Background
Berreby, David was born on May 19, 1958 in Versailles, France. Son of Jean-Jacques Berreby and Ruth Hawkins. mother American citizen.
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Us and Them: The Science of Identity
( Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. B...)
Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White. As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. And once we identify ourselves as a member of a particular group—say, Red Sox fans—we tend to feel more comfortable with others of our own kind, rather than, say, Yankees fans. Yet we all belong to multiple groups at the same time—one might be a woman, a mother, an American, a violinist. How do we decide which identities matter and why they matter so much? And what makes us willing to die for, or to kill for, a religion, a nation, or a race? In this award-winning book, David Berreby describes how twenty-first-century science is addressing these age-old questions. Ably linking neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology, and other fields, Us and Them investigates humanity’s “tribal mind” and how this alters our thoughts, affects our health, and is manipulated for good and ill. From the medical effects of stress to the rhetoric of politics, our perceptions of group identity affect every part of our lives. Science, Berreby argues, shows how this part of human nature is both unexpectedly important and surprisingly misunderstood. Humans need our tribal sense—it tells us who we are, how we should behave, and links us to others as well as the past and future. Some condemn this instinct, while others celebrate it. Berreby offers in Us and Them a third alternative: how we can accept and understand our inescapable tribal mind. “A brave book. . . . Berreby’s quest is to understand what he sees as a fundamental human urge to classify and identify with ‘human kinds.’”—Henry Gee, Scientific American
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Us and Them: The Science of Identity by David Berreby (2008-11-24)
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David Berreby
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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.
Career
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. David Berreby is an award winning independent science writer and researcher His native language is English, although he briefly spoke French.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in English in 1981 from Yale University.
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 the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, The New Republic, Slate, Lingua Franca and many other publications.
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Us and Them: The Science of Identity
( Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. B...)
- Us and Them: The Science of Identity by David Berreby (2008-11-24)
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Us and Them: The Science of Identity
Membership
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Theater Critics Association, National Book Critics Circle, OuterCritics Circle.
Connections
Married Gail Appleson, May 29, 1988.
