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Debra Lieberman is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States and has a research portfolio primarily situated within psychology and social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and health.

Their main research focuses on areas related to moral and emotional judgment, emotions and moral behavior, cultural differences and values, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, social and intergroup psychology, as well as forgiveness and related behaviors.

Debra Lieberman has contributed to the scientific literature with several notable papers including:

  • The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Behavioral Immune Trade-Offs: Interpersonal Value Relaxes Social Pathogen Avoidance, 2020, Psychological Science
  • Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions, 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • The evolution of disgust for pathogen detection and avoidance, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Evaluating Benefits, Costs, and Social Value as Predictors of Gratitude, 2022, Psychological Science

The frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Psychological Science
  • Scientific Reports

Debra Lieberman has collaborated with various researchers, notably including:

  • Joseph Billingsley
  • Daniel E. Forster
  • Michael E. McCullough
  • Jeni L. Burnette
  • Yohsuke Ohtsubo

Best Publications

  • Microbes, mating, and morality: individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.

    Joshua M. Tybur;Debra Lieberman;Vladas Griskevicius

  • Disgust: Evolved Function and Structure

    Joshua M. Tybur;Debra Lieberman;Robert Kurzban;Peter DeScioli

  • The architecture of human kin detection

    Debra Lieberman;Debra Lieberman;John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest.

    Debra Lieberman;John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • Infection, incest, and iniquity: Investigating the neural correlates of disgust and morality

    Jana Schaich Borg;Debra Lieberman;Kent A. Kiehl;Kent A. Kiehl

  • Internal Regulatory Variables and the Design of Human Motivation: A Computational and Evolutionary Approach

    John Tooby;Leda Cosmides;Aaron Nathaniel Sell;Debra Lieberman

  • Disgust sensitivity, obesity stigma, and gender: contamination psychology predicts weight bias for women, not men.

    Debra L. Lieberman;Josh M. Tybur;Janet D. Latner

  • Primum non nocere: an evolutionary analysis of whether antidepressants do more harm than good.

    Paul William Andrews;J. Anderson Thomson;Ananda Amstadter;Michael C Neale

  • Sex differences and sex similarities in disgust sensitivity

    Joshua M. Tybur;Angela D. Bryan;Debra Lieberman;Ann E. Caldwell Hooper

  • Human pathogen avoidance adaptations

    Joshua M Tybur;Debra Lieberman

  • The Effect of Social Category on Third Party Punishment

    Debra Lieberman;Lance Linke

  • A consensus-based transparency checklist

    Balazs Aczel;Barnabas Szaszi;Alexandra Sarafoglou;Zoltan Kekecs

  • Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not by moral or sexual disgust

    Lisa M. DeBruine;Benedict C. Jones;Joshua M. Tybur;Debra Lieberman

  • Psychological and social factors associated with wastewater reuse emotional discomfort

    Julia Wester;Kiara R. Timpano;Demet Çek;Debra Lieberman

  • The family of fundamental social categories includes kinship: Evidence from the memory confusion paradigm

    Debra Lieberman;Debra Lieberman;Robert Edison Oum;Robert Kurzban

  • Kinship on the Kibbutz: coresidence duration predicts altruism, personal sexual aversions and moral attitudes among communally reared peers

    Debra Lieberman;Thalma Lobel

  • The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights.

    Benjamin M. Seitz;Athena Aktipis;David M. Buss;Joe Alcock

  • A feel for disgust: Tactile cues to pathogen presence

    Robert Edison Oum;Debra Lieberman;Alison Aylward

  • Behavioral Immune Trade-Offs: Interpersonal Value Relaxes Social Pathogen Avoidance.

    Joshua M. Tybur;Debra Lieberman;Lei Fan;Tom R. Kupfer

  • Cooperation: The roles of interpersonal value and gratitude

    Adam Smith;Adam Smith;Eric J. Pedersen;Eric J. Pedersen;Daniel E. Forster;Michael E. McCullough

  • Rethinking the Taiwanese minor marriage data: evidence the mind uses multiple kinship cues to regulate inbreeding avoidance

    Debra Lieberman

Frequent Co-Authors

Pekka Santtila
Pekka Santtila New York University Shanghai
Joshua M. Tybur
Joshua M. Tybur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michael E. McCullough
Michael E. McCullough University of California, San Diego
Kent A. Kiehl
Kent A. Kiehl University of New Mexico
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Kurzban
Robert Kurzban University of Pennsylvania
John Tooby
John Tooby University of California, Santa Barbara
M. Gareth Gaskell
M. Gareth Gaskell University of York
Dolores Albarracín
Dolores Albarracín University of Pennsylvania

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