MATTHEW DYLAN LIEBERMAN - Social Cognitive Neuroscience ...

MATTHEW DYLAN LIEBERMAN
mdlieber99@gmail.com
www.scn.ucla.edu
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall
Assistant: Kate Haltom
University of California, Los Angeles Franz Hall, rm 4444
Los Angeles, California 90095-1563
Email: scnlab@psych.ucla.edu
Phone: 310.206.4050 Phone: 310.794.0057
FAX: 310.206.5895
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EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION
Associate Professor of Psychology, Social Psychology, 2006-present, UCLA
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Social Psychology, 2000-2006 UCLA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Behavioral Neuroscience, 1999-2000, UCLA
Ph.D., Social Psychology, 1999, Harvard University
B.A., Philosophy and Psychology, 1992, Rutgers College
AWARDS & HONORS
APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, 2007
Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Psychology, UCLA, 2004
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience – Founding Editor, 2005-2010
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin – Consulting Editor, 2004-2006
NeuroImage – Guest Editor, 2005, special issue on Social Cognitive Neuroscience
APA Science Leadership Conference – Invited Attendee, 2005, 2006
PUBLICATIONS (*indicates first authors who were my advisees)
62) *Pfiefer, J. H., Masten, C. L., Borofsky, L. A., Dapretto, M., Lieberman, M. D., & Fuligni, A. J. (in press).
Neural correlates of direct and reflect self-appraisals in adolescents and adults. Child Development.
61) *Rameson, L. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). Empathy: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Social
and Personality Psychology Compass.
60) Lieberman, M. D. (in press). The Deacon Doctrine: How brain organization makes big ideas sticky. In M.
Brockman (Ed.) New Ideas from the Next Generation of Scientists. Vintage Books.
59) Cohen, J. R. & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). The common neural basis of exerting self-control in multiple
domains. To appear in Y. Trope, R. Hassin, & K. N. Ochsner (eds.) Self-control.
58) 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 (ed.) In Two Minds: Dual Process and
Beyond (pp. 293-316). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
57) *Amodio, D. M. & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). Pictures in our heads: Contributions of fMRI to the study
of prejudice and stereotyping. To appear in T. Nelson (ed.) Handbook of Prejudice and Discrimination.
Taylor & Francis.
56) Lieberman, M. D. (in press). Gut feelings. To appear in D. Sander & K. Scherer (eds.) Oxford Companion to
Affective Sciences. Oxford University Press.
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55) Lieberman, M. D. (in press). Why symbolic processing of affect can disrupt negative affect: Social cognitive
and affective neuroscience investigations. To appear in A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske, & D. Prentice (eds.) Social
Neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind. Oxford University Press.
54) *Berkman, E. & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). The neuroscience of goal pursuit: Bridging gaps between
theory and data. To appear in G. Moskowitz & H. Grant. (ed.) Goals. Guilford Press.
53) Lieberman, M. D. & Eisenberger, N. I. (2008). The pains and pleasures of social life: A social cognitive
neuroscience approach. Neuroleadership.
52) Lieberman, M. D. (2008). Thank yous and welcomes: SCAN turns two. Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, 3, 191.
51) 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.
50) *Jarcho, J. M., Berman, S. M., Suyenobu, B., Naliboff, B. D., Lieberman, M. D., Mandelkern, M., & Mayer,
E. A. (2008). Neural and psychological predictors of treatment response in irritable bowel syndrome patients
with 5-HT3 receptor antagonist – a pilot study. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 28, 344-352.
49) 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.
48) *Crockett, M. J., Clark, L., Tabibnia, G., Lieberman, M. D., & Robbins, T. W. (2008). Serotonin modulates
behavioral reactions to unfairness. Science, 320, 1739.
47) *Tabibnia, G., 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.
46) *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). Psychologial
Science, 19, 339-347.
45) Eisenberger, N. I., Way, B., Taylor, S. E., & Lieberman, M. D. (2008). MAOA, gender differences and social
exclusion: response to Gallardo-Pujol et al. Biological Psychiatry, 63, e11.
44) 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.
43) *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.
42) Lieberman, M. D. (2007). APA early career award biography. American Psychologist, 62, 793-795.
41) Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (pp. 885-887). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press.
40) Eisenberger, N. I., Gable, S. L., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). fMRI responses relate to differences in realworld
social experience. Emotion, 7, 745-754.
39) *Creswell, D., Way, B., Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Neural correlates of dispositional
mindfulness during affect labeling. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 560-565.
38) *Rameson, L. & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Thinking about the self from a social cognitive neuroscience
perspective. Psychological Inquiry, 18, 117-122.
37) *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.
36) *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.
35) Eisenberger, N. I., Way, B., 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.
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34) 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 responses. NeuroImage, 35, 1601-1612.
33) 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.
32) Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience: A review of core processes. Annual Review of
Psychology, 58, 259-289.
31) Lieberman, M. D. (2007). The X- and C-systems: The neural basis of automatic and controlled social
cognition. To appear in E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkelman (eds.), Fundamentals of Social Neuroscience
(pp. 290-315). New York: Guilford.
30) Eisenberger, N. I., Jarcho, J. J., Lieberman, M. D., & Naliboff, B. D. (2006). An experimental study of
shared sensitivity to physical pain and social rejection. Pain, 126, 132-138
29) Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Neural bases of situational context effects on social perception. Social Cognitive
and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 73-74.
28) 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, 296-301.
27) Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: When opposites attract. Social
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 1-2.
26) *Satpute, A.B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Integrating automatic and conrolled processing into
neurocognitive models of social cognition. Brain Research, 1079, 86-97.
25) 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.
24) *Satpute, A. B.., Sellner, D., Waldman, M. D., Tabibnia, G., Holyoak, K. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). An
fMRI study of causal judgments. European Journal of Neuroscience, 22, 1233-1238.
23) Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Satpute, A. B. (2005). Personality from a controlled processing
perspective: an fMRI study of neuroticism, extraversion, and self-consciousness. Cognitive, Affective, and
Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 169-181.
22) 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.
21) Lieberman, M. D., Hariri, A., Jarcho, J. J., 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, 720-722.
20) Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Broken hearts and broken bones: The neurocognitive overlap
between social pain and physical pain. To appear 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.
19) 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. To appear in J. T.
Cacioppo, P. Visser, & C. Pickett (eds.), Social Neuroscience: People Thinking About Thinking People (pp.
167-187). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
18) 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.
17) 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.
16) 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.
15) Lieberman, M. D., Jarcho, J. M., & Satpute, A. B. (2004). Evidence-based and intuition-based selfknowledge:
An fMRI study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 421-435.
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14) Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2004). “Why it hurts to be left out”: The neurocognitive overlap
between physical and social pain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 294-300.
13) 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.
12) Lieberman, M. D., Chang, G. Y., Chiao, J., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Knowlton, B. J. (2004). An event-related
fMRI study of artificial grammar learning in a balanced chunk strength design. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 16 , 427-438.
11) 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.
10) Gilbert, D. T., Lieberman, M. D., Morewedge, C. K. & Wilson, T. D. (2004). The peculiar longevity of
things not so bad. Psychological Science, 15, 14-19.
9) Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Williams, K. D. (2003). Does rejection hurt An fMRI study of social
exclusion. Science, 302, 290-292.
8) 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.
7) Lieberman, M. D. (2003). Reflective and Reflexive Judgment Processes: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Approach . J. P. Forgas, K. R. Williams, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), Social judgments: Implicit and explicit
processes (pp. 44-67). New York: Cambridge University Press.
6) 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.
5) Ochsner, K. N., & Lieberman, M. D. (2001). The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience. American
Psychologist, 56, 717-734.
4) 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
3) 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.
2) Lieberman, M. D. (2000). Introversion and working memory: Central executive differences. Personality and
Individual Differences, 28, 479-486.
1) Lieberman, M. D. (2000). Intuition: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Psychological Bulletin, 126,
109-137
COMMISSIONED AND INVITED PAPERS IN PROGRESS
Lieberman, M. D. (commissioned). Social cognitive neuroscience. In S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert, & D. Lindzey
(eds.) Handbook of Social Psychology (5 th Edition).
Lieberman, M. D. (in prep). D 3 -Theory: A role for right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in disruption,
disambiguation, and detachment from immediate experience. Commissioned for Perspectives on
Psychological Science.
Berkman, E., & Lieberman, M. D. (commissioned). The neural basis of emotion regulation. Personality and
Social Psychology Compass.
Falk, E. & Lieberman, M. D. (in press). Belief and The Neural Basis of Attitudes. In F. Kruger & J. Grafman
(Eds.). The neural basis of human belief systems. Psychology Press.
Pfeifer, J. H., Lieberman, M. D., & Dapretto, M. (in press). The neural basis of self and social knowledge in
children. To appear in P. D. Zelazo, M. Chandler, & E. Crone (Eds.) Developmental Social Cognitive
Neuroscience. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
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CURRENT GRANTS
$750,000 “Affect labeling, expressive writing, and emotion regulation”, National Institute of Mental Health
(R01MH084116), 7/01/08-6/03/11 (PI: Lieberman, co-PI: Stanton)
$159,200 “The neuroscience of memes”, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (BAA07-21), 1/1/08-
12/31/08 (PI on subcontract: Lieberman)
$275,000 “Neural mediators of behavior therapy for anxiety”, National Institute of Mental Health
(R21MH081299), 4/1/08-3/30/10 (PI: Michelle Craske; co-PI: Lieberman)
$36,500 “Trust, Distrust, and Diversity: The effcts of message source and content”, Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (BAA07-21), 1/1/08-12/31/08 (PI on subcontract: Lieberman)
$10,000 “Genes, Culture, and Relationships: Does variation in the serotonin transporter gene contribute to crosscultural
psychological differences between East Asians and Caucasians”, UCLA Academic Senate Grant,
7/1/07-6/30/08 (PI: Lieberman)
$5,000 “Neurogenetic moderation of cross-cultural differences in sensitivity to social relationships”, Center for
Culture, Brain, & Development (UCLA), 7/1/07-6/30/08 (PI: Lieberman)
$1,209,889 “Psychological and Biological Antecedents of Health Behavior Decisions”, National Institute of
Aging (R01AG030309), 9/30/06-7/31/09 (PI: Shelley Taylor; co-PI: Lieberman)
$58,740 “An fMRI study of genetic, neural, and psychological mechanisms linking social rejection to
aggression”, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 1/1/07-12/31/08 (PI: Lieberman; co-PI: Way)
COMPLETED GRANTS
$233,750 “Neural Mechanisms Underlying Stress Reactivity”, National Institute of Mental Health
(R21MH071521-01), 6/1/05-5/31/08 (PI: Lieberman; co-PI: Shelley Taylor)
$143,000 “Neural Correlates of Persusasive Messages across Cultures”, Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (BAA06-19) 6/01/07-5/31/08 (PI: Lieberman)
$250,000 “The Role of Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Neuroticism and Social Cognition”, National Institute of
Mental Health (R21MH66709-01), 8/1/2002-7/31/2005
$3,000 “The Neural Basis of Family and Peer Importance during Childhood and Adolescence”, UCLA Academic
Senate Grant, 6/1/05-5/30/06 (PI: Andrew Fuligni; co-PI: Lieberman)
$4,500 “The Neural Basis of Family and Peer Importance during Childhood and Adolescence”, Center for
Culture, Brain, & Development (UCLA), 3/1/05-2/28/06 (PI: Andrew Fuligni; co-PI: Lieberman)
$118,000 “Psychobiological concomitants of bereaved women at breast cancer risk”, California Breast Cancer
Research Program (10IB-0048), 7/1/04-1/31/06 (PI: David Wellisch; co-PI: Lieberman)
$7,500 “Neural Correlates of Self-schemas”, UCLA Academic Senate Grant, 7/1/03-6/31/04
$150,000 "The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Automatic Social Inference" McDonnell-Pew Cognitive
Neuroscience Grant (JSMF 99-25 CN-QUA.05), 1999-2002 (co-PI: Barbara Knowlton)
$98,013 "Fast or Slow, High or Low, Stop or Go: The Neural Basis of Three Basic Dichotomies of Social
Cognition" National Science Foundation Small Grant for Exploratory Research (BCS-0074562), 2000-2002
(co-PI: Barbara Knowlton)
$38,000 “Conference on Social Cognitive Neuroscience” National Science Foundation (BCS-0101835), 2000-
2001, (co-PI’s: Alan Fiske, Susanne Lohmann, and Marco Iacoboni).
$10,000 “Conference on Social Cognitive Neuroscience”, National Institute of Mental Health (467-MZ-100690),
2000-2001 (co-PI’s: Alan Fiske, Susanne Lohmann, and Marco Iacoboni)
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ADVISEE FUNDING
Eva Telzer – National Science Foundation, 2008-2011
Tristen Inagaki – Jacob Javits Fellowship, 2008-2011
Sylvia Morelli – National Science Foundation (Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program), 2008-2010
Baldwin Way - National Research Service Award (Health Psychology Training Grant - NIMH), 2005-2008,
NARSAD (2007-2009)
Emily Falk – National Science Foundation, 2007-2010
Lian Rameson – Jacob Javits Fellowship, 2005-2007, National Science Foundation, 2007-2010
Carrie Masten – National Science Foundation, 2005-2008
David Amodio – National Research Service Award (Health Psychology Training Grant - NIMH), 2003-2005
Jennifer Pfeifer – Natrional Science Foundation, 2002-2005
National Research Service Award (NIMH), 2005-2007
Ajay Satpute – Natrional Science Foundation, 2002-2005
Sarah Master – National Science Foundation, 2003-2006
Johanna Jarcho – National Research Service Award (Health Psychology Training Grant - NIMH), 2003-2005
National Research Service Award (Individual Award – NIMH), 2006-2008
FORMER STUDENTS
Jennifer Pfeifer – Graduate Advisee (2001-2007), will be assistant professor, University of Oregon, July 2008
David Creswell – Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2008), will be assistant professor, Carnegie Mellon, July 2008
David Amodio – Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2005), now assistant professor, NYU
Molly Crockett – Undergraduate Advisee (2001-2005), now a Gates Fellow at Cambridge, UK. National
Science Foundation, 2008-2011
Golnaz Tabibnia – Graduate advisee (2001-2006), will be assistant professor, Carnegie Mellon, July 2008
INVITED COLLOQUIA
Dartmouth, 2010 (planned); San Diego State, 2008; University of Maryland, 2008; Washington University,
2006; Cornell University, 2006; Carnegie Mellon, 2006; Kyoto University (Japan), 2005; University of
Zurich (Switzerland), 2005; University of Kentucky, 2005; Purdue University, 2005; Ohio State University,
2005; New York University, 2005; Columbia University, 2005; Yale University, 2005; Harvard University,
2005; University of Chicago, 2005, University of California, San Diego, 2005, California Institute of
Technology, 2005; University of California, Riverside, 2005; University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004;
Macquarie University (Australia), 2004; Washington University, St. Louis, 2003; University of California,
Davis, 2003; National Institute of Drug Abuse, 2002; Cal State Fullerton, 2002; University of Southern
California, 2002; Lehigh University, 2001; Wayne State University, 2001; Dartmouth University, 2000;
University of British Columbia, (Canada) 2000; University of California, Irvine, 2000; University of
California, Los Angeles, 1999; University of California, Berkeley, 1999; Rutgers University, 1999; New
York University, 1999
SYMPOSIA & INVITED CONFERENCE TALKS
54) Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Why putting feelings into words can dampen feelings. Talk given at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science conference, February, Chicago, Ill.
53) Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Teaching social cognitive neuroscience. Talk given at the SPSP Teaching
preconference, Tampa, Florida.
52) Lieberman, M. D. (2008). The pains and pleasures of social life. Keynote address at the New York City
Neuroleadership Summit.
51) Lieberman, M. D. (2008). The pains and pleasures of social life. Keynote address at the Sydney
Neuroleadership Summit.
50) Lieberman, M. D. (2008). Neural bases of persuasion and dissonance-related attitude change. Talk given at
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the 2 nd Annual Social and Affective Neuroscience conference, Boston, MA.
49) Lieberman, M. D. (2008). The self and decision-making: A view from the brain. Talk given at the 8th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
48) Lieberman, M. D. (2008). Using neuroscience to do social psychology: Investigating self-processes. Talk
given at the SPSP training preconference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
47) Pfeifer, J. H., Dapretto, M., & Lieberman, M. D. (2008). Cooties and crushes: gender and the moderation of
neural systems for shared representations of emotion in children. Talk given at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
46) Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Why putting feelings into words can dampen the feelings: A social cognitive
neuroscience approach. UCLA Emeriti Association.
45) Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Neural contributions of emotion regulation to decision-making. Talk given at the
Summer Institute for Social Neuroscience, July, Santa Barbara, CA.
44) Lieberman, M. D. (2007). fMRI studies of self-knowledge: developmental, social, and cognitive
perspectives. Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, October,
Chicago, IL.
43) Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Coping with rejection in academic writing. Talk given Annal Meeting of the
American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
42) Pfiefer, J. H., Dapretto, M., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Factors influencing self-relevant information
processing in the pre-teen brain. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
41) Pfeifer, J. H., Lieberman, M. D., & Dapretto, M. (2007). Thinking about me, thinking about you: Neural
bases of self- and social knowledge retrieval in middle childhood. Talk given at the biennial meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
40) Pfeifer, J. H., Lieberman, M. D., Fuligni, A. N., & Dapretto, M. (2007). Developing self-knowledge,
developing identities, developing brains. Talk given at the Self & Identity Preconference held at the Society
for Personality and Social Psychology Meeting, Memphis, TN.
39) Lieberman, M. D. (2006). The hurdles of interdisciplinary research. Talk given at the 2 nd annual APA
Science Leadership Conference, Dec. 2, Washington D.C.
38) Tabibnia, G., Craske, M.G., & Lieberman, M.D. (2006). Activity in lateral and medial prefrontal cortices
during exposure to aversive images predicts reduced autonomic response to those images a week later. Talk
given at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Oct. 16, Atlanta, GA.
37) Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Neural bases of reflective and reflexive social cognition. Talk given at the “In two
minds: Dual-process theories of reasoning and rationality, Cambridge, UK.
36) Lieberman, M. D. (2006). The role of right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in emotiona regulation during
social interactions. Talk at the 13 th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April, San
Francisco, CA.
35) Lieberman, M. D. (2006). When language disrupts affect: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Invited
Division 3 talk given at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. New Orleans, LA.
34) Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Putting feelings into words: The neural and genetic bases of language-driven
emotion regulation. Invited talk in the 2006 Spielberger EMPathy Symposium given at the Annual Meeting
of the American Psychological Association. New Orleans, LA.
33) Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Putting feelings into words: The neural bases of language-driven emotion
regulation. Invited address at the Western Psychological Association Convention, Palm Springs, CA. April.
32) Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Disruption theory: A neurocognitive model of the self-regulatory benefits of
putting feelings into words. Talk at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
31) Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Reflective conscious processes ≠ reflexive unconscious processes + awareness: A
social cognitive neuroscience approach. Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Social
Psychology, October, San Diego, CA.
30) Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Social cognitive neuroscience approaches to relating the self to its social world.
Symposium chair (invited) at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology,
October, San Diego, CA.
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29) Eisenberger, N. I., Taylor, S. I., Gable. S., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Social rejection: A social cognitive
neuroscience approach. Invited symposium talk at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental
Social Psychology, October, San Diego, CA.
28) Pfeifer, J. P., Iacoboni, M., Dapretto, M., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Self and other as distinct sources for
understanding and relating to self and others: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Invited symposium
talk at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, October, San Diego, CA.
27) Lieberman, M. E. (2005). Putting feelings into words: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Invited talk
at the “Psychology and Neuroscience of Emotions Conference”, June 12, Zurich, Switzerland.
26) Jarcho, J. M., Suyenobu, B. Y., Berman, S., Naliboff, B., Lieberman, M. D., & Mayer, E. A. (2005).
Identification of IBS responders to 5-HT3 receptor antagonism by distinct brain responses prior to drug
treatment. Talk given at Digestive Disease Week annual conference, May 2005, Chicago, IL.
25) Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Different brain regions involved in interpreting social threats by linguistic and
non-linguistic means: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Invited talk at the International
Symposium on Emergent Mechanisms of Communication, February 28, Kyoto, Japan.
24) Lieberman, M. D. & Tabibnia, G. (2005). Prospect theory, reward, and the brain: A neuroeconomics
approach to subjective value and objective utility. Hot topics talk given at the 17 th annual meeting of the
American Psychological Society, May 27, Los Angeles, CA.
23) Creswell, J.D., Eisenberger, N.I., & Lieberman, M.D. (2005). Neural correlates of mindfulness during social
exclusion. Oral presentation at the 3rd Annual Conference on Integrating Mindfulness-Based Stress
Reduction Interventions into Medicine, Health Care, and Society, in Worcester, MA.
22) Lieberman, M. D., Eisenberger, N. I., & Crockett, M. J. (2005). Why do elderly primes slow you down An
fMRI study comparing ideomotor and disruption accounts of automatic behavior. Paper presented at the 6th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February, 2003, New Orleans, MO.
21) Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Updating the classics: How the brain informs our understanding of classic social
psychological phenomena. Symposium Chair at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, February, 2003, New Orleans, MO.
20) Eisenberger, N. I. & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Personality differences in controlled processing responses to
discrepancies: An fMRI study of self-consciousness, extraversion, and neuroticism. Paper presented at the
6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February, 2003, New Orleans,
MO.
19) Lieberman, M. D. (2004). When language disrupts affect. A social cognitive neuroscience approach. UCLA
Neuropsychiatric Institue, Grand Rounds Talk, October 26, 2004, Los Angeles.
18) Lieberman, M. D. & Eisenberger, N. I. (2004). The pain of social rejection and the function of dorsal anterior
cingulate cortex. Invited talk at the Social Neuroscience Conference, May 14, 2004, Chicago, Il.
17) Eisenberger, N. I. & Lieberman, M. D. (2004). “Why it hurts to be left out”: The neurocognitive overlap
between physical and social pain. Paper presented at the 7 th Sydney Symposium, March 19, 2004, Sydney,
Australia.
16) Lieberman, M. D. (2004). Disruption theory: Why thinking about affect inhibits affect and behavior. Invited
talk in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Preconference held at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Meeting, April 15, San Francisco, CA.
15) Lieberman, M. D. (2004). Dispruptive effects of language on automatic affect and automatic behavior: A
social cognitive neuroscience approach. Invited talk in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Preconference
held at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Meeting, January 29, Austin, TX.
14) Lieberman, M. D. (2003). Social cognitive neuroscience. Why social psychologists should care about their
brains. Keynote speech. Tagung der Fachgruppe für Sozialpsychologie, September 24, Heidelberg,
Germany.
13) Lieberman, M. D. (2003). The common neural bases of the experience and self-regulation of physical pain,
social threat cues, and interpersonal rejection: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Invited crosscutting
symposium on “The Social Neuroscience of Interpersonal Processes”, 15 th annual meeting of the
American Psychological Society, May 31, Savannah, GA.
12) Lieberman, M. D. (2003). Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to the Self. Symposium Chair at the
4th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February, 2003, Los Angeles,
CA.
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11) Lieberman, M. D., Jarcho, J. M., & Satpute, A. B. (2003). An fMRI Study of Self-Schemas in Comedians
and Athletes. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, February, 2003, Los Angeles, CA.
10) Lieberman, M. D. (2002). Mind-brain-body interactions: Discussant. First annual integrative medicine
symposium, September 27, 2002, Los Angeles, CA.
9) Lieberman, M. D. (2002). Impulse Eruption and Disruption: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach.
National Institute of Drug Abuse, July 22, 2002, Bethesda, MD.
8) Lieberman, M. D. (2002). Is Self-Created Happiness Created Consciously Neuropsychological and Cognitive
Studies. SouthernCalifornia Positive Psychology Conference, April 5, 2002, Claremont, CA.
7) Lieberman, M. D. (2002). Disruption theory: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to introspectionjudgment
effects. Paper presented at the 5 th Sydney Symposium, March 19, 2002, Sydney, Australia.
6) Lieberman, M. D. (2001). An fMRI study of verbal overshadowing and stereotypes. Paper presented at the
UCLA Conference on Social Cognitive Neuroscience, April 26, 2001, Los Angeles, CA.
5) Iacoboni, M., Knowlton, B. J., Lieberman, M. D., & Fiske, A. P. (2001). FMRI of observing communal and
ranking relationships. Paper presented at the 31 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience,
November 13, 2001, San Diego, CA.
4) Fiske, A., Iacoboni, M., Knowlton, B. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2001). Intrepreting communal and ranking
relationships: First results from an fMRI study. Paper presented at the UCLA Conference on Social
Cognitive Neuroscience, April 28, 2001, Los Angeles, CA.
3) Lieberman, M. D., Hariri, A., Bookheimer, S. (2001). Controlling automatic stereotype activation. An fMRI
study. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
February 4, 2001, San Antonio, TX
2) Lieberman, M. D. (1999). Synthetic happiness: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Invited talk at the
2d annual Mind, Brain, and Behavior conference, March 1999, Harvard Medical School.
1) Gilbert, D. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (1999). Mispredicting forgiveness. Paper presented at the Society of
Experimental Social Psychology, October 16, 1999, St. Louis.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS & POSTERS
45) Falk, E., Rameson, L., Kang, Y., Pei, S., & Lieberman, M. D., & Mann, T. (2008). The neural correlates of
attitude change: Implications for the social psychology of attitude change. Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
44) Berkman, E., Burklund, L., & Lieberman, M. D. (2008). Cross-modal inhibition: Intentional motor
inhibition produces incidental emotional inhibition. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
43) Payer, D. E., Lieberman, M. D., & London, E. D. (2007, June). Amygdala inhibition is impaired in
methamphetamine-dependent compared to healthy individuals. Poster presented at the 69 th Annual Meeting
of the College of Problems of Drug Dependence, Quebec City, Canada.
42) Berkman, E., Burklund, L., & Lieberman, M.D. (2007, May). Motivation in action: Neural correlates of
approach (BAS) – avoidance (BIS) during goal pursuit. Poster presented at the Neural Systems of Social
Behavior conference, Austin, TX.
41) Jarcho, J., Berkman, E., & Lieberman, M.D. (2007, May). Neural correlates of post-decisional attitude
change. Poster presented at the Neural Systems of Social Behavior conference, Austin, TX.
40) Tabibnia, G., Craske, M. G., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007, May). The lasting effects of words on feelings:
Clues from fMRI and psychophysiology. Poster presented at the Neural Systems of Social Behavior
conference, Austin, TX.
39) Rameson, L. & Lieberman, M.D. (2007). Do self-schemas predict memory performance once biased
responding and self-reference effects are accounted for Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
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38) Wu, C., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Mental mismatch: The challenge with predicting future feelings. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC.
37) Pfeifer, J. H., Dapretto, M., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Self-schema development: An fMRI study in 9 and
10 year olds. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
Memphis, TN.
36) Berkman, E., Burklund, L. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Motivation in action: Neural systems of approachavoidance
during goal pursuit. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
35) Burklund, L., Taylor, S. E., Eisenberger, N. I., Lehman, B., Hilmert, C., & Lieberman, M. D. (2007).
Psychosocial resources moderate physiological stress responses and amygdala reactivity. Poster presented at
the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
34) Uddin, L. Q., Berman, S., Lieberman, M. D., & Zaidel, E. (2006). ERP indices of overt and covert selfrecognition.
Poster presented at 36 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
33) Creswell, J.D., Way, B., Eisenberger, N.I., & Lieberman, M.D. (2006). An fMRI investigation of
mindfulness and affect regulation. Poster presented at the 64 th annual American Psychosomatic Society
conference in Denver, CO.
32) Tabibnia, G., Craske, M.G., & Lieberman, M.D. (2006). Linguistic labeling of aversive pictures attenuates
long-term physiological reactivity. Invited Data Blitz Talk presented at the Center for Neurovisceral
Sciences & Women’s Health (CNS/WH) Basic and Translational Science Symposium.
31) Kozonis, A., Berkman, E., Prok, T., Lieberman, M. D., & Gable, S. (2006). Approach-avoidance motivation
moderates emotion regulation and affects goal attainment. Poster presented at the 7 th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, January 2006, Palm Springs, CA.
30) Burklund, L. J., Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Master, S. (2006). The neural correlates of
disapproving facial expressions. Poster presented at the 7 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology, January 2006, Palm Springs, CA.
29) Crockett, M. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Affect labeling disrupts affect-related skin conductance
responses. Poster presented at the 7 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
January 2006, Palm Springs, CA.
28) Tabibnia, G., Craske, M. G., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Linguistic processing helps attenuate physiological
reactivity to aversive photographs after repeated exposure. Poster presented at 35 th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience, Nov. 12, Washington, DC. (published abstract)
27) Tabibnia, G., Craske, M. G., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Linguistic processing helps attenuate physiological
reactivity to aversive photographs after repeated exposure. Poster presented at the 17 th Annual Meeting of
the American Psychological Society, May, Century City, CA.
26) Burklund, L. J., Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Master, S. (2005). The neural correlates of
disapproving facial expressions. Poster presented at the 17 th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological
Society, May, Century City, CA.
25) Crockett, M. J., Tom, S., Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Disrupting automatic emotional
responses: An fMRI study of affect labeling. Proceedings of the 12 th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, April, New York, NY.
24) Pfeifer, J. H., Lieberman, M. D., Juvonen, J., & Dapretto, M. (2005). Neural basis of self-knowledge
retrieval in children. Proceedings of the 12 th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April,
New York, NY.
23) Crockett, M. J., Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Stereotype Activation or Behavior
Regulation An fMRI Study of Automatic Behavior Effects. Poster presented at the 6 th Annual Meeting of
the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, January , 2005, New Orleans, LA.
22) Creswell, J.D., Eisenberger, N.I., Lieberman, M.D. (2005). Mindfulness enhances the self-regulation of
negative affect: an fMRI study. Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Conference on Integrating Mindfulness-
Based Stress Reduction Interventions into Medicine, Health Care, and Society, in Worcester, MA.
21) Holyoak, K. J., Satpute, A. B., Sellner, D. B., Waldmann, M. R., & Lieberman, M. D. (2004, August). An
fMRI study of causal versus associative judgments. Poster presented at the 28 th International Congress of
Psychology, August, 2004, Beijing, China.
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20) Horwitz, J., Lieberman, M. D., & Cannon, T. D. (2004). Different Neural Activation for Moving, Static,
Upright, and Inverted Faces: an fMRI Pilot Study. Poster presented at 34 th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Neuroscience, Oct. 23, San Diego, CA.
19) Crockett, M. J., Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2004). Stereotype Activation or Behavior
Regulation An fMRI Study of Automatic Behavior Effects. Proceedings of the 11 th Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 16, San Francisco, CA.
18) Jarcho, J. M., Lieberman, M. D., Berman, S. M., Naliboff, B. D., Suyenobu, B. Y., & Mayer, E. A. (2004).
The neural correlates of placebo effects: A disruption account. Poster presented at the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society annual conference, April, 2004, San Francisco, CA.
17) Satpute, A. B., Sellner, D. B., Waldmann, M. R., Tabibnia, G., Holyoak, K. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2004).
An fMRI Study of Causal Versus Associative Judgments. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April, 2004, San Francisco, CA. (p.209)
16) Pfeifer, J. H., Lieberman, M. D., & Scheele, G. (2004). They All Look Alike" Correlates of the Own-Race
Bias in Face Recognition During Late Adolescence. Poster presented at the Society for Research on
Adolescence, March 13, 2004, Baltimore, MD.
15) Pfeifer, J. H., Lieberman, M. D., Scheele, G., Law, A., & Simon, H. (2004). What’s Biased in the Own-Race
Bias in Face Recognition – Attitudes or Expertise Poster presented at the 5 th Annual Meeting of the Society
for Personality and Social Psychology, January , 2004, Austin, TX.
14) Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Williams, K. D. (2004). Does rejection hurt An fMRI study of
social exclusion. Poster presented at the 5 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, January , 2004, Austin, TX.
13) Jarcho, J. M., Lieberman, M. D., Berman, S. M., Naliboff, B. D., Suyenobu, B. Y., & Mayer, E. A. (2004).
The neural correlates of placebo effects: A disruption account. Poster presented at the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology annual conference, January, 2004, Austin, TX.
12) Eisenberger, N. I., Satpute, A. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2003). Self-awareness of arousal states and the
anterior cingulate cortex: An fMRI study of personality. Poster presented at the 10 th Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March, 2003, New York, NY.
11) Eisenberger, N. I., Satpute, A. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2003). Self-awareness of arousal states and the
anterior cingulate cortex: An fMRI study of personality. Poster presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February , 2003, Los Angeles, CA
10) Jarcho, J. M. & Lieberman, M. D. (2003). Person perception: A cultural link in the perceptual chain. Poster
presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February , 2003,
Los Angeles, CA
9) Jarcho, J. M., Satpute, A. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2003). Automatic and controlled processing of selfrelevant
information: Neural correlates of the self-schema. Poster presented at the 10 th Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March, 2003, New York, NY.
8) Monar-Szakacs, I., Fiske, A., Lieberman, M. Knowlton, B., & Iacoboni, M. (2003). Understanding social
relationships: an rTMS study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization ofHuman Brain
Mapping.
7) Iacoboni , M., Knowlton B. J., Lieberman M. D., & Fiske A P. (2001) fMRI of observing communal and
ranking relationships. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27, 1205.
6) Lieberman, M. D., Knowlton, B. J., & Savoy, R. (2000). A functional MRI study of artificial grammar
learning. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
5) Ochsner, K. N., Lieberman, M. D., Gilbert, D. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2000). Attitude change in amnesia: a
social cognitive neuroscience approach. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society.
4) Lieberman, M. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (1998). The role of affective forecasting in mis-predictions of
forgiveness. Poster presented at the 10th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, May 1998,
Washington DC.
3) Lieberman, M. D., & Rosenthal, R. (1998). Extravert Decoding Advantage Social multi-tasking and
nonverbal communication. Poster presented at the 106th annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association, August 1998, San Francisco.
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2) Puccinelli, N., Ambady, N., Lieberman, M. D., & Fernandez, S. (1996). Implicit causality and gender in
language. Paper presented at the 8th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, July 1, 1996,
San Francisco.
1) Yen, H., Madon, S., Jussim, L., Lieberman, M. D., Leon, S., and Mennona, P. (1993). Reactions to
interpersonal evaluative feedback. Paper presented at the 101st annual meeting of the American
Psychological Association, August 20, 1993, Toronto, Ontario.
AFFILIATIONS
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UCLA, executive committee, 2004-2008
UCLA Behavioral Decision Making Group, UCLA, member, 2005-present
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, UCLA, member, 2006-present
Center for Neurovisceral Sciences & Women’s Health, UCLA, member, 2003-present
Center for Culture, Brain, & Development, UCLA, member, 2001-present
Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine, UCLA, member 2003-present
Health Psychology Training Grant, affiliate, 2001-present
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 1999-present
Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2005-present
American Psychological Society, 2003-present
American Psychological Association, 1996-present
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2005-present
Sigma Xi, 2003-2007
PREVIOUS AWARDS & HONORS
Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University, 1997
Marie E. McMaster Bequest grant, Harvard University, 1997
Innovative Instruction grant, Harvard University, 1996
Derek Bok Teaching Prize, Harvard University, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
Gordon Allport grant, Harvard University, 1995, 1998
William James Fellowship, Harvard University, 1995-1996
George W. Goethals Teaching Prize, Harvard University, 1995, 1996, 1997
Elsie Hopestill Stimson grant, Harvard University, 1995, 1996, 1998
Fellow at the McDonell Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, 1995
Henry A. Rand grant, Harvard University, 1995
Graduate Writing Fellow, Harvard University, 1995
Jordan B. Knox Bequest grant, Harvard University, 1994
Henry Rutgers Grant, Rutgers College, 1991-1992
Rutgers College Merit Scholarship, Rutgers College, 1990 and 1991
Den's Award for Excellence, Rutgers College, 1989
Rutgers College Award for Academic Excellence, Rutgers College, 1990
Women's League of Rutgers Award for Academic Excellence and Community Service, Rutgers College, 1992
Dean's List, all eight semesters, Rutgers College, 1988-1992
Garden State Scholarship, NJ, 1988
Justice Lodge Scholarship, Atlantic County, NJ, 1988
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AD HOC REVIEWER:
Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, Behavioral Decision Making, Biological Psychiatry, Bipolar
Disorders, Brain Research, British Journal of Social Psychology, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition & Emotion,
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience ✝ , Consciousness & Cognition, Current Biology, Current
Directions in Psychological Science, Emotion ✝ , European Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ✝ , Journal of Consumer Behavior, Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Human Perception and Performance ✝ , Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ✝ , Journal of
Neuroscience ✝ , Journal of Pain ✝ , Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ✝ , Journal of Research in
Personality ✝ , NeuroImage ✝ , Neuropsychologia ✝ , Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Letters, Organizational
Behavioral and Human Decision Processes ✝ , Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ✝ , Personality and
Social Psychology Review ✝ , Political Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ✝ ,
Psychiatry Research, Psychological Bulletin ✝ , Psychological Review, Psychological Science ✝ , Science ✝ , Social
Cognition, Trends in Cognitive Sciences ✝
(TOTAL of 39 journals, ✝ =multiple reviews)
GRANT REVIEWER:
National Institutes of Health, Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes Study Section,
member, 2006-2007, ad hoc reviewer
NIMH ZRG-RPHB panel, 2007, ad hoc reviewer
National Science Foundation, ad hoc reviewer, 2002-2003
National Institute of Mental Health, 2003-2004, Special emphasis section on “Building translational research
in behavioral science”
Canadian Foundation for Innovation, 2004
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Cognitive dissonance: New York Times (11/6/07), International Herald Tribute (11/6/07)
Complicated grief: Science (6/27/08), United International Press (6/24/08), Telegraph UK (6/28/08), Times of
India (6/22/08), Thaindian News – Thailand (6/22/08), Hindustan Times – India (6/21/08), Psychology
Today (6/25/08), LA Times (7/7/08), BBC (7/19/08), Newsweek (8/4/08), Washington Post (8/4/08).
Affect labelling: APA Monitor (10/06), Reuters (6/20/07), Scientific American (6/20/07), Daily Telegraph UK
(6/20/07), World News Australia (6/20/07), Zee News – India (6/21/07), Independent – South Africa
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(6/30/07), Spririt India (6/22/07), Self (7/08), Prevention (4/08 or 5/08)
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Thailand (6/5/08), APS Observer (6/08), Ottawa Citizen (7/7/08)
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Los Angeles (5/05), BBC Radio (5/11/05), Forschung Aktuell – German Public Radio (5/05), Wall Street
Journal (5/11/05), New Scientist (5/14/05), WNEP-TV Pennsylvania (6/29/05), Wellcome Science (10/05),
Popular Mechanics (9/07)
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American (10/05), Suddeutsche Zeitung – Germany (3/10/05), Discover Magazine (10/08).
Neural basis of placebo effects: LA Times (2/20/04), CNN television interview (3/24/04), Lancet (3/04), UCLA
Daily Bruin (3/04), Dana Foundation’s Update 2005: A Report on Brain Research (2005)
Affective forecasting: APA Monitor (10/01), Science magazine (1/23/04)
Social Pain. Time magazine (10/13/03), US News & World Report (10/20/03), CNN television interview
(10/10/03), Discovery Channel segment (10/10/03) BBC Radio (10/09/03), BBC News (10/10/03),
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Times (10/11/03), San Francisco Chronicle (10/11/03), Philadelphia Inquirer (10/10/03), Chicago Sun-
Times (10/10/03), Scientific American (10/10/03), Psychology Today (10/17/03), NewScientist (10/18/03),
New York Post (10/10/03), The Guardian (10/10/03 & 10/14/03), The Independent UK (10/10/03), Lancet
(11/03), JAMA (11/03), Cosmopolitan (11/03), Self (4/04), O – The Oprah Magazine (3/04), Men’s
Health Magazine (12/03), Health (11/03), National Geographic: France (11/03), Diagnostic Imaging
(1/04), Neuropsychiatry Reviews (1/04), Life Times (3/04), Bravo Channel segment (2/04), UCLA
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(3/04), Catalyst – Australian science television (9/04), APS Observer (8/04), Elle (11/04), Prevention
(1/05), APS Observer (8/03), The Register UK (2/05), Baltimore Sun (2/10/05), Psychology Today (9/05),
Science magazine (5/12/06), New York Times (10/10/06).
Social cognitive neuroscience: UCLA Today (5/8/01), APS Observer (10/01), APA Monitor (1/02), Trends in
Cognitive Sciences (1/02), Leadership Development News (6/23/08)
TEACHING:
UCLA ProfessorReview (www.bruinwalk.com) - Rated 8 th most effective professor on campus
Student evaluation Mean 8.50 / 9.00 (for the 2002-2003 academic year)
UCLA ProfessorReview (www.bruinwalk.com) - Rated 9 th most recommended professor on campus
Student evaluation Mean 8.56 / 9.00 (for the 2002-2003 academic year)
Psych 135: Intro to Social Psychology, Combined (x9): Mean 8.48 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Fall 2007: Student evaluation Mean 8.52 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Fall 2004: Student evaluation Mean 8.63 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Spring 2004: Student evaluation Mean 8.60 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Winter 2004: Student evaluation Mean 8.47 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Fall 2003: Student evaluation Mean 8.50 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Winter 2003: Student evaluation Mean 8.65 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Fall 2002: Student evaluation Mean 8.37 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Fall 2001: Student evaluation Mean 8.31 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Winter 2001: Student evaluation Mean 8.49 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Winter 2000: Student evaluation Mean 8.29 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
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Psych 191: Honors Thesis Seminar
Fall 2005: Student evaluation Mean 8.35 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Winter 2006: Student evaluation Mean 8.53 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Spring 2006: Student evaluation Mean 8.53 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Fall 2006: Student evaluation Mean 8.75 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Winter 2007: Student evaluation Mean 8.39 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Spring 2007: Student evaluation Mean 8.72 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Fall 2007: Student evaluation Mean 8.92 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Winter 2008: Student evaluation Mean 9.00 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Psych 229: Social Cognition
Spring 2006: Student evaluation Mean 8.20 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Spring 2004: Student evaluation Mean 8.69 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Spring 2001: Student evaluation Mean 8.21 / 9.00 Median 8.0 / 9.0
Psych 225: Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Winter 2001, UCLA
Student evaluation Mean 8.40 / 9.00 Median 9.0 / 9.0
Psych 136: Social Psych Methods, Summer 1999, UCLA
Student evaluation Mean 8.47 / 9.00 Median 9.00 / 9.0
Instructor, Fall 1998, Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Harvard University.
Student evaluation 4.87 / 5.00
Lab Course in Social Psychology, 1994-1998, Harvard University.
Head Teaching Fellow, 1996-1999, Social Psychology, Harvard University.
Average Student Evalutation 4.67 / 5.00 (over 4 years)
Instructor, 1994-1997, Departmental Tutorial in Psychology, Harvard University.
Average Student Evaluation 4.85/ 5.00 (over 3 years)
SERVICE
Current
New Faculty Orientation Panel, Academic Senate, UCLA, 2008
Undergraduate Studies Committee, UCLA, 2005-2007
Quality of Graduate Education Committee, UCLA, 2005-2007
Ad-hoc committee to hire Chief Administrative Officer, UCLA, 2006
Social Psychology Graduate Admissions Committee (Co-Chair), 2005-2007, UCLA
Social Area Website Committee (Chair), UCLA, 2004-2007
Colloquium Committee, UCLA, 2004-2006
PGSA Faculty Liason, UCLA, 2004-2006
Website and Computerization Committee, UCLA, 2004-2007
Psychology 251 Course Coordinator, Department of Psychology, 2002-2007, UCLA
Psychology Functional Neuroimaging Core Committee, 2000-2007, UCLA
Graduate Student Awards Committee (Chair), 2005-2007, UCLA
Social and Affective Neuroscience Conference Organizing Committee, 2007-2008
Previous Service
SPSP Publication Task Force, Member, 2007-2008
Executive Committee, Department of Psychology, 2002-2005, UCLA
Graduate Student Awards Committee, 2003-2005, UCLA
Social Cognition Search Committee, UCLA, 2004-2005
Social Area Graduate Admissions Committee (Chair), 2002-2004, UCLA
Social Psychology Graduate Recruitment Committee (Co-Chair), 2000-2002, UCLA
Merit Review Committee, 2003-2004, UCLA
Social Area Dissertation Award Committee, 2002-2003, UCLA
Ad hoc interviewer for undergraduate admissions, 2002-2003, Harvard University
PROPS Selection Committee, Department of Psychology, 2002-2003, UCLA
Committee on Ceremonies & Special Events (Chair), 2002-2003, UCLA
Cogntive Neuroscience Search Committee, 2000-2001, UCLA
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Education Committee, Center for Culture, Brain, & Development, UCLA, 2001-2003
Social Psychology Colloquium Committee, 2000-2003, UCLA
Computerization Steering Committee, 2000-2003, UCLA
Academic Senate, 2000-2003, UCLA
Social Psychology Graduate Admissions Committee, 2000-2002, UCLA
Co-organized the psychology department’s first subject pool, 1994-1995, Harvard University.
Assistant Senior Tutor, 1998-1999, Cabot House, Harvard University.
Resident tutor, 1995-1999, Cabot House, Harvard University.
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