Jon Freeman

associate professor of psychology and social neuroscientist at @columbia | person perception and social cognition | data equity | 🏳️‍🌈

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

New findings from my lab in Nature Communications, led by DongWon Oh, suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.

Paper: https://t.co/v9sohDBFZ0

(1/6)

[Dan Oh (DongWon) | 오동원 @ohdanieldw]

"The Architecture of Status Perception: Cues, Categories, and Consequences"

Co-chairs: Finneaz Moner, @dongwon_oh
Speakers: Finneaz Moner, Ben (Ming Huang) Teo, Abhinanda Dash (w/ Kerri L Johnson & R. Thora Bjornsdottir), Bastian Weitz (w/ @freemanjb)

Symposium Abstract:

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

The results open a path for new interventions that don’t just target stereotypes but also attempt to recalibrate biased visual perception directly, with the hopes of mitigating such high-stakes misjudgments under stress and uncertainty.

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[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

New findings from my lab in Nature Communications, led by DongWon Oh, suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.

Paper: https://t.co/v9sohDBFZ0

(1/6)

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

While past work has generally assumed such weapon-identification biases involve an accurate perception of the object but then a racially biased impulse that is difficult to control, our findings suggest that part of the problem is a temporary visual distortion as well.

(5/6)

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

Refusing to release the requested data on how these questions performed undermines the Census Bureau’s scientific integrity and prevents accountability when LGBTQ+ communities are left invisible. (4/4)

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

Democracy Forward & I filed a lawsuit against the Census Bureau, seeking the release of data from its testing of sexual orientation & gender identity questions for the nation's most important annual demographic survey, key to upholding LGBTQ+ rights (1/4)

https://t.co/cu8jyb13mY

[Democracy Forward @DemocracyFwd]

We’re suing the Census Bureau to force the release of critical LGBTQ+ data.

Failing to release the data = failing to include LGBTQ+ people from policy decisions impacting health care, housing, employment, education, and more resources.

So we're demanding accountability.

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

Congress allocated $10 million, the Census Bureau tested nearly half a million households, and now the results are being unlawfully suppressed. (3/4)

[The Advocate @TheAdvocateMag]

The information can help in enforcement of civil rights laws, the suit notes. https://t.co/ZiKUQ24G95

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

Been waiting for this post. So thrilled that @LinChujun is joining us this July!

[Chujun Lin 林楚君 @LinChujun]

🥳I am joining Columbia @ColumbiaPSYC July 2025!

Looking for🚨lab managers🚨postdocs🚨grad students! Pls RETWEET🙏

We study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition using experimental, cross-cultural, & computational methods!

App👉https://t.co/P3Q83yh9Ob

More👉https://t.co/nhKEghymTt

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

@dongwon_oh 👏

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

Job alert 🚨

We’re hiring a full-time RA at Columbia starting Fall 2025! The RA will focus on several topics in the lab, including the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying dynamic social perception using fMRI and natural language processing.

Link: https://t.co/qHwCJrKNt9

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

@steverathje2 @Carnegie_Mellon @cmuhcii Congrats!

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

@EricMShuman @UVAPsyc Congrats!

[Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd]

🚨 @mark_ho_ & I are recruiting a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry

💻 Ideal candidates have experience with multi-player web-based experiments & computational cognitive modeling

🔗 https://t.co/c3krmv6c8o

[Diana Tamir @DianaTamir]

📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢

We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought.

More info here: https://t.co/LT0RGiet2U

Please apply and share!

[Dr. Yin Wang @Bruce_Yin_Wang]

Our human relationship project (see the past thread below) has now been officially published in Nature Human Behavior https://t.co/KWCjSZXfcC. The article PDF can be freely download here https://t.co/u2oh7jqPRW. We also wrote a behind-the-paper blog https://t.co/UTwZAFkBti.