Apr 7, 2021 | Anthropomorphism, Articles about the lab, Awards, essentialism, Publications
Recently, Shrreya Aagarwal, an undergraduate Research Assistant in the CORE Lab, received two awards to fund her research curiosities. The two grants that Shrreya received are the Honors Propel Grant and the Peak Summit Award, both of which are funded through...
May 5, 2020 | Alumni, Anthropomorphism, Articles about the lab, Presentations, Psychology Department, Publications
Grace Huang, an undergraduate Research Assistant in the CORE Lab, recently presented the research she conducted as part of her honors thesis to members of the CORE Lab and other faculty. Grace’s research explored the relationship between anthropic, or...
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...
Sep 18, 2018 | Anthropomorphism, Intuitive Biology
Fourth year graduate student, Nicole Betz, has been collecting data for an exciting study regarding anthropocentrism in Omnivores and Vegetarians. Anthropocentrism is the tendency to reason about animals by analogy to humans, or assigning human characteristics and...
Sep 5, 2018 | Anthropomorphism, essentialism, Uncategorized
Last week, the CORE lab grad students, postdoctoral researcher, lab coordinator, and Dr. Coley, had two entire days devoted to a research summit. The purpose of the summit was to continue discussions surrounding theoretical and operational definitions for important...
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...