David A. Pizarro

David A. Pizarro is an American psychologist and podcaster. He is a Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. His research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of human morality, as well as on the influence of emotions on decision-making, particularly on the emotion of disgust.

Pizarro is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Career After receiving his PhD, Pizarro became a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Since 2006, Pizarro has been a professor in the department of psychology at Cornell University.

Pizarro also co-hosts the podcast Very Bad Wizards along with the philosopher Tamler Sommers, from the University of Houston.

Awards and honors Pizarro was the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University in 2014. He was the recipient of the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award from Cornell University in 2021. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.