Research Overview
My research investigates the cognitive mechanisms mediating kin detection in humans and the emotive and decision–making programs that guide kin–directed behavior (e.g., altruism and inbreeding avoidance). Other research interests include social categorization, the neuroscience of emotions (e.g., disgust), and applications of evolutionary psychology and biology in law and medicine. Below is a list of publications with links to the articles. Please note: Reprints are provided for scholarly purposes only. Permission to reprint any article must be sought from the holder of the copyright.
Articles
Lieberman, D., Tybur, J., & Latner, J. (in press). Disgust sensitivity and obesity stigma: How anti-fat attitudes relate to different disgust domains for men and women. Obesity
Lieberman, D. & Lobel, T. (in press). Kinship on the Kibbutz: Coresidence duration predicts altruism, personal sexual aversions, and moral attitudes among communally reared peers. Evolution and Human Behavior
Lieberman, D., Fessler, D.M.T., & Smith, A. (2011). The Relationship Between Familial Resemblance and Sexual Attraction: An Update on Westermarck, Freud, and the Incest Taboo. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1229-1232.
Tybur, J.M., Bryan, A.D., Lieberman, D., Caldwell Hooper, A.E., & Merriman, L.A. (2011). Sex differences and sex similarities in disgust sensitivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 51,
343-348.
Oum, R. E., Lieberman, D., & Aylward, A. (2011). A feel for disgust: Tactile cues to pathogen presence. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 717-725.
Lieberman, D., Pillsworth, E. G., & Haselton, M. G. (2011). Kin affiliation across the ovulatory cycle: Females avoid fathers when fertile. Psychological Science, 22, 13-18.
Cope, L.M., Schaich Borg, J., Harenski, C. L., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Lieberman, D., Nyalakanti, P.K., Calhoun, V.D., & Kiehl, K.A. (2010). Hemispheric asymmetries during processing of immoral stimuli.
Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, 2(110), 1-14.
DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., Tybur, J. M., Lieberman, D., & Griskevicius, V. (2010). Women’s preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not moral or sexual disgust.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 69-74.
Lieberman, D. & Gangestad, S. (2010). Evolution and human behavior. In D. F. Westneat & C. W. Fox (Eds.) Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology (pp. 531-548). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Tybur, J., Lieberman, D., & Griskevicius, V. (2009). Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 103-122.
Lieberman, D. (2009). Rethinking the Taiwanese minor marriage data: Evidence the mind uses multiple kinship cues to regulate inbreeding avoidance. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 153-160.
Lieberman, D. (2009). Incest. In H. T. Reis & S.K. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships: Vol 2 (pp. 833-835). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Lieberman, D., Haselton, M., von Hippel, B. (2009). Kin selection. In H. T. Reis & S.K. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships: Vol 2 (pp. 954-957). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Schaich Borg, J., Lieberman, D., & Kiehl, K. (2008). Infection, Incest, and Iniquity: Investigating the neural correlates of disgust and morality. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1529-1546.
Lieberman, D., Oum, R. E. & Kurzban, R. (2008). The family of fundamental social categories includes kinship: Evidence from the memory confusion paradigm.
European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 998-1012.
Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., Sell, A., Lieberman, D., & Sznycer, D. (2008). Internal regulatory variables and the design of human motivation: A computational and evolutionary approach.
In A. Elliot (Ed.), Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation (pp. 251-272). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
Lieberman, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2007). The architecture of human kin detection. Nature, 445, 727-731.
Additonal information.
Lieberman, D. & Linke, L. (2007). The effect of social category on third party punishment. Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 289-305.
Lieberman, D. (2007). Darwinian psychology: A modern-day Hercules. Evolution & Human Behavior, 28, 211-213.
Tal, I. & Lieberman, D. (2007). Kin detection and the development of sexual aversions: Towards an integration of theories on family sexual abuse.
In C. A. Salmon & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Family Relationships: An Evolutionary Perspective (pp. 205-229). Oxford University Press.
Lieberman, D. (2007). Evolutionary psychology and developmental systems theory. In S. Gangestad & J. Simpson (Eds.), The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies (pp. 193-202).
New York: Guilford Press.
Lieberman, D. (2007). Moral sentiments relating to incest: Discerning adaptations from by–products. In W. Sinnott–Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology Volume 1: The Evolution of Morality (pp. 165-208).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lieberman, D. (2007). Aligning evolutionary psychology and social cognition: Inbreeding avoidance as an example of investigations into categorization, decision rules, and emotions.
In J. Forgas, M. Haselton, & B. von Hippel (Eds.), The Evolution of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition (pp. 179-194). New York: Psychology Press.
Oum, R. E. & Lieberman, D. (2007). Emotion is cognition: An information processing view of the mind. In K. D. Vohs, R. F. Baumeister, & G. Loewenstein (Eds.),
Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? A Hedgefoxian perspective (133-154). New York: Russell Sage.
Lieberman, D. (2007). Sociobiological Theory. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Vol. 2 (pp. 926-927). New York: Russell Sage.
Lieberman, D. (2006). Causal explanations of human behavior: From culture to psychology or from psychology to culture? Psychological Inquiry, 17, 109–115.
Lieberman, D. (2006). Mate selection: Adaptive problems and evolved cognitive programs. In P. Noller and J. A. Feeney (Eds.), Frontiers of Social Psychology: Close Relationships, (pp. 245–266).
NY: Psychology Press.
Lieberman, D. & Hatfield, E. (2006). Passionate love: Cross–cultural and evolutionary perspectives. In R.J. Sternberg & K.Weis (Eds.), The Psychology of Love, 2nd ed., (pp. 274-297).
Cambridge, MA: Yale University Press.
Lieberman, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2003). Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments regarding incest. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B, 270, 819–826.
Lieberman, D. & Symons, D. (1998). Sibling incest avoidance: From Westermarck to Wolf. Quarterly Review of Biology, 73 (4), 463–466.