We study implicit social cognition.

 

That is, the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that occur relatively spontaneously, unintentionally, and often outside of conscious awareness. One of our primary interests is in understanding the formation and change of implicit evaluations: rapid and unintentional evaluations of people, groups or objects that occur within a fraction of a second and that often differ from our more conscious, deliberately-held attitudes.

When meeting someone for the first time, how quickly does one develop a first impression of him or her? And once formed, what would it take to overturn it -- that is, what kinds of information can result in their rapid reversal?

The ICE Lab is directed by Jeremy Cone in the Psychology department at Williams College

 
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The Lab (Fall 2019)

 

Lab News

Now out in Psychological Science: Cone, J., Flaharty, K., & Ferguson, M.J. (in press) “The long-term effects of evidence on implicit impressions of other people.” Congrats to Katie on her second publication!

01.12.2021

 

Now out in SPPS: Cone, J., Brown-Iannuzzi, J., Lei, R., & Dotsch, R. (in press) “Type I error is inflated in the two-phase reverse correlation procedure.

08.06.2020

 

Congratulations to lab alum Ananya Mayukha who has just had her senior honors thesis accepted at JEP:G. Lab alum Isabel Andrade is a second author: “Opposing contributions of psychologically distinct components of empathy to empathic accuracy.”

Another paper also accepted today at PSPB, co-authored with Jimmy Calanchini: “A process dissociation model of implicit rapid revision in response to diagnostic revelations.”

03.06.2020

 

01.06.2020

 

Congratulations to Jane Dai ‘17, who has had her manuscript based on her honors thesis work accepted for publication: Dai, J., Cone, J., & Moher, J. (in press). Perceptual salience influences food choices independently of health and taste preferences. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

12.18.2019

 

Prof. Cone will be giving a talk as part of the SciTech Cafe speaker series in Northampton on Monday, December 2, on “Forming impressions of others in the era of fake news, social media, & gossip.” The talk begins at 6pm and is free and open to the public.

11.26.2019

 

Check out our new op-ed published at CNN Business which summarizes some of the findings in our new PNAS paper on the effects of believability on implicit cognition: “In the war against misinformation, fact-checking works. Big Tech needs to do more of it.

05.28.2019

 

New paper co-authored with Kathryn Flaharty & Melissa Ferguson is now out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “Believability of evidence matters for correcting social impressions.” Congratulations to Katie on her first publication!

04.29.2019

 

Congratulations to Eva on her new paper out in Social Psychological and Personality Science: “Matters Order: The Role of Information Order on Implicit Impression Formation

04.19.2019

 

Congrats to the following lab alums starting the next chapters of their academic careers in the Fall: Isabel Andrade ‘18, who will be starting an MA in Education / MBA at Stanford; Gabby Gauthier ‘17, who will be starting her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Washington; and Emily Roach ‘16, who will be pursuing her Masters degree in Education at Hunter College.

04.18.2019

 

New paper co-authored with Pieter Van Dessel, Anne Gast, & Jan De Houwer out in Cognition & Emotion: “The impact of valenced verbal information on implicit and explicit evaluation: the role of information diagnosticity, primacy, and memory cueing

03.09.2019

 

Congratulations to lab alum, Eva Fourakis, who has been awarded Stanford’s prestigious Knight-Hennessy fellowship to pursue a law degree at Stanford in the Fall. See here for a press release from Williams.

03.05.2019

 

New paper co-authored with Tom Mann, Brianna Heggeseth, & Melissa Ferguson out at Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: “Updating implicit impressions: New evidence on intentionality and the affect misattribution procedure

02.26.2019

 

Congratulations to Katie Flaharty, who has won the Williams College Psychology Department’s G. Stanley Hall prize for the honors thesis work she did in the ICE lab, entitled “Face It, Actions Matter: How Visual Cues and Behavioral Information Interact to Influence Visual Representations of a Person’s Face.” And congrats to Michael Ding, who has won the Arthur B. Graves Prize for his independent study work in Economics.

05.15.2018

 

08.31.2017

Our new chapter just came out in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. Check it out for a good summary of our current thinking on rapid implicit evaluative change.

 

Congratulations to the first cohort of thesis students to graduate from the ICE Lab! Gabby Gauthier started a position at the National Center for PTSD; Ananya Mayukha was awarded a prestigious $30,000 Chandler Memorial fellowship to pursue an independent research project on "Stories About Strangers: Collecting and Creating Moments of Human Connection"; and Benjamin Lin started a position at Horizon Media in NYC.

05.13.2017


 

Interested in joining the lab?

If you're a Williams student interested in getting involved in the lab, feel free to drop by Prof. Cone's office, PSYC113 or send us a note using the link below.