Darcia Narvaez

Darcia Narvaez is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her research explores species-typical development, wellbeing, morality, and sustainable wisdom, integrating evolutionary, anthropological, neurobiological, and developmental perspectives. She investigates how early experience shapes human nature and moral functioning.

Key Contributions:

• Developed the Evolved Nest concept for optimal development
• Studies indigenous sustainable wisdom and ecocentric virtue development
• Recipient of William James Book Award and Expanded Reason Award

Her work examines how fulfilling humanity's evolved developmental niche fosters wellbeing, prosociality, and ecological consciousness.