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

His wife, Naomi Eisenberger, is a full professor on the UCLA Psychology Department faculty.

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.