In Press

Spunt, R .P., Satpute, A. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). Identifying the what, why, and how of an observed action: An fMRI study of mentalizing and mechanizing during action observation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. pdf

Falk, E., Rameson, L., Berkman, E., Liao, B., Kang, Y., Inagaki, T., & Lieberman, M. (in press). The neural corelates of persuasion: A common network across cultures in media. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. pdf

Rameson, L., Satpute, A., & Lieberman, M. (under review). The neural corelates of implicit and explicit self-relevant processing. Neuroimage. pdf

Berkman, E.T., & Lieberman, M.D. (in press). Approaching the bad and avoiding the good: Lateral prefrontal cortical asymmetry distinguishes between action and valence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (in press.) The Brains' Braking System (and how to 'use your words' to tap into it). Neuroleadership. PDF

Lieberman, M. D. (in press.) Why symbolic processing of affect can disrupt negative affect: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience investigations. To appear in A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske, & D. Prentice (Eds.) Social Neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind. Oxford University Press. PDF

2010

Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Social cognitive neuroscience. S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds). Handbook of Social Psychology (5th ed.) (pp. 143-193). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Request a copy

Cohen, J. R. & Lieberman, M. D. (2010). The common neural basis of exerting self-control in multiple domains. In Y. Trope, R. Hassin, & K. N. Ochsner (eds.) Self-control (141-160). pdf

2009

Lieberman, M., & Cunningham, W. A. (2009). Type I and Type II error concerns in fMRI research: Re-balancing the scale. Social Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 423-428. pdf

Master, S. L., Eisenberger, N. I., Taylor, S. E., Naliboff, B. D., Shirinyan, D., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). A picture's worth: Partner photographs reduce experimentally induced pain. Psychological Science, 20, 1316-1318. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2009). What makes big ideas sticky?. In M. Brockman (Ed), What's next? Dispatches on the future of science. New York, NY: Vintage Books. pdf

Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2009). Pains and pleasures of social life. Science, 323, 890-891. PDF

Pfeifer, J. H., Masten, C. L., Borofsky, L. A., Dapretto, M., Fuligni, A. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Neural correlates of direct and reflected self-appraisals in adolescents and adults: When social perspective taking informs self-perception. Child Development, 80, 1016-1038. pdf

Pfeifer, J. H., Dapretto, M., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). The neural foundations of evaluative self-knowledge in middle childhood, early adolescence, and adulthood. In P. D. Zelago, M. Chandler, & E. Crone (Eds.) Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience (141-163). New York, NY: Psychology Press. PDF

Berkman, E.T., & Lieberman, M.D. (2009). Using neuroscience to broaden emotion regulation: Theoretical and methodological considerations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 475-493. pdf

Berkman, E. T., Burklund, L., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Inhibitory spillover: Intentional motor inhibition produces incidental limbic inhibition via right inferior frontal cortex. Neuroimage, 47, 705-712. pdf

Lieberman, M. D., Berkman, E. T., & Wager, T. D. (2009). Correlations in social neuroscience aren’t voodoo: A reply to Vul et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 299-307. PDF

Berkman, E., Lieberman, M. D., & Gable, S. L. (2009). BIS, BAS, and response conflict: Testing predictions of the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 586-591. PDF

Amodio, D. M. & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Pictures in our heads: Contributions of fMRI to the study of prejudice and stereotyping. To appear in T. Nelson (ed.) Handbook of Prejudice and Discrimination (pp. 345-363). Taylor & Francis. pdf

Rameson, L. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Empathy: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. pdf

Berkman, E., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). The neuroscience of goal pursuit: Bridging gaps between theory and data. In G. Moskowitz & H. Grant (Eds.) The Psychology of Goals (98-126). New York, NY: Guilford Press. PDF

Lieberman, M. D. (2009). What zombies can't do: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to the irreducibility of reflective consciousness. In J. Evans & K. Frankish (Eds.) In Two Minds: Dual Process and Beyond (pp. 219-316). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Gut Feelings. In D. Sander & K. Scherer (Eds.) Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences (pp. 200-201). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf

2008

Lieberman, M. D. & Eisenberger, N. I. (2008). The pains and pleasures of social life: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Neuroleadership. pdf

O'Connor, M. F., Wellisch, D. K., Stanton, A. L., Eisenberger, N. I., Irwin, M. R., & Lieberman, M. D. (2008). Craving love? Enduring grief activates brain's reward center. NeuroImage, 42, 969-972. pdf

Crockett, M. J., Clark, L., Tabibnia, G., Lieberman, M. D., & Robbins, T. W. (2008). Serotonin modulates behavioral reactions to unfairness. Science, 320, 1739. pdf and Supporting Online Material

Taylor, S. E., Burklund, L. J., Eisenberger, N. I., Lehman, B. J., Hilmert, C. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2008). Neural bases of moderation of cortisol stress responses by psychosocial resources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 197-211. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2008). Thank yous and welcomes: SCAN turns two. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3, 191. pdf

Jarcho, J. M., Chang, L., Berman, S. M., Suyenobu, B., Naliboff, B. D., Lieberman, M. D., Ameen, V. Z., Mandelkern, M. A., & Mayer, E. A. (2008). Neural and psychological predictors of treatment response in irritable bowel syndrome patients with a 5-HT3 receptor antagonist-a pilot study. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 28,344-352. pdf

Tabibnia, G. T., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2008). The lasting effect of words on feelings: Words may facilitate exposure effects to threatening images. Emotion, 8, 307-317. pdf

Tabibnia, G., Satpute, A. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2008). The sunny side of fairness: Preference for fairness activates reward circuitry (and disregarding unfairness activates self-control circuitry). Psychological Science, 19, 339-347. pdf

Eisenberger, N. I., Way, B., Taylor, S. E., & Lieberman, M. D. (2008). MAOA, gender differences and social exclusion: response to Gallardo-Pujol et al. Biological Psychiatry, 63, e11. pdf

Payer, D. E., Lieberman, M. D., Monterosso, J. R., Xu, J., Fong, T. W., & London, E. D. (2008). Differences in cortical activity between methamphetamine-dependent and healthy individuals performing a facial affect matching task. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 93, 93-102. pdf

2007

Tabibnia, G., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Fairness and cooperation are rewarding: evidence from social cognitive neuroscience. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1118, 90-101. PDF

Eisenberger, N. I., Gable, S. L., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). fMRI responses relate to differences in real-world social experience. Emotion, 7, 745-754. PDF

Rameson, L. & Lieberman, M. D. (2007.) Thinking about the self from a social cognitive neuroscience perspective. Psychological Inquiry, 18, 117-122. PDF

Pfeifer, J. H., Lieberman, M. D., & Dapretto, M. (2007). "I know you are but what am I?!": An fMRI study of self-knowledge retrieval during childhood. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1323-1337. PDF

Burklund, L. J., Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007.) The face of rejection: Rejection sensitivity moderates dorsal anterior cingulate activity to disapproving facial expressions. Social Neuroscience, 2, 238-253. PDF

Creswell, J. D., Way, B. M., Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Neural correlates of dispositional mindfulness during affect labeling. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 560-565. PDF

Eisenberger, N. I., Way, B. M., Taylor, S. E., Welch, W. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Understanding genetic risk for aggression: Clues from the brain's response to social exclusion. Biological Psychiatry, 61, 1100-1108. PDF

Eisenberger, N. I., Taylor, S. E., Gable, S. L., Hilmert, C. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Neural pathways link social support to attenuated neuroendocrine stress response. NeuroImage, 35, 1601-1612. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., Eisenberger, N. I., Crockett, M. J., Tom, S. M., Pfeifer, J. H., & Way, B. M. (2007). Putting feelings into words: Affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity to affective stimuli. Psychological Science, 18, 421-428. PDF

Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience: A review of core processes. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 259-89. PDF

Lieberman, M. D. (2007). The X- and C-systems: The neural basis of automatic and controlled social cognition. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkelman (Eds.), Fundamentals of Social Neuroscience (pp. 290-315). New York: Guilford. PDF

Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience. In R.F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press. PDF

2006

Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Neural basis of situational context effects on social perception. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 1, 73-74. PDF

Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: When opposites attract. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 1, 1-2. PDF

Eisenberger, N. I., Jarcho, J. M., Lieberman, M. D., & Naliboff, B. D. (2006). An experimental study of shared sensitivity to physical pain and social rejection. Pain, 126, 132-138. PDF

Satpute, A.B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Integrating automatic and controlled processing into neurocognitive models of social cognition. Brain Research, 1079, 86-97. PDF

Taylor, S. E., Eisenberger, N. I., Saxbe, D., Lehman, B. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Neural bases of regulatory deficits associated with childhood family stress. Biological Psychiatry, 60, 269-301. PDF

2005

Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Principles, processes, and puzzles of social cognition: An introduction for the special issue on social cognitive neuroscience. NeuroImage, 28, 745-756. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2005). The self and social perception: Three kinds of questions in social cognitive neuroscience. In A. Easton & N. Emery (Eds.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotional and Social Behavior (pp. 195-235). Philadelphia: Psychology Press. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2005). A pain by any other name (rejection, exclusion, ostracism), still hurts the same: The role of dorsal anterior cingulate in social and physical pain. In J. T. Cacioppo, P. Visser, & C. Pickett (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: People Thinking About People (pp. 167-187). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., Hariri, A., Jarcho, J. M., Eisenberger, N. I., & Bookheimer, S. Y. (2005). An fMRI investigation of race-related amygdala activity in African-American and Caucasian-American individuals. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 720-2. PDF and Supplementary Note

Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Satpute, A. B. (2005). Personality from a controlled processing perspective: An fMRI study of neuroticism, extraversion, and self-consciousness. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 169-181. PDF

Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Broken hearts and broken bones: The neurocognitive overlap between social pain and physical pain. In K. D. Williams, J. P. Forgas, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), The Social Outcast: Ostracism, Social Exclusion Rejection, and Bullying (pp. 109-127). New York: Cambridge University Press. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., Jarcho, J. M., & Obayashi, J. (2005). Attributional inference across cultures: Similar automatic attributions and different controlled corrections. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 889-901. PDF

2004

Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2004). The neural alarm system: behavior and beyond. Reply to Ullsperger et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 446-447. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2004). Conflict and habit: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to the self. In A. Tesser, J. V. Wood, & D. A. Stapel (Eds.), On Building, Defending and Regulating the Self: A Psychological Perspective (pp. 77-102). New York, NY: Psychology Press. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., Jarcho, J. M., & Satpute, A. B. (2004). Evidence-based and intuition-based self-knowledge: An fMRI study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 421-35. PDF

Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2004). Why rejection hurts: a common neural alarm system for physical and social pain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 294-300. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., Jarcho, J. M., Berman, S., Naliboff, B., Suyenobu, B. Y., Mandelkern, M. & Mayer, E. (2004). The neural correlates of placebo effects: A disruption account. NeuroImage, 22, 447-455. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., Chang, G. Y., Chiao, J., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Knowlton, B. J. (2004). An event-related fMRI study of artificial grammar learning in a balanced chunk strength design. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 427-438. PDF

Iacoboni, M., Lieberman, M. D., Knowlton, B. J., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Moritz, M., Throop, C. J., & Fiske, A. P. (2004). Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting baseline. NeuroImage, 21, 1167-1173. PDF

Gilbert, D. T., Lieberman, M. D., Morewedge, C. K., & Wilson, T. D. (2004). The peculiar longevity of things not so bad. Psychological Science, 15, 14-19. PDF

2000-2003

Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Williams, K. D. (2003). Does rejection hurt? An fMRI study of social exclusion. Science, 302, 290-292. PDF and Animation

Lieberman, M. D., Schreiber, D., & Ochsner, K. N. (2003). Is political thinking like riding a bicycle? How cognitive neuroscience can inform research on political thinking. Political Psychology, 24, 681-704. PDF

Lieberman, M. D. (2003). Reflective and reflexive judgment processes: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. In J. P. Forgas, K. R. Williams, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), Social judgments: Implicit and explicit processes (pp. 44-67). New York: Cambridge University Press. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., Gaunt, R., Gilbert, D. T., & Trope, Y. (2002). Reflection and reflexion: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to attributional inference. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 199-249. PDF

Ochsner, K. N., & Lieberman, M. D. (2001). The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience. American Psychologist, 56, 717-734.Request paper PDF

Ochsner, K. N., & Lieberman, M. D. (2001). The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience. American Psychologist, 56, 717-734.PDF

Lieberman, M. D., Ochsner, K. N., Gilbert, D. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2001). Do amnesics exhibit cognitive dissonance reduction? The role of explicit memory and attention in attitude change. Psychological Science, 12, 135-140. PDF

Lieberman, M. D., & Rosenthal, R. (2001). Why introverts can't always tell who likes them: Multi-tasking and nonverbal decoding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 294-310. PDF

Lieberman, M. D. (2000). Introversion and working memory: Central executive differences. Personality and Individual Differences, 28, 479-486. PDF

Lieberman, M. D. (2000). Intuition: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 109-137. PDF