He is also the Chief Science Officer of BEworks, a behavioral economics consulting firm, and is the co-host of the Very Bad Wizards Podcast.
[3] Pizarro graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Pacific Union College in 1997 and received his Ph.D in social psychology from Yale University in 2002 (under the supervision of Peter Salovey and Paul Bloom).
Pizarro was interviewed about his work on disgust by Richard Dawkins for his documentary Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life.
[7][8] Since 2012, Pizarro has been co-host of the podcast Very Bad Wizards, along with the philosopher Tamler Sommers, from the University of Houston.
[11] In 2021 he was the recipient of the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award from Cornell University in 2021.