Loye went on to become the editor of Oklahoma Today magazine [6] before moving to Princeton New Jersey in 1960. While there he began attending the New School and ultimately earned a master's degree and a doctorate in psychology.[7] Loye wrote the national award-winning (Anisfield-Wolfe Award, 1972) book, The Healing of a Nation,.[8] This book focused on history and solutions to healing the "sickness" of racism in America.
During this time Loye moved to a job with the Educational Testing Services in Princeton, New Jersey.[9] After his Phd was awarded he began a short-term position at Princeton University (1970-1971), Before moving to Los Angeles to become a UCLA School of Medicine Research Director for the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and Neuropsychiatric Institute (1971–78).[10] Along with Roderic Gorney and Gary Steele, Loye developed the groundwork for the study on television violence its impact of mass entertainment on evolution and human survival.[11][12]
In the 1980s Loye moved to Carmel, California and transitioned to full-time writing and research on the evolution within society in a social context. He worked with his partner and wife, Riane Eisler, along with evolution theorist Ervin Laszlo[13] on concepts of a cooperatively oriented theory of evolution.[14]
These three, along with others, became co-founders of the multinational General Evolution Research Group and World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, of which Loye is a former book review editor and continuing member of the editorial board.[15]
Charles Darwin
In the 1990s Loye wrote about Charles Darwin’s case for moral evolution rather than the "survival of the fittest/selfish gene theory" mindset as a higher order prime driver for human evolution. Of his book Darwin’s Lost Theory, internationally eminent scientist Ervin Laszlo has written: "...everyone concerned with our understanding of evolution on this planet owes Loye a deep debt of gratitude... Of urgent importance to the intellectual discourse of our time...[he] has brought his unique erudition to an enormous and critical task, and carried it off with genius...Should cause a revolution in social theory...Dramatically changes our understanding of Darwin and of evolution itself...One of the major books of the early Twenty-First Century".[16][17]
Personal life and death
Loye married twice, first to Billy Henslee Loye, and secondly to author Riane Eisler. He had four children. Loye died in Carmel, California on January 25, 2022, at the age of 96.[18]
The Moral Pioneering Award of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, presentation by Fred Abraham, President, 1993.
Award for Dedication "to the knowledge of what matters most to future life" by the Foundation for Ethics and Meaning, presentation by Bruce Novak, President, 2000.
Honorary Doctorate by the pioneering institution for humanistic psychology and systems science, the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, presentation by Lorne Buchman, President, 2008.[19]
1977. The Leadership Passion: A Psychology of Ideology. San Francisco, CA.: Jossey-Bass. ISBN978-0875893020 (IUniverse reprint: ISBN096655146X)
1978. The Knowable Future: A Psychology of Forecasting and Prophecy. New York: Wiley-Interscience. ISBN9780471035664
1983. The Sphinx and the Rainbow: Brain, Mind and Future Vision. Boston: Shambhala New Science Library. ISBN039472187X (IUniverse reprint ISBN0966551478)
(Ed.) 1998. The Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution. Twickenham, England: Adamantine Press; Westport, CT: Praeger.
1990. Eisler, Riane and D. Loye. The Partnership Way: New tools for living and learning, healing our families, our world (a practical companion for The Chalice and the Blade). San Francisco. Harper. 242pp. ISBN0062502905
2000. An Arrow Through Chaos: How We See Into the Future. Rochester, VT.: Park Street Press. ISBN0892818492
(Ed.) 2004. The Great Adventure: toward fully human theory of evolution. Albany, SUNY Press. ISBN0791459233
2007. Bankrolling Evolution: A Program for a President. Carmel, CA.: Benjamin Franklin Press. ISBN0978982703
2007. Measuring Evolution: A Leadership Guide to the Health and Wealth of Nations. Carmel, CA.: Benjamin Franklin Press. ISBN0978982711
2007. Darwin’s Lost Theory: Who We Really Are and Where We’re Going. Carmel, CA.: Benjamin Franklin Press. ISBN0978982762
2007. Darwin on Love. Carmel, CA.: Benjamin Franklin Press.
2007. The River and the Star: the lost story of the great explorers of the better world. Benjamin Franklin Press, 456 pp. ISBN0978982789
2010. Darwin's Lost Theory: Bridge to a Better World. [updated third edition]. Carmel, CA: Benjamin Franklin Press. ISBN0595001319
2010 Darwin’s Second Revolution. Carmel CA, Benjamin Franklin Press. 242pp. ISBN0979525756
^Loye, David; Gorney, Roderic; Steele, Gary (1977). "An Experimental Field Study". Journal of Communication. 27 (3): 206–216. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1977.tb02149.x.
^Comstock, George (1978). "The Impact of Television on American Institutions". Journal of Communication. 28 (2): 12–28. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1978.tb01588.x.
