Contact Information

UCLA Department of Psychology
Box 951563
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
On-campus mail: 4461C Franz Hall 156304
Tel: (310) 206-4050
Fax: (310) 206-5895
E-mail: lieber@ucla.edu
Web: www.bol.ucla.edu/~lieber/Lieberman/lieberman.html

Biosketch

Dr. Lieberman has been pursuing social and personality psychology issues using the methods of cognitive neuroscience (fMRI, neuropsychology). His past research has included work on emotion regulation, extraversion, neuroticism, stereotyping, and person perception. His work has led to two new avenues of research that intersect with health and medicine. First, he is working with Naomi Eisenberger, Dr. Emeran Mayer, Dr. Steve Berman, and Dr. Bruce Naliboff to examine the neural basis for social support mitigating the experience of pain. He is also working with Johanna Jarcho and Dr. Andrew Leuchter to examine the neural correlates of the conscious and nonconscious aspects of placebo effects.

Selected References

Eisenberger NI, Lieberman MD, Williams KD. (in press). Does rejection hurt? An fMRI study of social exclusion. To appear in Science.

Eisenberger NI and Lieberman MD. (in press). 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. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lieberman MD. Reflective and reflexive judgment processes: a social cognitive neuroscience approach . In: Forgas JP, Williams K, von Hippel W, eds. Responding to the social world: implicit and explicit processes in social judgments and decisions. Philadelphia: Psychology Press. In press.