Deb Lieberman
@lieberman_deb
Co-Founder Media Bite; Evolutionary Psychologist; Professor, University of Miami; Researcher of disgust, morality, kinship, sex, law, gratitude, cooperation
What is the defining feature of humanity? Is it art? Morality? Self-awareness? No, it’s bullshit. Introducing my free newsletter, “Everything Is Bullshit”. everythingisbullshit.substack.com (1/7)
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Putting the “Natural” in Natural Law hbes.com/?p=45055
“What I find naive is the belief that human mental abilities make culture possible and yet do not in any way determine its content and organization.”
Closing the gender wage gap opens the unpaid household labor gap... and it's eviscerating women’s mental health. My take on the problem and what we can do @PsychToday #thewellnessmismatch | Psychology Today #gender #evolutionarypsychology #mismatch psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/2023…
Our view on the evolution of the use of psychoactive plant substances: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…
"At the level of information processing, one cannot distinguish emotion from reason. Concepts such as inputs, weightings, integrators, trade-offs, outputs & feedback loops hold better promise in modeling the evolved circuitry guiding human judgements…"👏 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…
American Naturalist used to be a great journal. Very sad. How could they sink so low? whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/12/29/a-o…
Do dogs understand object permanence? The tails say it all... 😂 i.imgur.com/20NoYS8.gifv
Reading about the unwanted advances men sometimes make today in NYT. Made me think of my post on Psychology Today. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/man-wo…
