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Jon Freeman
Graduate Student
Tufts University
Psychology Department
490 Boston Ave.
Medford, MA 02155 |
About me
I graduated from New York University in 2007, where I studied
Psychology, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Neural Science, and
worked in the labs of Liz Phelps, Kerri Johnson (now at UCLA), and
Diane Ruble.
My research interests are inspired by multiple
disciplines: social and cognitive psychology, social and cognitive
neuroscience, and cultural studies of gender, sexuality, race,
class, and power. In general, I study the cognitive and neural
processes involved in social perception and person construal. I'm
particularly interested in the dynamics of real-time person
construal--the online changes across those fuzzy and indeterminate
fractions of a second between catching sight of another's face and,
for instance, recognizing that person's sex. My work often
emphasizes the interactivity between the lower-level visual and perceptual
processes driving person construal and the higher-order social
cognition (e.g., stereotypes, social contexts, cultural knowledges)
that constrains and guides these. Thus, for instance, I'm very excited by the
emerging science of "social vision," understanding the human
perceptual system as inherently shaped by top-down social constraints.
Exploiting a variety of methodologies (e.g.,
computer mouse-tracking, fMRI, eye-tracking, response latency, subjective
judgments), my research attempts to shed light on how the mind/brain construes and categorizes others and
then goes about judging,
evaluating, theorizing, and inferring about them. Along the way, it sometimes targets broader questions regarding the format
itself of social cognitive representations in working memory and the
coding and production of social subjective value in the brain. My
work is often guided by insights from a broad range of
fields, from social and cognitive psychology, to neuroscience, to
dynamical cognitive science, and to cultural studies. It's my hope
that this will enhance the overall quality of my research and provide
fruitful investigations into the workings of the social mind/brain.
For more information, please see my
personal
website!
Publications:
Freeman, J.B., Ambady, N., Rule, N.O., & Johnson, K.L.
(in press). Will a category cue attract you? Motor output reveals
dynamic competition across person construal. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General. [read
the paper!]
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