Jan 28, 2020 | Anthropomorphism, Articles about the lab, Awards, Conferences, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, essentialism, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Presentations, Publications, race, Science Education
Several projects from the CORE Lab were accepted to Boston’s 2020 Eastern Psychological Association Conference this upcoming March at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. EPA is one of the oldest psychological associations in the United States and their main goal is to...
Dec 12, 2019 | Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Michal Fux, Psychology Department
The CORE Lab recently competed at the first ever College of Science Team Trivia night under the very excellent team name of Collection of Rad Experimenters, or CORE for short. To help keep the playing field even, none of the questions were related to science or math....
Dec 4, 2019 | Collaborators, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Intuitive Biology, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Michal Fux, Nicole Betz, Publications, Science Education
Several members of the CORE Lab, namely Dr. Nicole Betz (now a postdoctoral researcher at Yale), Jessica Leffers, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Dr. Michal Fux, and Dr. Coley, recently published a study with collaborators Dr. Kristin de Nesnera in the Department of Biology at...
Nov 26, 2019 | Awards, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, essentialism, Grant, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Uncategorized
The current lab coordinator, Lucretia Henriquez, was recently selected for the Summit Award, which provides up to $3000 for a semester-long research or creative project in conjunction with a faculty mentor. Lucretia’s award will be used for a study about the...
Nov 18, 2019 | Alumni, Collaborators, Conferences, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, essentialism, Facial recognition, Intuitive Biology, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Michal Fux
Several members of the CORE Lab recently travelled to Louisville, Kentucky, to present posters at the Cognitive Development Society’s biennial conference. Dr. Coley presented a poster with Dr. Imac Zambrana of the University of Oslo about preschoolers’ free play with...
Jun 20, 2019 | Collaborators, Conferences, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Michal Fux, Nicole Betz, Science Education, Yian Xu
June 6-9 , members of the CORE Lab presented at SARMAC XIII (the meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition) that took place in Cape Cod. Their symposium, “Exploring the Role of Intuitive Beliefs in the Way People Learn About and Understand...