Matthew Lieberman Explained

Matthew Dylan Lieberman is a Professor and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Director at UCLA Department of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.^[1]

Matthew Lieberman
Birth Date:	5 May 1970
Birth Place:	Atlantic City, NJ.
Alma Mater:	Rutgers University Harvard University
Occupation:	Social Psychologist, Neurologist, Professor
Workplaces:	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Spouse:	Naomi Eisenberger

Personal life and education

Lieberman was born on May 5, 1970, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His father was a lawyer and his mother an art teacher. His wife, Naomi Eisenberger, is a full professor on the UCLA Psychology Department faculty.^[2] Lieberman is a graduate of Harvard University, where he later taught several classes.^[3] Naomi Eisenberger and Matthew Lieberman have a son.^[4]

Research and career

Lieberman's work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, DARPA,^[5] and the Office of Naval Research.^[6]

Lieberman conducts research into the neural bases of social cognition and social experience, with particular emphasis on the neural bases of emotion regulation, persuasion, social rejection, self-knowledge, theory of mind, and fairness. Lieberman coined the term social cognitive neuroscience.^[7] His research interests also include Neural Bases of Automatic and Controlled Social Cognition & Affect and Neural Bases of Personality. Social cognitive neuroscience focuses on how the human brain carries out social information processing. Lieberman uses functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and neuropsychology to test new hypotheses regarding social cognition.^[8]

Lieberman is the founding editor of the journal, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.^[9]

In 2007, he won the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.^[10]

In 2011, he was the recipient of UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize.^[11]

Selected publications

• Lieberman, M. D. (2013). Social: Why our brains are wired to connect. New York, NY: Crown
• Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Social cognitive neuroscience. In S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds). Handbook of Social Psychology (5th ed.) (pp. 143–193). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
• 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.
• Lieberman, M. D., Eisenberger, N. I., Crockett, M. J., Tom, S., Pfeifer, J. H., Way, B. M. (2007). Putting feelings into words: Affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity to affective stimuli. Psychological Science, 18, 421–428.
• Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Williams, K. D. (2003). Does rejection hurt? An fMRI study of social exclusion. Science, 302, 290–292.

External links

• Putting Feelings Into Words
• Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works
• Which ads are winners? Your brain knows

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty — UCLA Psychology Department: Home . Psych.ucla.edu . 2013-08-19.
2. Web site: Faculty — UCLA Psychology Department: Home . Psych.ucla.edu . 2013-08-19.
3. Web site: Matthew Lieberman's Teaching Page . Lieber.bol.ucla.edu . 2013-08-19.
4. Web site: TEDxStLouis. The social brain and its superpowers. YouTube. 7 May 2018.
5. Web site: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 2013-07-08. Darpa.mil. 2013-08-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20200115130051/https://www.darpa.mil/. 2020-01-15. dead.
6. Web site: Office of Naval Research Home Page. Onr.navy.mil. 2013-08-19.
7. 2012-06-01. A geographical history of social cognitive neuroscience. NeuroImage. en. 61. 2. 432–436. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.089. 22309803. 1053-8119. Lieberman. Matthew D.. 7414824.
8. Web site: Matthew Lieberman . Lieber.bol.ucla.edu . 2013-08-19.
9. Web site: Matthew D. Lieberman, Ph.D. . Oxford Journals | Medicine | Social Cognitive & Affective Neurosci . https://web.archive.org/web/20060615021652/http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/ . dead . 2006-06-15 . Scan.oxfordjournals.org . 2013-08-06 . 2013-08-19.
10. Web site: APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology . Apa.org . 2013-06-01 . 2013-08-19.
11. Web site: Soderburg . Wendy . Social psychologist is winner of 2011 Gold Shield Faculty Prize / UCLA Today . Today.ucla.edu . 2013-08-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131023221259/http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/matthew-lieberman-207885.aspx . 2013-10-23 . dead .