It seems natural that when a person is rewarded with a cash prize there is intense activity in the pleasure centers of his or her brain. But why do we experience neurally identical pleasure when ...

Lieberman (Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution) pulls no punches in attacking what he perceives to be the flaws of evolutionary psychology in this imbalanced scientific treatise. He argues ...

Matthew D. Lieberman, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is Director of the UCLA Social Cognitive Neuroscience ...

To make your arguments more persuasive, just tell your friends and acquaintances that brain scans back up your assertions. Mark Liberman at Language Log describes a study by Deena Skolnick at Yale ...