Jul 26, 2018 | Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Yian Xu
Earlier this summer, second year PhD candidate, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, and CORE Lab research assistants had the privilege of interviewing students at Club 48. Club 48 is an after school program in the South End that promotes the social, cognitive, and emotional...
Jun 11, 2018 | Anthropomorphism, Awards, Ecology, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Intuitive Biology, Nicole Betz, Psychology Department, Science Education
Congratulations to fourth year PhD candidate Nicole Betz and first year PhD candidate Emily Dahlgaard Thor for each receiving graduate research grants! Nicole Betz was awarded a Graduate Dissertation Research Grant jointly by the Office of the Provost, the Graduate...
May 9, 2018 | Jess Leffers
The graduation celebrations continue here at the CORE Lab after 2nd year doctoral candidate Jessica Leffers was awarded her Masters Degree in Psychology on May 3rd. Congratulations to Jessica and all of the other Northeastern graduates with Masters Degrees in...
Apr 25, 2018 | Articles about the lab, Awards, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Science Education
First year PhD candidate Emily Dahlgaard Thor and her undergraduate research assistants’ poster about metaphor and intuitive cognition in science communications was one of the twenty-five finalists at this year’s Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo (RISE)...
Apr 20, 2018 | essentialism, Facial recognition, Jess Leffers, Presentations, Psychology Department, race
PsyClub (Psychology Club) is an on-campus club that hosts meetings once a week for undergraduate students interested and passionate about all things psychology at Northeastern. At one of PsyClub’s most recent meetings on Wednesday April 11th, the CORE Lab’s...
Mar 9, 2018 | Conferences, Education, essentialism, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Presentations, Uncategorized, Yian Xu
Doctoral Students Yian Xu and Jessica Leffers both presented their work at major conferences this March. Do people essentialize mental disorders? How does essentialist belief relate to causal understanding and treatment decisions in clinical contexts? Yian presented a...