Jose is interested in a variety of topics including mating, negotiations, power, and group processes and then asking the ultimate question "why?" which Jose reckons evolutionary theory does a fairly good job addressing. Jose has an almost split-personality approach to life: on the one hand an intense antisocial hermit (which is great for research and his pursuits in art), on the other someone who's drawn to large, collective, and boisterous expressions of joie de vivre and strobe lights (read: rave parties) and leads a second life as a trance DJ in an alternate universe.