JOHN A. BARGH is Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Undergraduate degree from University of Illinois, 1977; Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Michigan, 1981 (advisor: Robert B. Zajonc). From 1981 to 2003, Bargh was on faculty of New York University. His research focuses on automatic or unconscious social information processes, as involved in a variety of phenomena, including motivation and goal pursuit, evaluation and liking, and social behavior. Vita (updated September 2009).

HYUNJIN SONG is a Postdoctoral Associate interested in the interplay between feeling and thinking. Her research has mainly focused on how the feeling of fluency and affect-laden metaphor influences judgments. She is also interested in feelings associated with food choice behaviors and health care decisions. She received her Ph.D. working with Norbert Schwarz at University of Michigan.

EMILY HILL is the ACME lab manager. Other than her work in the ACME Lab, Emily is interested in interpersonal relationships and clinical psychology. She hopes to return to school for a degree in clinical psychology.

JULIE HUANG is a doctoral candidate in the social psychology PhD program. She received her B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the 2008 recipient of the Zimbardo Dissertation Award from the Yale Graduate Program in Social Psychology. Her dissertation research is on goal overgeneralization and the mechanics of nonconscious goal pursuit.

RANDY STEIN is a fourth year student in the social psychology PhD program. He studies nonconscious social influence, theorizing that people have an automatic, default tendency to conform to others. This means that social influence should be strong yet often undetected due to its automatic nature. He also studies how motivations to fit in and stand out affect the direction of priming effects. He received his Bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University.

KAY SCHWADER is a second year graduate student in the social psychology PhD program. She received her B.A. from Harvard University. Her current research investigates the relationship between behavior and beliefs about free will and determinism. She also studies the development of unconscious processes in goal completion and memory. Her other research interests include consciousness, hypnosis, and priming as it relates to health behaviors.

SARAH HAILEY is a second year student in the social psychology PhD program. She received her Bachelors Degree from Northern Arizona University. Her research interests lie in motivation and goal-pursuit as nonconscious phenomena. She is also interested in how metaphor and analogical reasoning may link actual experiences to psychological concepts.

REBECCA DYER is a first year student in the social psychology PhD program. She received her B.A. from Haverford College. Her research interests include social cognition, person perception, and deception.

LILLIA CHERKASSKIY is a second year graduate student in the social/personality psychology PhD program. She received her B.A. from Stanford University. Her research focuses on the relationships between emotions and goals. She investigates this relationship using implicit and explicit measures.

ANDY VONASH is a research assistant interested in the mind-body problem and how the many unconscious, automatic processes interact with volitional processes in the mind to produce our subjective experience of the world. Other interests include behavioral economics, sports, music, and religion. He received his B.A. in psychology and economics from Pomona College.

BRENDAN DILL is a research assistant in the ACME Lab. A Yale undergraduate between his junior and senior years, Brendan is currently taking a year off from classes to sing in the Yale Whiffenpoofs and (more importantly) to work at the ACME Lab. Brendan is particularly interested in researching unconscious influences on moral judgment and behavior

BRIAN EARP is a former ACME Lab manager, and current senior cognitive science major at Yale. His research focuses on the role of automatic stereotype effects in racial differences in academic achievement. He is also interested in philosophy of mind and the lessons of psychology for free will. Former editor of the Yale Philosophy Review, Brian now edits the Yale Review of Undergraduate Research in Psychology with fellow ACME Lab member Sarah Hailey. Brian is also a professional actor and singer.