Erica Berman, PhD

07/28/2025

My latest blog post.https://manage.wix.com/dashboard/95e34dba-dddd-4f25-a514-717e035f68ac/blog/2cb9fb0d-8700-4e83-a6ce-9ca741a75821/edit

06/24/2025

If you are struggling with infertility, please stay away from Google!

We owe it to those facing infertility to ensure the information they find online is accurate, compassionate, and safe...

06/08/2025

One aspect of my work is doing fertility counselling with the LGBTQT+ community, assisting them to build families, mostly through the use of egg donors, s***m donors, and/or gestational carriers (surrogacy). I am very passionate about this work and about supporting diversity in terms of what we cons...

04/21/2025

04/21/2025

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/an-upward-spiral-how-small-acts-of-kindness-and-connection-really-can-change-the-world-according-to?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

A psychologist explains how individual acts of kindness and connection can have a real impact on global change.

03/28/2025

A new study suggests our moral leanings—whether utilitarian or Kantian—may be influenced more by genetics than by upbringing.

01/25/2025

Depression symptoms are associated with effort-based decisions: anxiety with greater cognitive effort, anhedonia and apathy with physical effort avoidance, and greater depression severity with lower task-leaving thresholds.

12/21/2024

Stanford researchers found that dopamine and serotonin work in opposition, like an accelerator and brake, to balance reward learning and decision-making, requiring both systems to function together for effective learning and behavioral flexibility.

12/08/2024

2024 had me escaping into fiction since reality has been so WTF, but I did manage to get through this stack of non-fiction. Because I don’t know about you, but I feel a desperate need these days to understand humanity and the world! If you too feel anxious and distressed by everything, get offline and some good . I particularly recommend anything written by

11/19/2024

https://www.classaction.org/pgt-a-ivf-genetic-testing-lawsuit

Lawsuits have been filed claiming IVF patients have been misled about the benefits and accuracy of PGT-A testing. Learn more and find out how you could get involved.

06/17/2024

Seeing a man do the household chores seems to reassure girls that it's no longer 1950