial behaviour (Ed. with Jo Groebel). Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-521-39110-5
• The institution of war (Ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. ISBN 0-312-06611-2
• Relationships: a dialectical perspective. Hove, East Sussex: Psychological Press, 1997. ISBN 0-86377-706-6
• Why gods persist: a scientific approach to religion. London: Routledge, 1999. ISBN 0-415-20825-4
• Why good is good: the sources of morality. London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-27752-3
• War, no more: eliminating conflict in the nuclear age (Ed. with Joseph Rotblat). London: Pluto Press, 2003. ISBN 0-7453-2192-5
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External links

• Robert Hinde interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 7 and 20 November 2007 (film)
• Listen to an oral history interview with Robert Hinde - a life story interview recorded for An Oral History of British Science at the British Library

Academic offices
Preceded by Francis Harry Hinsley	Master of St John's College, Cambridge 1989–1994	Succeeded by Peter Goddard