John Andrew Bargh

Researched automatic or nonconscious social cognition and presently studies nonconscious influences on cognition, emotion, motivation, and behavior, especially role of automaticity in everyday life. Author of Before You Know It  (2017, Simon & Schuster).  Recent research focuses on metaphoric mind/body influences, such as the influence of physical warmth-holding a warm or cold beverage-on judgments of interpersonal warmth and actual prosocial behavior. Challenges notions of deliberate choice and free will that bear on core issues of human consciousness. Recipient of both the Early Career and the Distinguished Career Contribution Awards from the American Psychological Association, the Scientific Impact Award of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, the Donald T. Campbell Award of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.