David Berreby
Encyclopedia
David Berreby is the author of the award-winning book Us and Them: The Science of Identity
(2008, University of Chicago Press). His work has appeared in The New Yorker
, Nature, The New York Times Magazine
, Slate
, Smithsonian, The Journal of Strategy and Business, The Huffington Post
and many other publications.
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David has worked as an Editor for the City University of New York, Associate Editor for The Sciences at the New York Academy of Sciences, as well as a Freelancer for Discover Magazine. In 1995 David became Science Writing Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in a the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, The New Republic, Slate, Lingua Franca and many other publications.
(under its previous name Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind) won the 2006 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Media Ecology Association.
Us and Them: The Science of Identity
Us and Them: The Science of Identity is a book by author David Berreby, published by the University of Chicago Press. In this book David Berreby mixes neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology, and other fields to explore the “tribal mind” or group identity and how it affects every aspect of...
(2008, University of Chicago Press). His work has appeared in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Nature, The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...
, Slate
Slate (magazine)
Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
, Smithsonian, The Journal of Strategy and Business, The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...
and many other publications.
Biography
David Berreby is an award winning independent science writer and researcher. He was born in France in 1958 to an American mother and Jewish father. His native language is English, although he briefly spoke French. He has spent most of his life in New York City, but attended a "chaotic and untraditional high school run by hippies and idealists" in California. He received his B.A. in English in 1981 from Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
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David has worked as an Editor for the City University of New York, Associate Editor for The Sciences at the New York Academy of Sciences, as well as a Freelancer for Discover Magazine. In 1995 David became Science Writing Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in a the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, The New Republic, Slate, Lingua Franca and many other publications.
Awards
David Berreby's book, Us and Them: The Science of IdentityUs and Them: The Science of Identity
Us and Them: The Science of Identity is a book by author David Berreby, published by the University of Chicago Press. In this book David Berreby mixes neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology, and other fields to explore the “tribal mind” or group identity and how it affects every aspect of...
(under its previous name Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind) won the 2006 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Media Ecology Association.
Works by David Berreby
- Us and Them: The Science of IdentityUs and Them: The Science of IdentityUs and Them: The Science of Identity is a book by author David Berreby, published by the University of Chicago Press. In this book David Berreby mixes neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology, and other fields to explore the “tribal mind” or group identity and how it affects every aspect of...
(University Of Chicago Press) - The Case for Fitting In
- Bird's Life,
- The Punishment Fits the Crime,
- Ravens, Robots, and the Nature of Humanness,
- Genius in the Making:If a scientific theory about Jews being smart is so politically incorrect, why aren't more people complaining?,
- Human Kinds in the Brain: An MRI scan of racial perception,
- Can a language be "endangered"?,
- Human Kinds in the Making: Race and the Mind,
- Dear Colleague...,
- Murray Gell-Mann's Quest,
- Human Kinds in the Making: The Attention Deficit Tribe
External links
- http://generalsemantics.org/misc/2008akmlsymposium/2008_program.pdf
- http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorID=2599
- http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.david.berreby
- http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1221
- http://www.media-ecology.org/awards/recipients.html
- http://www.amazon.com/Us-Them-Identity-David-Berreby/dp/0226044653
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-berreby/#blogger_bio
- author's official website