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Overview

Matthew D. Lieberman is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their recent publications cover a variety of topics within these domains. Notable papers include:

  • "Tools of the Trade Multivoxel pattern analysis in fMRI: a practical introduction for social and affective neuroscientists" (2020), published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "Electrocorticographic evidence of a common neurocognitive sequence for mentalizing about the self and others" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "Seeing minds, matter, and meaning: The CEEing model of pre-reflective subjective construal." (2022), published in Psychological Review
  • "Generativity and Social Well-Being in Older Women: Expectations Regarding Aging Matter" (2020), published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • "Neural reference groups: a synchrony-based classification approach for predicting attitudes using fNIRS" (2020), published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

The frequent coauthors with whom Matthew D. Lieberman collaborates include:

  • Naomi I. Eisenberger
  • Emily B. Falk
  • Ashley L. Binnquist
  • Kevin M. Tan
  • Macrina C Dieffenbach

The venues where they have most often published research include:

  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Psychological Review
  • PLoS ONE
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Neuroscience

Their core research topics reflect an emphasis on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural dynamics and brain function, Mental Health Research Topics, Face Recognition and Perception, Action Observation and Synchronization, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and Cultural Differences and Values.

Best Publications

  • Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion

    Naomi I. Eisenberger;Naomi I. Eisenberger;Matthew D. Lieberman;Matthew D. Lieberman;Kipling D. Williams;Kipling D. Williams

  • Social Cognitive Neuroscience: A Review of Core Processes

    Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Why rejection hurts: a common neural alarm system for physical and social pain

    Naomi I. Eisenberger;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Intuition: a social cognitive neuroscience approach.

    Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Type I and Type II error concerns in fMRI research: re-balancing the scale

    Matthew D. Lieberman;William A. Cunningham

  • Neural correlates of dispositional mindfulness during affect labeling.

    J. David Creswell;Baldwin M. Way;Naomi I. Eisenberger;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Putting Feelings Into Words Affect Labeling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli

    Matthew D. Lieberman;Naomi I. Eisenberger;Molly J. Crockett;Sabrina M. Tom

  • Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

    Matthew D. Lieberman

  • The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience.

    Kevin N. Ochsner;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • The Sunny Side of Fairness Preference for Fairness Activates Reward Circuitry (and Disregarding Unfairness Activates Self-Control Circuitry)

    Golnaz Tabibnia;Ajay B. Satpute;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Reflexion and reflection: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to attributional inference

    Matthew D. Lieberman;Ruth Gaunt;Daniel T. Gilbert;Yaacov Trope

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training reduces loneliness and pro-inflammatory gene expression in older adults: A small randomized controlled trial

    J. David Creswell;Michael R. Irwin;Lisa J. Burklund;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Neural pathways link social support to attenuated neuroendocrine stress responses.

    Naomi I. Eisenberger;Shelley E. Taylor;Shelly L. Gable;Clayton J. Hilmert

  • Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting baseline

    Marco Iacoboni;Matthew D Lieberman;Barbara J Knowlton;Istvan Molnar-Szakacs

  • Attachment figures activate a safety signal-related neural region and reduce pain experience.

    Naomi I. Eisenberger;Sarah L. Master;Tristen K. Inagaki;Shelley E. Taylor

  • Serotonin Modulates Behavioral Reactions to Unfairness

    Molly J. Crockett;Molly J. Crockett;Luke Clark;Luke Clark;Golnaz Tabibnia;Golnaz Tabibnia;Matthew D. Lieberman;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • An fMRI investigation of race-related amygdala activity in African-American and Caucasian-American individuals

    Matthew D Lieberman;Ahmad Hariri;Johanna M Jarcho;Naomi I Eisenberger

  • An experimental study of shared sensitivity to physical pain and social rejection

    Naomi I. Eisenberger;Johanna M. Jarcho;Matthew D. Lieberman;Bruce D. Naliboff

  • Do Amnesics Exhibit Cognitive Dissonance Reduction? The Role of Explicit Memory and Attention in Attitude Change

    Matthew D. Lieberman;Kevin N. Ochsner;Daniel T. Gilbert;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Integrating automatic and controlled processes into neurocognitive models of social cognition

    Ajay B. Satpute;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Craving love? Enduring grief activates brain's reward center

    Mary Frances O'Connor;David K. Wellisch;Annette L. Stanton;Annette L. Stanton;Naomi I. Eisenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Naomi I. Eisenberger
Naomi I. Eisenberger University of California, Los Angeles
Emily B. Falk
Emily B. Falk University of Pennsylvania
Elliot T. Berkman
Elliot T. Berkman University of Oregon
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew J. Fuligni
Andrew J. Fuligni University of California, Los Angeles
Shelley E. Taylor
Shelley E. Taylor University of California, Los Angeles
Eva H. Telzer
Eva H. Telzer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adriana Galván
Adriana Galván University of California, Los Angeles
Darby E. Saxbe
Darby E. Saxbe University of Southern California
Jennifer H. Pfeifer
Jennifer H. Pfeifer University of Oregon

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