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.
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.
[2] In 1995 David became Science Writing Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
[3] His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, The New Republic, Slate, Lingua Franca and many other publications.
[4] Berreby's book, Us and Them: The Science of Identity (under its previous name Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind) won the 2006 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Media Ecology Association.