Jon Freeman (academic)

Jonathan (Jon) B. Freeman is an American psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University. He is best known for his work on person perception and social cognition, as well as for his work on mouse-tracking methodology in cognitive science. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying split-second social judgments and their impact on behaviour.

Jon B. Freeman
Alma materNew York University
Tufts University
Scientific career
InstitutionsDartmouth College
New York University

Early life and education

Freeman received his BA from New York University in 2007, where he first studied social psychology.[1] He earned his PhD at Tufts University in 2012, where he worked with Nalini Ambady.

Research and career

After his doctorate, Freeman joined the faculty of Dartmouth College as an Assistant Professor.[2][3] He moved to New York University as an Assistant Professor in 2014, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018.[4] He directs the Social Cognitive and Neural Sciences Lab.[5] His research combines behavioural paradigms with computational modelling and human neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging.[1]

Broadly, Freeman investigates how we form social judgments and first impressions. In particular, his work has shown that, because facial cues are often complex and ambiguous, multiple “partial” perceptions must initially compete over fractions of a second. This dynamic competition is argued to be central to the ability to form social judgments.[4] His research has proposed flexible interplay between social cognition and visual perception, and has shown that stereotypes and other kinds of social or emotional knowledge can affect visual processing.[6][7] An example is how stereotypes become expectations that impact visual prototypes and create distortions in how faces are perceived.[8] His research has demonstrated that tacit assumptions about social groups, emotions, or personality can all influence the way we perceive faces.[9][10][11][12]

Freeman studies several other topics in social neuroscience related to social cognition, emotion, and decision-making.[5] For instance, he has examined mechanisms of bias learning and change, face perception outside conscious awareness, and the impact of split-second judgments on real-world outcomes.[13][14]

Freeman developed MouseTracker, a software that tracks decision-making in the brain by analysing the trajectory of a human subject’s hand movement via a mouse cursor.[15] It allows researchers to assess real-time processing in cognitive tasks.[16] MouseTracker is used by over 3,000 researchers in several different disciplines.[17] Freeman's work has helped establish and popularise the mouse-tracking technique in cognitive science.[18][19][20]

Freeman is on the editorial board of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.[21]

Advocacy and academic service

Freeman wrote a commentary for Nature about how implicit bias hinders the careers of LGBT people in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and yet this group is often left out of diversity initiatives.[22] He identified that LGBT people in STEM are less represented than expected, reporting negative workplace experiences, and leaving STEM fields at a high rate.[22] Realising the importance of comprehensive data, he led a collaborative effort with the support of 17 scientific organisations asking the National Science Foundation to include questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in their national STEM workforce surveys.[23] LGBT data from these surveys is critical for researchers and policymakers to be able to understand and address potential disparities and disadvantages of LGBT people in U.S. STEM fields. The National Science Foundation is currently piloting these questions for future surveys.[24]

Awards

2019 LGBT Scientist of the Year, National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals[23]

2019 Association for Psychological Science Janet T. Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions[25]

2017 Society for Social Neuroscience Early Career Award

2017 National Science Foundation CAREER Award[26]

2016 Innovation Award, Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

2016 Early Career Award, International Social Cognition Network[27]

2016 SAGE Young Scholar Award, Foundation for Personality & Social Psychology

2015 Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science[28]

2015 Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30[29]

2014 Pacific Standard Magazine’s Top 30 Thinkers Under 30[3]

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References
  1. "Spotlight on Social Neuroscience | SPSP". spsp.org. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  2. "Neurotree - Jon Freeman". neurotree.org. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  3. Andrews, Avital. "The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: Jon Freeman, 27, Psychology". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  4. "Jonathan B Freeman". as.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  5. "Freeman Lab". NYU. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  6. Freeman, Jonathan B.; Johnson, Kerri L. (2016). "More Than Meets the Eye: Split-Second Social Perception". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 20 (5): 362–374. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.03.003. ISSN 1364-6613. PMC 5538856. PMID 27050834.
  7. Freeman, Jonathan B.; Ambady, Nalini (2011). "A dynamic interactive theory of person construal". Psychological Review. 118 (2): 247–279. doi:10.1037/a0022327. ISSN 1939-1471. PMID 21355661.
  8. Brooks, Jeffrey A.; Stolier, Ryan M.; Freeman, Jonathan B. (2018). "Stereotypes Bias Visual Prototypes for Sex and Emotion Categories". Social Cognition. 36 (5): 481–493. doi:10.1521/soco.2018.36.5.481. ISSN 0278-016X.
  9. Freeman, Jonathan B; Stolier, Ryan M; Brooks, Jeffrey A; Stillerman, Benjamin S (December 2018). "The neural representational geometry of social perception". Current Opinion in Psychology. 24: 83–91. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.10.003. PMC 6377247. PMID 30388494.
  10. Freeman, Jonathan B.; Walker, Mirella; Keller, Matthias D.; Hehman, Eric; Stolier, Ryan M. (2018-09-11). "The conceptual structure of face impressions". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (37): 9210–9215. doi:10.1073/pnas.1807222115. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 6140507. PMID 30139918.
  11. Barachant, Alexandre; King, Jean-Remi (2017-12-13). "Riemannian Geometry Boosts Representational Similarity Analyses of Dense Neural Time Series". doi:10.1101/232710. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. "How we judge personality from faces depends on our beliefs about how personality works". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  13. Hehman, Eric; Carpinella, Colleen M.; Johnson, Kerri L.; Leitner, Jordan B.; Freeman, Jonathan B. (September 2014). "Early Processing of Gendered Facial Cues Predicts the Electoral Success of Female Politicians". Social Psychological and Personality Science. 5 (7): 815–824. doi:10.1177/1948550614534701. ISSN 1948-5506.
  14. Freeman, J. B.; Stolier, R. M.; Ingbretsen, Z. A.; Hehman, E. A. (2014-08-06). "Amygdala Responsivity to High-Level Social Information from Unseen Faces". Journal of Neuroscience. 34 (32): 10573–10581. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5063-13.2014. ISSN 0270-6474.
  15. "MouseTracker | Jon Freeman". MouseTracker. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  16. Freeman, Jonathan B.; Ambady, Nalini (2010). "MouseTracker: Software for studying real-time mental processing using a computer mouse-tracking method". Behavior Research Methods. 42 (1): 226–241. doi:10.3758/brm.42.1.226. ISSN 1554-351X.
  17. "User Base". MouseTracker. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  18. Faulkenberry, Thomas J.; Witte, Matthias; Hartmann, Matthias (2018-03-20). "Tracking the continuous dynamics of numerical processing: A brief review and editorial" (PDF). doi:10.31234/osf.io/pruz7. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  19. Freeman, Jonathan B.; Dale, Rick (2012-07-18). "Assessing bimodality to detect the presence of a dual cognitive process". Behavior Research Methods. 45 (1): 83–97. doi:10.3758/s13428-012-0225-x. ISSN 1554-3528. PMID 22806703.
  20. Freeman, Jonathan B. (2018). "SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 27 (5): 315–323. doi:10.1177/0963721417746793. PMC 6301007. PMID 30581254.
  21. "Editorial Board | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience | Oxford Academic". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  22. Freeman, Jon (July 2018). "LGBTQ scientists are still left out". Nature. 559 (7712): 27–28. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05587-y. PMID 29968839.
  23. "2019-02-04: NOGLSTP Recognizes Chan, Morales, and Freeman as LGBTQ+ Educator, Engineer, and Scientist of the Year for 2019, Esposito is Walt Westman Awardee – NOGLSTP". Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  24. LanginNov. 7, Katie; 2018; Pm, 2:45 (2018-11-07). "NSF moves to pilot LGBT questions on national workforce surveys". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2019-02-15.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  25. "APS Awards and Honors". Association for Psychological Science. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  26. "NSF Award Search: Award#1654731 - CAREER: Neural Mechanisms of Stereotypic Vision". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  27. "About - Jon Freeman". Jon Freeman. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  28. "NYU Psychology Awards and Honors". NYU. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  29. "Jon Freeman, 28". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
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