Social Cognitive Neuroscience

Our guest is Dr. Matt Lieberman an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Psychology Department and the co-director of Social Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory. Dr. Lieberman has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University and is a founder of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience field which is generating a lot of interest and new findings that have been in the black box of the brain. He uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to elucidate long-standing issues in social psychology, including models of self and social perception. He is the founding editor of the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. He is working on a book called, Experience Shrugged. We will focus on some of his brain research on how automatic and controlled processes interact in producing emotion and emotion regulation, self-knowledge, feelings of social exclusion, attributions about other individuals, placebo effects and automatic behavior and how we can use this information in leadership deve