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CEEing & Consciousness

**Lieberman, M. D. (2022). Seeing minds, matter, and meaning: The CEEing model of pre-reflective subjective construal. Psychological Review, 129, 830-872. pdf
**Dolbier, S., Dieffenbach, M., Lieberman, M. D. (in press). Open-mindedness interventions: An integrative review. Psychological Review (* indicates equal 1st author contributions) pdf
**Lieberman, M. D. (2019). Boo! The consciousness problem in emotion. Cognition & Emotion (Invited piece for 30th anniversary issue)33, 24-30. pdf
Dieffenbach, M. C., Gillespie, G. S. R., Burns, S. M., McCulloh, I. A., Ames, D. L., Dagher, M. M., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2021). Neural reference groups: A synchrony-based classification approach for predicting attitudes using fNIRS. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 117-128. pdf
Tan, K. M., Daitch, A. L., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Fox, K. C. R., Parvizi, J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2022). Electrocorticography evidence of a common neurocognitive sequence for mentalizing about the self and others. Nature Communications, 13, 1-17. pdf
Dolbier, S., Dieffenbach, M., Lieberman, M. D. (revision requested). Open-mindedness interventions: An integrative review. (* indicates equal 1st author contributions) pdf
Dieffenbach, M. & Lieberman, M. D. (preprint). Belief bubbles: How latitudes of acceptance shapes social decisions. pdf
Binnquist, A., Dolbier, S., Dieffenbach, M., & Lieberman, M. D. (2022). The Zoom solution: Promoting effective cross-ideological communication online. PLoS One, 17(7): e0270355 pdf

Social Cognition

**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
**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
**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. (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
**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
**Spunt, R. P. & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Dissociating modality-specific and supramodal neural systems for action understanding. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 3575-3583. pdf
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
Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Education and the social brain. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 1 3-9. 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
Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Birds of a feather synchronize together. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 371-372. 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
Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Naïve realism. In J. Brockman (Ed.), This idea is brilliant (pp. 99-102). New York: Harper.
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
Meyer, M. L. & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). Social working memory training improves perspective-taking accuracy. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 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
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
Welborn, B. L. & Lieberman, M. D. (2015). Person-specific Theory of Mind in medial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 1-12. . 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
Morelli, S. A., Lieberman, M. D., & Zaki, J. (2015). The emerging study of positive empathy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9, 57-58. 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
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
Lieberman, M. D. (2014). Learning from others. Chronicle of Higher Education, 60, B4-B5. 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
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
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
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
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
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
Lieberman, M. D. (2012). A geographical history of social cognitive neuroscience. Neuroimage (invited paper, 20th anniversary issue), 61, 432-436. 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., 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
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
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
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
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
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
Rameson, L. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Empathy: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 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). Social cognitive neuroscience. In R.F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press. PDF
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
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., 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
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
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., & 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
Ochsner, K. N., & Lieberman, M. D. (2001). The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience. American Psychologist, 56, 717-734. pdf
Lieberman, M. D. (2000). Intuition: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 109-137. PDF

fNIRS - Portable, Mobile Neuroimaging

Dieffenbach, M. C., Gillespie, G. S. R., Burns, S. M., McCulloh, I. A., Ames, D. L., Dagher, M. M., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2021). Neural reference groups: A synchrony-based classification approach for predicting attitudes using fNIRS. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 117-128. 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
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

Persuasion, Attitude Change, & Message Propagation

**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. 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
**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
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
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., 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vezich, S., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Falk, E. & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). The neural bases of attitudes. In F. Krueger & J. Grafman (Eds.). The neural basis of human belief systems. Psychology Press. 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
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

Emotion & Regulation

**Lieberman, M. D. (2019). Boo! The consciousness problem in emotion. Cognition & Emotion (Invited piece for 30th anniversary issue)33, 24-30.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
**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., Inagaki, T. K., Tabibnia, G., & Crockett, M. J. (2011). Subjective responses to emotional stimuli during labeling, reappraisal, and distraction. Emotion, 11, 468-480. pdf
**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
**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
**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
Burklund, L. J., Davies, C. D., Niles, A., Torre, J. B., Brown, L., Vinograd, M., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (in press). Affect labeling: A promising new neuroscience-based approach to treating combat-related PTSD in veterans. Frontiers in Psychology. 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. (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
Sahi, R.S ., Gaines, E. M., Nussbaum, S. G., Lee, D., Lieberman, M. D., Eisenberger, N. I., & Silvers, J. A. (in press). You changed my mind: Immediate and enduring impacts of social emotion. Emotion 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
Welborn, B. L., Lieberman, M. D., Goldenberg, D., Fuligni, A. J., Galvan, A., & Telzer, E. H. (in press). Neural mechanisms of social influence in adolescents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. pdf
Sahi, R., Dieffenbach, M., Gan, S., Lee, M., Hazlett, L., Burns, S., Lieberman, M. D., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2021). Comfort in touch: Immediate and lasting effects of handholding on emotional pain. PLOS One, 16(2), e0246753. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lieberman, M. D. (2012) Diaries: A healthy choice. New York Times, Room for Debate, November 25. 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
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
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
Kircanski, K., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2012). Feelings into words: Contributions of language to exposure therapy. Psychological Science, 23, 1086-1091. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Berkman, E.T., Dickenson, J., Falk, E.B., & Lieberman, M.D. (in press). Using SMS text messaging to assess moderators of smoking reduction: Validating a new tool for ecological measurement of health behaviors. Health Psychology. 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
Lieberman, M. D. (2011). Why symbolic processing of affect can disrupt negative affect: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience investigations. In A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske, & D. Prentice (Eds.) Social Neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind. Oxford University Press. 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
Lieberman, M. D. (2009). The Brains' Braking System (and how to 'use your words' to tap into it). Neuroleadership, 2, 9-14. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Social Pains & Pleasures

**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. & 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
**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., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2009). Pains and pleasures of social life. Science, 323, 890-891. 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
**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
**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
Lieberman, M. D. (2022). Connecting for success: Interventions that increase our sense of belonging can help us confront new challenges. Science, 377, 1161. 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
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
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
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
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
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
Sahi, R., Dieffenbach, M., Gan, S., Lee, M., Hazlett, L., Burns, S., Lieberman, M. D., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2021). Comfort in touch: Immediate and lasting effects of handholding on emotional pain. PLOS One, 16(2), e0246753. 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
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
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., & 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
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
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
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
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
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., 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
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
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., & 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

Self

**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
**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
**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
Cascio, C. N., O'Donnell, M. B., Tinney, F. J., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., Strecher, V. J., & Falk, E. B. (in press). Self-affirmation activates brain systems associated with self-related processing and reward and is reinforced by future orientation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 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
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
Rameson, L., Satpute, A., & Lieberman, M. (2010). The neural corelates of implicit and explicit self-relevant processing. NeuroImage, 50, 701-708. 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
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
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
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

Fairness

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
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
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
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
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

Automaticity, Controlled Processing, & Consciousness

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
Lieberman, M. D. (2011). Why symbolic processing of affect can disrupt negative affect: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience investigations. In A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske, & D. Prentice (Eds.) Social Neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind. Oxford University Press. PDF
Rameson, L., Satpute, A., & Lieberman, M. (2010). The neural corelates of implicit and explicit self-relevant processing. NeuroImage, 50, 701-708. 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. (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
Satpute, A.B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Integrating automatic and controlled processing into neurocognitive models of social cognition. Brain Research, 1079, 86-97. 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
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
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

Clinical, Health, & Well-Being

Burklund, L. J., Davies, C. D., Niles, A., Torre, J. B., Brown, L., Vinograd, M., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (in press). Affect labeling: A promising new neuroscience-based approach to treating combat-related PTSD in veterans. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kircanski, K., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2012). Feelings into words: Contributions of language to exposure therapy. Psychological Science, 23, 1086-1091. 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. 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., 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
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
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
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., 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
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
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

Culture

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., 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., 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
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

Methods

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

For Non-Academics

Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Birds of a feather synchronize together. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 371-372. pdf
Lieberman, M. D., Rock, D., Halvorson, H. G., & Cox, C. (2015). Breaking bias updated: The SEEDS model. Neuroleadership Journal, 6, 4-18. pdf
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