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| MATTHEW LIEBERMANSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Why introverts can't always tell who likes them: multitasking and nonverbal decodingM D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 80:294-310. 2001..42) but not with storage capacity (r = .04). These results are discussed in terms of arousal theories of extraversion and the role of catecholamines (dopamine and norepinephrine) in prefrontal function...- Putting feelings into words: affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuliMatthew D Lieberman
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Sci 18:421-8. 2007..These results suggest that affect labeling may diminish emotional reactivity along a pathway from RVLPFC to MPFC to the amygdala... - Principles, processes, and puzzles of social cognition: an introduction for the special issue on social cognitive neuroscienceMatthew D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Neuroimage 28:745-56. 2005.... - Attributional inference across cultures: similar automatic attributions and different controlled correctionsMatthew D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 90095 1563, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:889-901. 2005..Studies 4 and 5 examined and ruled out alternative accounts. Results are discussed in terms of a situational causality heuristic present in EA individuals... - An fMRI investigation of race-related amygdala activity in African-American and Caucasian-American individualsMatthew D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:720-2. 2005..Additionally, verbal encoding of African-American targets produced significantly less amygdala activity than perceptual encoding of African-American targets... - Evidence-based and intuition-based self-knowledge: an FMRI studyMatthew D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:421-35. 2004..The affective and slow-changing nature of intuition-based self-knowledge is discussed... - Social cognitive neuroscience: a review of core processesMatthew D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 58:259-89. 2007.... - The neural correlates of placebo effects: a disruption accountMatthew D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Franz Hall, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Neuroimage 22:447-55. 2004..This is the first study to identify a neural pathway from a region of the brain associated with placebos and affective thought to a region closely linked to the placebo-related outcome of diminished pain unpleasantness... - An event-related fMRI study of artificial grammar learning in a balanced chunk strength designMatthew D Lieberman
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:427-38. 2004..Additionally, functional connectivity analyses revealed caudate and medial temporal lobe activations to be strongly negatively correlated (r= -.88) with one another during the performance of this task... 
Subjective responses to emotional stimuli during labeling, reappraisal, and distractionMatthew D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Emotion 11:468-80. 2011..This suggests that affect labeling tends to dampen affective responses in general, rather than specifically alleviating negative affect...- Type I and Type II error concerns in fMRI research: re-balancing the scaleMatthew D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 4:423-8. 2009..From this perspective, Type I errors are self-erasing because they will not replicate, thus allowing for more lenient thresholding to avoid Type II errors... - Do amnesics exhibit cognitive dissonance reduction? The role of explicit memory and attention in attitude changeM D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Sci 12:135-40. 2001..Using a free-choice paradigm, we found that both amnesics and normal participants under cognitive load showed as much attitude change as did control participants... - Neural correlates of direct and reflected self-appraisals in adolescents and adults: when social perspective-taking informs self-perceptionJennifer H Pfeifer
Department of Psychology, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1227, USA
Child Dev 80:1016-38. 2009..Activity in the medial fronto-parietal network was also enhanced when adolescents took the perspective of someone more relevant to a given domain... - The neural correlates of persuasion: a common network across cultures and mediaEmily B Falk
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 22:2447-59. 2010.... - Differences in cortical activity between methamphetamine-dependent and healthy individuals performing a facial affect matching taskDoris E Payer
Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 93:93-102. 2008..Together, the results point to cortical abnormalities that could underlie the socially inappropriate behaviors often shown by individuals who abuse MA... - "I know you are but what am I?!": neural bases of self- and social knowledge retrieval in children and adultsJennifer H Pfeifer
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 19:1323-37. 2007..Only children activated the MPFC significantly above baseline during self-knowledge retrieval. Implications for social cognitive development and the processing functions performed by the MPFC are discussed... - Craving love? Enduring grief activates brain's reward centerMary Frances O'Connor
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Neuroimage 42:969-72. 2008..This study supports the hypothesis that attachment activates reward pathways. For those with CG, reminders of the deceased still activate neural reward activity, which may interfere with adapting to the loss in the present... - Neural correlates of affect processing and aggression in methamphetamine dependenceDoris E Payer
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:271-82. 2011..Methamphetamine abuse is associated with high rates of aggression but few studies have addressed the contributing neurobiological factors... 
The lasting effect of words on feelings: words may facilitate exposure effects to threatening imagesGolnaz Tabibnia
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Emotion 8:307-17. 2008..Thus, affective labels may help dampen emotional reactivity in both the short and long terms. Implications for exposure therapy and translational studies are discussed...- Dissociable neural systems support retrieval of how and why action knowledgeRobert P Spunt
Department of Psychology, 1285 Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Sci 21:1593-8. 2010.... - Neural bases of moderation of cortisol stress responses by psychosocial resourcesShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:197-211. 2008..Results suggest that psychosocial resources are associated with lower cortisol responses to stress by means of enhanced inhibition of threat responses during threat regulation, rather than by decreased sensitivity to threat... - Inhibitory spillover: intentional motor inhibition produces incidental limbic inhibition via right inferior frontal cortexElliot T Berkman
Psychology Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Neuroimage 47:705-12. 2009..Given the absence of intentional affect regulation, these results suggest that intentional inhibition of a motor response dampens the amygdala activation coincident with affective stimuli to the extent that rIFC activation is higher... - Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting baselineMarco Iacoboni
UCLA Brain Mapping Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Neuroimage 21:1167-73. 2004.... - Is there a genetic contribution to cultural differences? Collectivism, individualism and genetic markers of social sensitivityBaldwin M Way
Department of Psychology, 1285 Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:203-11. 2010..These results indicate that genetic variation may interact with ecological and social factors to influence psychocultural differences... - Does rejection hurt? An FMRI study of social exclusionNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Science 302:290-2. 2003..ACC changes mediated the RVPFC-distress correlation, suggesting that RVPFC regulates the distress of social exclusion by disrupting ACC activity... - Dispositional mindfulness and depressive symptomatology: correlations with limbic and self-referential neural activity during restBaldwin M Way
Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Emotion 10:12-24. 2010.... - The face of rejection: rejection sensitivity moderates dorsal anterior cingulate activity to disapproving facial expressionsLisa J Burklund
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Soc Neurosci 2:238-53. 2007..Results also suggest that disapproving facial expressions convey a distinct type of threat and should be considered in future studies of socially threatening facial expressions... - The sunny side of fairness: preference for fairness activates reward circuitry (and disregarding unfairness activates self-control circuitry)Golnaz Tabibnia
The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1759, USA
Psychol Sci 19:339-47. 2008..This work provides evidence that fairness is hedonically valued and that tolerating unfair treatment for material gain involves a pattern of activation resembling suppression of negative affect... - An experimental study of shared sensitivity to physical pain and social rejectionNaomi I Eisenberger
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pain 126:132-8. 2006..These results provide additional support for the hypothesis that pain distress and social distress share neurocognitive substrates. Implications for clinical populations are discussed... - Neural responses to emotional stimuli are associated with childhood family stressShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:296-301. 2006..This study examined neural mechanisms underlying these consequences of "risky" families (RF) by exploring neural activity to tasks involving responses to emotional stimuli... - Understanding genetic risk for aggression: clues from the brain's response to social exclusionNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Los Angeles, California 90095 7076, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:1100-8. 2007.... - Neural pathways link social support to attenuated neuroendocrine stress responsesNaomi I Eisenberger
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7076, USA
Neuroimage 35:1601-12. 2007.... - Personality from a controlled processing perspective: an fMRI study of neuroticism, extraversion, and self-consciousnessNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:169-81. 2005..74) than by self-reported neuroticism (r2 = .16), suggesting that neural reactivities may provide a more direct measure of personality than self-reports do... - Neural correlates of dispositional mindfulness during affect labelingJ David Creswell
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychosom Med 69:560-5. 2007..Converging evidence from the mindfulness and neuroscience literature suggests that labeling affect may be one mechanism for these effects... - An fMRI study of causal judgmentsAjay B Satpute
Department of Psychology, 1285 Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Eur J Neurosci 22:1233-8. 2005..These findings indicate that the evaluation of causal relations in semantic memory involves additional neural mechanisms relative to those required to evaluate associative relations... - Fairness and cooperation are rewarding: evidence from social cognitive neuroscienceGolnaz Tabibnia
The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1759, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1118:90-101. 2007..Other neuroimaging studies have similarly shown activation in reward regions in response to cooperative partners or cooperative play. Here, we review these findings and discuss the implications for organizational settings... - Why rejection hurts: a common neural alarm system for physical and social painNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 8:294-300. 2004..We review evidence suggesting that the anterior cingulate cortex plays a key role in the physical-social pain overlap. We also suggest that the physical-social pain circuitry might share components of a broader neural alarm system... - Functional magnetic resonance imaging responses relate to differences in real-world social experienceNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Emotion 7:745-54. 2007..These findings complement previous work showing a dissociation between momentary and retrospective reports of affect and suggest that these processes rely on dissociable neural systems... - Gaining while giving: an fMRI study of the rewards of family assistance among white and Latino youthEva H Telzer
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Soc Neurosci 5:508-18. 2010..These results suggest that family assistance may be guided, in part, by the personal rewards one attains from that assistance, and that this sense of reward may be modulated by cultural influences and prior family experiences... - Integrating automatic and controlled processes into neurocognitive models of social cognitionAjay B Satpute
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Brain Res 1079:86-97. 2006..This framework is considered to be a working model rather than a finished product. Finally, the utility of this model and its application to other social cognitive domains such as Theory of Mind are discussed... - The neural correlates of implicit and explicit self-relevant processingLian T Rameson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Neuroimage 50:701-8. 2010..We suggest that processing self-related material recruits similar neural networks regardless of whether the self-relevance is made explicit or not... - The peculiar longevity of things not so badDaniel T Gilbert
Harvard University, USA
Psychol Sci 15:14-9. 2004..These errors of prediction are discussed as instances of a more general phenomenon known as the region-beta paradox... - Predicting persuasion-induced behavior change from the brainEmily B Falk
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
J Neurosci 30:8421-4. 2010..Additionally, this is the first functional magnetic resonance imaging study to demonstrate that a neural signal can predict complex real world behavior days in advance... - The neural basis of rationalization: cognitive dissonance reduction during decision-makingJohanna M Jarcho
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:460-7. 2011.... - Serotonin modulates behavioral reactions to unfairnessMolly J Crockett
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Science 320:1739. 2008..Our results suggest that 5-HT plays a critical role in regulating emotion during social decision-making...
Research Grants
- ACC in Neuroticism and Social CognitionMATTHEW LIEBERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- Neural Mechanisms Underlying Stress ReactivityMATTHEW LIEBERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2006..Supportive evidence will flesh out the neural mechanisms through which individual differences affect biological responses to stress and elucidate the risk factors for stress- related mental and physical health problems. ..
- Affect Labeling Expressive Writing and Emotion RegulationMATTHEW LIEBERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Affect Labeling Expressive Writing and Emotion RegulationMatthew Dylan Lieberman; Fiscal Year: 2010....