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In Press

Tabak, B. A., Young, K. S., Torre, J. B., Way, B. M., Burklund, L. J., Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (in press). Preliminary evidence that CD38 moderates the association of neuroticism on amygdala-subgenual cingulate connectivity. Frontiers in Neuroscience. pdf

Moieni, M., Irwin, M.R., Seeman, T.E., Robles, T.F., Lieberman, M.D., Breen, E.C., Okimoto, S., Lengacher, C., Arevalo, J.M.G., Olmstead, R., Cole, S.W., & Eisenberger. N.I. (in press). Feeling needed: Effects of a randomized generativity intervention on well-being and inflammation in older women. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. pdf

2019

Tan, K. M., Burklund, L. J., Craske, M. G., Lieberman, M. D. Posttraumatic stress disorder and the social brain: Affect‐related disruption of the default and mirror networks. Depression & Anxiety,1-14. pdf

Meyer, M. L., Davachi, L., Ochsner, K. N., & Lieberman, M. D. (2019). Evidence that default network connectivity during rest consolidates social information. Cerebral Cortex, 29, 1910-1920.pdf

Tabak, B. A., Teed, A., Castle, E., Dutcher, J. M., Meyer, M. L., Bryan, R., Irwin, M. R., Lieberman, M.D., Eisenberger, N. I., & (2019). Null results of oxytocin and vasopressin administration across a range of social cognitive and behavioral paradigms: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 124-132. pdf

Burns, S. M., Barnes, L. N., McCulloh, Dagher, M. M., Falk, E. B., Storey, J. D., & Lieberman, M. D. (2019). Making social neuroscience less WEIRD: Using fNIRS to measure neural signatures of persuasive influence in a Middle East participant sample. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116 , e1-e11. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2019). Boo! The consciousness problem in emotion. Cognition & Emotion (Invited piece for 30th anniversary issue)33, 24-30.pdf

Lieberman, M. D., Straccia, M. A., Meyer, M. L., Du, M. & Tan, K. M. (2019). Social, self, (situational), and affective processes in medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC): Causal, multivariate, and reverse inference evidence. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 99, 311-328. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2019). Affect labeling in the age of social media. Nature Human Behavior Nature Human Behavior, 3, 20-21.pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (in press). SCAN gears up for high school. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14, 1-2. pdf

Brown, L. A., Young, K. S., Goldin, P. R., Torre, J. B., Burklund, L. J., Davies, C. D., Niles, A. N., Lieberman, M. D., Saxbe, D. E., & Craske, M. G. (2019). Self-referential processing during observation of a speech performance task in social anxiety disorder from pre- to post-treatment: Evidence of disrupted neural activity. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 284, 13-20. pdf

Young, K. S., LeBeau, R. T., Niles, A. N., Hsu, K. J., Burklund, L. J., Mesri, B., Saxbe, D., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2019). Neural connectivity predictors of treatment response for social anxiety disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders , 242, 105-110. pdf

2018

Burns, S. M., Barnes, L., Katzman, P. L., Ames, D. L., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2018). A functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) replication of the sunscreen persuasion paradigm. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience , 13, 628-636. pdf

Krol, S. A., Meyer, M. L., Lieberman, M. D., & Bartz, J. A. (2018). Social working memory predicts social network size in humans. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology , 4, 387-399. pdf

Welborn, B. L. & Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Disconfirmation modulates the neural correlates of the false consensus effect: A parametric modulation approach. Neuropsychologia , 121, 1-10. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Searching for implicit emotion regulation. In R. Davidson, A. Shackman, A. Fox & R. Lapate (Eds) The nature of emotion (pp. 69-72) (2nd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf

Torre, J. B. & Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Putting feelings into words: Affect labeling as implicit emotion regulation. Emotion Review. Emotion Review, 10, 116-124. pdf

Kang, Y., Cooper, N., Pandey, P., Scholz, C., O’Donnell, M. B., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., Strecher, V. J., Dal Cin, S., Konrath, S., Polk, T. A., Resnicow, K., An, L., & Falk, E. B. (2018). Effects of self-transcendence on neural responses to persuasive messages and health behavior change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 9974-9979. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Birds of a feather synchronize together. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 371-372. pdf

Meyer, M. L* & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). Why people are always thinking about themselves: Medial prefrontal cortex activity during rest primes self-referential processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 714-721. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Naïve realism. In J. Brockman (Ed.), This idea is brilliant (pp. 99-102). New York: Harper.

2017

Memarian, N., Torre, J. B., Haltom, K. E., Stanton, A. L., & Lieberman, M. D. (2017). Neural activity during affect labeling predicts expressive writing effects on well-being: GLM and SVM approaches. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,12 , 1437-1447. pdf

Welborn, B. L., Gunter, B. C., Vezich, I. S., & Lieberman, M. D. (2017). Neural correlates of the false consensus effect: Evidence for motivated projection and regulatory restraint. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29, 708-717. pdf

Vezich, I. S., Gunter, B. C., & Lieberman, M. D. (2017). Women's responses to stereotypical media portrayals: An fMRI study of sexualized and domestic images of women. Journal of Consumer Behavior, 16 , 322-331. pdf

Kang, Y., Brook O'Donnell, M., Strecher, V. J., Taylor, S. E., Lieberman, M. D., & Falk, E. B. (2017). The association between prioritizing self-transcendent values and neural responses to threatening health messages. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79 , 379-387. pdf

Vezich, I. S., Gunter, B. C., & Lieberman, M. D. (2017). The mere green effect: An fMRI study of pro-environmental advertisements. Social Neuroscience, 12, 400-408. pdf

Young, K. S., Burklund, L. J., Torre, J., Saxbe, D., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2017). Treatment for social anxiety disorder alters functional connectivity in emotion regulation neural circuitry. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 261, 44-51. pdf

Burklund, L. J., Torre, J. B., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., & Craske, M. G. (2017). Neural responses to social threat and predictors of cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in social anxiety disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 261, 52-64.pdf

Goldenberg, D., Telzer, E. H., Lieberman, M. D., Fuligni, A. J., & Galvan, A. (2017). Greater response variability in adolescents is associated with increased white matter development. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 436-444.pdf

Vezich, I. S., Katzman, P. L., Ames, D. L., Falk, E. B. & Lieberman, M. D. (2017). Modulating the neural bases of persuasion: Why/how, gain/loss, and users/non-users. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 12, 283-297.pdf

Davies, C. D., Young, K., Torre, J., Burklund, L., Goldin, P., Brown, L., Niles, A., Lieberman, M. D., Craske, M. G. (2017). Altered time course of amygdala activation during speech anticipation in social anxiety disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 209, 23-29. pdf

Pfeifer, J. H., Mahy, C. E. V., Merchant, J. S., Chen, C., Masten, C. L., Fuligni, A. J., Lieberman, M. D., Lessard, J., Dong, Q., & Chen, C. (2017). Neural systems for reflected and direct self-appraisals in Chinese young adults: Exploring the role of temporal-parietal junction. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 23, 45-58. pdf

2016

Lieberman, M. D., Burns, S. M., Torre, J. B., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2016). Reply to Wager et al: Pain and the dACC: The importance of hit rate-adjusted effects and posterior probabilities with fair priors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 113, E2476-E2479. pdf

Cascio, C. N., O'Donnell, M. B., Tinney, F. J., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., Strecher, V. J., & Falk, E. B. (2016). Self-affirmation activates brain systems associated with self-related processing and reward and is reinforced by future orientation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. pdf

Meyer, M. L. & Lieberman, M. D. (2016). Social working memory training improves perspective-taking accuracy. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. pdf

Tabak, B. A., Meyer, M. L., Dutcher, J. M., Castle, E., Irwin, M. R., Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2016). Oxytocin, but not vasopressin, impairs social cognitive ability among individuals with higher levels of social anxiety: A randomized control trial. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 1272-1279. pdf

Qu, Y., Fuligni, A. J., Galvan, A., Lieberman, M. D., & Telzer, E. H. (2016). Links between parental depression and longitudinal changes in youths' neural sensitivity to reward. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 1262-1271. pdf

Vezich, S., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2016). Persuasion neuroscience: New potential to test dual process theories. In E. Harmon-Jones & M. Inzlicht (Eds.) Social neuroscience: Biological approaches to social psychology. New York: Psychological Press. pdf

Welborn, B. L., Lieberman, M. D., Goldenberg, D., Fuligni, A. J., Galvan, A., & Telzer, E. H. (2016). Neural mechanisms of social influence in adolescents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 100-109. pdf

Niles, A. N., Haltom, K. E. Byrne, Lieberman, M. D., Hur, C., & Stanton, A. L. (2016). Writing content predicts benefits from written expressive disclosure: Evidence for repeated exposure and self-affirmation. Cognitive & Emotion, 30, 258-274. pdf

2015

Lieberman, M. D. & Eisenberger, N. I. (2015). The dorsal anterior cingulate is selective for pain: Results from large-scale fMRI reverse inference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 12, 15250-15255. pdf Blog post link Blog summary link

Tompson, S., Lieberman, M. D., & Falk, E. B. (2015). Grounding the neuroscience of behavior change in the sociocultural context. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 5, 58-63. pdf

Meyer, M. L., Taylor, S. E., & Lieberman, M. D. (2015). Social working memory and its distinctive link to social cognitive ability: An fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 1338-1347. pdf

Lieberman, M. D., Rock, D., Halvorson, H. G., & Cox, C. (2015). Breaking bias updated: The SEEDSTM model. Neuroleadership Journal, 6, 4-18. pdf

Tsai, W., Lau, A. S., Niles, A. N., Coello, J., Lieberman, M. D., Ko, A. C., Hur, C., & Stanton, A. L. (2015). Ethnicity moderates the outcomes of self-enhancement and self-improvement themes in expressive writing. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21, 584-592. pdf

Spunt, R. P., Meyer, M. L., & Lieberman, M. D. (2015). The default mode of human brain function primes the intentional stance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 1116-1124. pdf

Falk, E. B., O'Donnell, M. B., Cascio, C. N., Tinney, F., Kang, Y., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., An, L., Resnicow, K., & Strecher, V. J. (2015). Self-affirmation alters the brain's response to health messages and subsequent behavior change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 1977-1982. pdf

Morelli, S. A., Lieberman, M. D., & Zaki, J. (2015). The emerging study of positive empathy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9, 57-58. pdf

Meyer, M. L., Masten, C. L., Ma, Y., Wang, C., Shi, Z., Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Han, S. (2015). Differential neural activation to friends and strangers links interdependence to empathy. Culture and Brain, 3, 21-38. pdf

Burklund, L. J., Craske, M. G., Tayler, S. E., & Lieberman, M. D. (2015). Altered emotion regulation capacity in social phobia as a function of comorbidity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10 , 199-208. pdf

Welborn, B. L. & Lieberman, M. D. (2015). Person-specific Theory of Mind in medial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 1-12. . pdf

Niles, A. N., Craske, M. G., Lieberman, M. D., & Hur, C. (2015). Affect labeling enhances exposure effectiveness for public speaking anxiety. Behavior Research and Therapy, 68, 27-35. pdf

Telzer, E. H., Fuligni, A. J., Lieberman, M. D., Miernicki, M. & Galvan, A. (2015). The quality of adolescents' peer relationships modulates neural sensitivity to risk taking. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 389-398. pdf

Telzer, E.H., Goldenberg, D., Fuligni, A.J., Lieberman, M.D, & Galvan, A. (2015). Sleep variability in adolescence is associated with altered brain development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 16-22. pdf

O'Donnell, M. B., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2015). Social in, social out: How the brain responds to social language with more social language. Communication Monographs, 82, 31-63. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2015). Social cognitive neuroscience section introduction. In Toga, A. (Ed.) Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference. New York: Academic Press. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2015). Thinking from the inside or the outside? Edge.org Edge.com. pdf

Tabak, B. A., Meyer, M. L., Castle, E., Dutcher, J. M., Irwin, M. R., Han, J. H., Lieberman, M. D., Eisenberger, N. I. (2015). Vasopressin, but not oxytocin, increases empathic concern among individuals who received higher levels of paternal warmth: A randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 51, 253-261. pdf

2014

Niles, A. N., Burklund, L. J., Arch, J. J., Lieberman, M. D., Saxbe, D. & Craske, M. G. (2014). Cognitive mediators of treatment for social anxiety disorder: Comparing acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Behavior Therapy, 45, 664-677. pdf

Craske, M. G., Niles, A. N., Burklund, L. J., Wolitzky-Taylor, K. B., Plumb, J. C., Arch, J. J., Saxbe, D. E. & Lieberman, M. D. (2014) Randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy for social anxiety disorder: Outcomes and moderators. Journal of Consulting and Clin Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 821034-1048. pdf

Telzer, E. H., Fuligni, A. J., Lieberman, M. D., & Galvan, A. (2014). Neural sensitivity to eudaimonic and hedonic rewards differentially predict adolescent depressive symptoms over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 6600-6605. pdf

Berkman, E. T., Cunningham, W. A., & Lieberman, M. D. (2014). Research methods in social and affective neuroscience. In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd (Eds.) Handbook of research methods in personality and social psychology (2nd ed)(pp. 123-158). New York: Cambridge University Press. pdf

Morelli, S. A., Rameson, L. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2014). The neural components of empathy: Predicting daily prosocial behavior. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 39-47. pdf

Spunt, R. P. & Lieberman, M. D. (2014). Automaticity, control, and the social brain. In J. Sherman, B. Gawronski, & Y. Trope (Eds.) Dual process theories of the social mind. New York: Guilford. pdf

Niles, A. N., Haltom, K. E. B., Mulvenna, C., Lieberman, M. D., Stanton, A. L. (2014). Randomized controlled trial of expressive writing for psychological and physical health: The moderating role of emotional expressivity. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 27,1-17. pdf

Burklund, L. J., Creswell, J. D., Irwin, M., & Lieberman, M. D. (2014). The common and distinct neural bases of affect labeling and reappraisal in healthy adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:221. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00221 pdf

Lieberman, M. D., Rock, D., & Cox, C. L. (2014). Breaking bias. Neuroleadership, 5, 1-19. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2014). Learning from others. Chronicle of Higher Education, 60, B4-B5. pdf

Telzer, E. H., Qu, Y., Goldenberg, D., Fuligni, A. J., Galvan, A. & Lieberman, M. D. (2014). Adolescents; emotional competence is associated with parents' neural sensitivity to emotions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1-12. pdf

Dumontheil, I., Jensen, S. K. G., Wood, N. W., Meyer, M. L., Lieberman, M. D. & Blakemore, S.-J. (2014). Preliminary investigation of the influence of dopamine regulating genes on social working memory. Social Neuroscience, 9, 437-451. pdf

2013

Lieberman, M. D. (Oct 2013). Social: Why our brains are wired to connect. New York: Crown. webpage

Falk, E. B., Morelli, S. A., Welbourn, B. L., Dambacher, K., & Lieberman, M. D. (2013). Creating buzz: The neural correlates of effective message propagation.Psychologicla Science, 24, 1234-1242. pdf

Niles, A. N., Mesri, B., Burklund, L. J., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2013). Attentional bias and emotional reactivity as predictors and moderators of behavioral treatment for social phobia.Behavioral Research and Therapy, 51, 669-679. pdf

Torrisi, S. J., Lieberman, M. D., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Altshler, L. L. (2013). Advancing understanding of affect labeling with dynamic causal modeling. Neuroimage, 82, 481-488. pdf

Goldenberg, D., Telzer, E. H., Lieberman, M. D., Fuligni, A., & Galvan, A. (2013). Neural mechanisms of impulse control in sexually risky adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 23-29. pdf

Spunt, R. P. & Lieberman, M. D. (2013). The busy social brain: Evidence for automaticity and control in the neural systems supporting social cognition and action understanding. Psychological Science, 24, 80-86. pdf

Morelli, S. A. & Lieberman, M. D. (2013). The role of automaticity and attention in neural processes underlying empathy for happiness, sadness, and anxiety. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 1. Doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00160. pdf

Torrisi, S. J., Lieberman, M. D., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Altshler, L. L. (2013). Advancing understanding of affect labeling with dynamic causal modeling. Neuroimage, 82, 481-488. pdf

Pfeifer, J. H., Kahn, L. E., Merchant, J. S., Peake, S. A., Veroude, K., Masten, C. L., Lieberman, M. D., Mazziotta, J. C., & Dapretto, M. (2013). Longitudinal change in the neural bases of adolescent social self-evaluations: Effects of age and pubertal development. Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 7415-7419. pdf

Crockett, M. J., Apergis-Schoute, A. M., Hermann, B., Lieberman, M. D., Muller, U., Robbins, T. W., & Clark, L. (2013). Serotonin modulates striatal responses to fairness and retaliation in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 3505-3513. pdf

Telzer, E. H., Fuligni, A. J., Lieberman, M. D., & Galvan, A. (2013) The effects of poor quality sleep on brain function and risk taking in adolescence. NeuroImage, 71, 275-283. pdf

Dickenson, J., Berkman, E. T., Arch, J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2013). Neural and daily correlates of a brief mindfulness induction. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 40-47. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 40-47. pdf

Townsend, J. D., Torrisi, S. J., Lieberman, M. D., Sugar, C. A., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Altshuler, L. L. (2013). Frontal-amygdala connectivity alterations during emotion down-regulation in bipolar I disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 73, 127-135. pdf

Telzer, E. H., Fuligni, A. J., Lieberman, M. D., & Galvan, A. (2013). Meaningful family relationships: Neurocognitive buffers of adolescent risk taking. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25374-387. pdf

Falk, E. B. & Lieberman, M. D. (2013). The neural bases of attitudes, evaluations, and behavior change. In F. Krueger & J. Grafman (Eds.). The neural basis of human belief systems (pp. 71-94). New York: Psychology Press. pdf

Cohen, J. R., Berkman, E. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2013). Intentional and incidental self-control in ventrolateral PFC. In D. T. Stuss & R. T. Knight (Eds.) Principles of Frontal Lobe Function (2nd ed) (pp. 417-440), New York: Oxford University Press. pdf

Telzer, E.H., Fuligni, A.J., Lieberman, M.D, & Galvan, A. (2013). Ventral striatum activation to prosocial rewards predicts longitudinal declines in adolescent risk taking. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 45-52.. pdf

2012

Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Education and the social brain. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 1 3-9. pdf

Kircanski, K., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2012). Feelings into words: Contributions of language to exposure therapy. Psychological Science, 23, 1086-1091. pdf

Spunt, R. P., Lieberman, M. D., Cohen, J. R., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). The phenomenology of error processing: The dorsal anterior cingulate response to stop-signal errors tracks reports of negative affect. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 1753-1765. pdf

Falk, E. B., Berkman, E. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). From neural responses to population behavior: Neural focus group predicts population level media effects. Psychological Science, 23, 439-445. pdf & supplemtal materials

Meyer, M. L. & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Social working memory: Neurocognitive networks and directions for future research. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 571. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00571. pdf

Falk, E. B., O'Donnell, M. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Getting the word out: Neural correlates of enthusiastic message propagation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00313 pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2012) Diaries: A healthy choice. New York Times, Room for Debate, November 25. pdf

Creswell, J. D., Irwin, M. R., Burklund, L. J., Lieberman, M. D., Arevalo, J. M. G., Ma, J., Breen, E. C., & Cole, S. W. (2012). Mindfulness-based stress reduction training reduces loneliness and pro-inflammatory gene expression in older adults: A small randomized controlled trial. Behavior, Brain, & Immunity, 26, 1095-1101. pdf

Berkman, E. T., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Interactive effects of three core goal pursuit processes on brain control systems: Goal maintenance, performance monitoring, and response inhibition. PLoS ONE, 7, e40334. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2012). A geographical history of social cognitive neuroscience. Neuroimage (invited paper, 20th anniversary issue), 61, 432-436. pdf

Poore, J. C., Pfeifer, J. H., Berkman, E. T., Inagaki, T. K., Welborn, B. L., Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Prediction-error in the context of real social relationships modulates reward system activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 218. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00218 pdf

Payer, D. E., Baicy, K., Lieberman, M. D., & London, E. D. (2012). Overlapping neural substrates between intentional and incidental down-regulation of negative emotions. Emotion, 2, 229-235. pdf

Muscatell, K. A., Morelli, S. A., Falk, E. B., Way, B. M., Pfeifer, J. H., Galinsky, A. D., Lieberman, M. D., Dapretto, M., & Eisenberger, N. A. (2012). Social status modulates neural activity in the mentalizing network. Neuroimage, 60, 1771-1777. pdf

Spunt, R. P. & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Dissociating modality-specific and supramodal neural systems for action understanding. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 3575-3583. pdf

Meyer, M. L., Spunt, R. P., Berkman, E. T., Taylor, S. E., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Evidence for social working memory from a parametric functional MRI study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 1883-1888. pdf

Falk, E. B., Spunt, R. P., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Ascribing beliefs to ingroup and outgroup political candidates: Neural correlates of perspective taking, issue importance, and days until the election. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 367, 731-743. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Self-knowledge: From philosophy to neuroscience to psychology. S. Vazire & T. D. Wilson (Eds.) Handbook of Self-knowledge (pp. 63-76). New York: Guilford. pdf

Gee, D. G., Karlsgodt, K. H., Bearden, C. E., Lieberman, M. D., Belger, A., Perkins, D. O., Olvet, D. M., Cornblatt, B. A., Constable, T., Woods, S. W., Addington, J., Cadenhead, K. S., McGlashan, T. H., Seidman, L. J., Tsuang, M. T., Walker, E. F., & Cannon, T. D. (2012). Altered age-related trajectories of amygdala-prefrontal circuitry in adolescents at clinical high risk for psychosis: A preliminary study. Schizophrenia Research, 134, 1-9. pdf

Spunt, R. P. & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). An integrative model of the neural systems supporting the comprehension of observed emotional behavior. Neuroimage, 59, 3050-3059. pdf

Burklund, L. J. & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Advances in functional neuroimaging of psychopathology. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 18, 333-337. pdf

Masten, C. L., Telzer, E. H., Fuligni, A. J., LIeberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). Time spent with friends in adolescence relates to less neural sensitivity to later peer rejection. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7, 106-114. pdf

Rameson, L. T., Morelli, S. A., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). The neural correlates of empathy: Experience, automaticity, and prosocial behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 235-245. pdf

Foland-Ross, L. C., Bookheimer, S. Y., Lieberman, M. D., Sugar, C. A., Townsend, J., Fischer, J., Torrisi, S., Penfold, C., Madsen, S. K., Thompson, P. M. & Altshuler, L. (2012). Normal amygala activation but deficient ventrolateral prefrontal activation in adults with bipolar disorder during euthymia. Neuroimage, 59, 738-744. pdf

Jimenez, A. M., Gee, D. G., Cannon, T. D. & Lieberman, M. D. (2013) The social cognitive brain: A review of key individual difference parameters with relevance to schizophrenia. In D. L. Roberts & D. L. Penn (Eds.) Social cognition in schizophrenia (pp. 93-119). New York: Oxford University Press. pdf

2011

Jarcho, J. M., Berkman, E. T. & Lieberman, M. D. (2011). The neural basis of rationalization: Cognitive dissonance reduction during decision-making. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 460-467. Link to abstract/paper

Eisenberger, N.I., Master, S.L., Inagaki, T.K., Taylor, S.E., Shirinyan, D., Lieberman, M.D., & Naliboff, B. (2011). Attachment figures activate a safety signal-related neural region and reduce pain experience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 11721-11726. pdf

Telzer, E. H., Masten, C. L., Berkman, E. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2011). Neural regions associated with self control and mentalizing are recruited during prosocial behaviors towards the family. NeuroImage, 58, 242-249. pdf

Lieberman, M. D., Inagaki, T. K., Tabibnia, G., & Crockett, M. J. (2011). Subjective responses to emotional stimuli during labeling, reappraisal, and distraction. Emotion, 11, 468-480. pdf

Berkman, E. T., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2011). In the trenches of real-world self-control: Neural correlates of breaking the link between craving and smoking. Psychological Science, 22, 498-506 . pdf

Falk, E. B., Berkman, E. T., Whalen, D., & LIeberman, M. D. (2011). Neural activity during health messaging predicts reductions in smoking above and beyond self-report. Health Psychology,30, 177-185. pdf

Berkman, E.T. & Lieberman, M.D. (2011). What's outside the black box?: The status of behavioral outcomes in neuroscience research. Psychological Inquiry, 22, 100-107. pdf

Meyer, M. L., Berkman, E. T., Karremans, J. C., & Lieberman, M. D. (2011). Incidental regulation of attraction: The neural basis of the derogation of attractive alternatives in romantic relationships. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 490-505. pdf

Payer, D. E., Lieberman, M. D., & London, E. D. (2011). Neural correlates of affect processing and aggression in methamphetamine dependence. Archives of General Psychiatry, 68, 271-282. pdf

Berkman, E.T., Dickenson, J., Falk, E.B., & Lieberman, M.D. (2011). Using SMS text messaging to assess moderators of smoking reduction: Validating a new tool for ecological measurement of health behaviors. Health Psychology, 30, 186-194. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2011). SCAN heads to kindergarten. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 1. pdf

Spunt, R. P., Satpute, A. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2011). Identifying the what, why, and how of an observed action: An fMRI study of mentalizing and mechanizing during action observation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 63-74. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2011). 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

Foland-Ross, L. C., Altshuler, L. L., Bookheimer, S. Y., Lieberman, M. D., Townsend, J., et al. (2010) Amygdala reactivity in healthy adults is correlated with prefrontal cortical thickness. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 16673-16678. pdf

Spunt, R. P., Falk, E., & Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Dissociable neural systems support retrieval of "how" and "why" action knowledge. Psychological Science, 21, 1593-1598. pdf

Crockett, M. J., Clark, L., Lieberman, M. D., Tabibnia, G., & Robbins, T. W. (2010). Impulsive choice and altruistic punishment are correlated and increase in tandem with serotonin depletion. Emotion, 10, 855-862. pdf

Telzer, E. H., Masten, C. L, Berkman, E. T., Lieberman, M. D., & Fuligni, A. J. (2010). Gaining while giving: An fMRI study of the rewards of family assistance among White and Latino youth. Social Neuroscience, 5508-516. pdf

Way, B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Is there a genetic contribution to cultural differences? Collectivism, individualism, and genetic markers of social sensitivity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5, 203-211. Link to abstract/paper

Falk, E. B., Berkman, E. T., Mann, T., Harrison, B, & Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Predicting persuasion-induced behavior change from the brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 8421-8424. article pdf and supplemental pdf

Falk, E., Rameson, L., Berkman, E., Liao, B., Kang, Y., Inagaki, T. K., & Lieberman, M. (2010). The neural corelates of persuasion: A common network across cultures and media. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2447-2459. pdf

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. pdf

Berkman, E.T., & Lieberman, M.D. (2010). Approaching the bad and avoiding the good: Lateral prefrontal cortical asymmetry distinguishes between action and valence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1970-1979. pdf

Way, B. M., Creswell, J. D., Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Dispositional mindfulness and depressive symptomatology: Correlations with limbic and self-referential neural activity during rest. Emotion, 10 12-24. pdf

Rameson, L., Satpute, A., & Lieberman, M. (2010). The neural corelates of implicit and explicit self-relevant processing. NeuroImage, 50, 701-708. pdf

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 and Affective Neuroscience, 4, 423-428. pdf

Lieberman, M. D. (2009). The Brains' Braking System (and how to 'use your words' to tap into it). Neuroleadership, 2, 9-14. 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. 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. 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