Publications

2012

• 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.  & supplemtal materials
• Lieberman, M. D. (2012). A geographical history of social cognitive neuroscience. Neuroimage (invited paper, 20th anniversary issue),61, 432-436.
• 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.
• 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.
• Spunt, R. P. & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Dissociating modality-specific and supramodal neural systems for action understanding.Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 3575-3583.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Burklund, L. J. & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Advances in functional neuroimaging of psychopathology. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 18, 333-337.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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

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

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.
• Lieberman, M. D. (2009). The Brains' Braking System (and how to 'use your words' to tap into it). Neuroleadership, 2, 9-14.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2009). Pains and pleasures of social life. Science, 323, 890-891.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Rameson, L. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Empathy: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

2008

• Lieberman, M. D. & Eisenberger, N. I. (2008). The pains and pleasures of social life: A social cognitive neuroscience approach.Neuroleadership.
• 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.
• Crockett, M. J., Clark, L., Tabibnia, G., Lieberman, M. D., & Robbins, T. W. (2008). Serotonin modulates behavioral reactions to unfairness. Science, 320, 1739.  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.
• Lieberman, M. D. (2008). Thank yous and welcomes: SCAN turns two. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3, 191.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Eisenberger, N. I., Gable, S. L., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). fMRI responses relate to differences in real-world social experience. Emotion, 7, 745-754.
• Rameson, L. & Lieberman, M. D. (2007.) Thinking about the self from a social cognitive neuroscience perspective. Psychological Inquiry, 18, 117-122.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience: A review of core processes. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 259-89.
• 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.
• Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience. In R.F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology,Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press.

2006

• Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Neural basis of situational context effects on social perception. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 1, 73-74.
• Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: When opposites attract. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 1, 1-2.
• 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.
• Satpute, A.B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Integrating automatic and controlled processing into neurocognitive models of social cognition. Brain Research, 1079, 86-97.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• Satpute, A. B., Sellner, D., Waldman, M. D., Tabibnia, G., Holyoak, K. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). An fMRI study of causal judgments.European Journal of Neuroscience, 22, 1233-1238.
• 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.
• 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.  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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.  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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ochsner, K. N., & Lieberman, M. D. (2001). The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience. American Psychologist, 56, 717-734.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lieberman, M. D. (2000). Introversion and working memory: Central executive differences. Personality and Individual Differences, 28,479-486.
• Lieberman, M. D. (2000). Intuition: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 109-137.