Apr 27, 2023 | Anthropomorphism, Articles about the lab, Catie Nielson, Conferences, Education, Joan Kim, John Coley, Presentations, Psychology Department, Undergraduates
The CORE Lab had a great showing at Northeastern’s 2023 Research and Creative Endeavor, Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship Expo (RISE). This was a great opportunity for our undergraduates to design posters and talk about what they have been working on...
Feb 22, 2023 | Anthropomorphism, Articles about the lab, Collaborators, Education, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Science Education
This past Thursday, Catie Nielson, 6th-year graduate student in the CORE Lab, visited a biology class at Queensborough Community College (QCC) to collect data about biology students. More specifically, Catie, in collaboration with Regina Sullivan, an Associate...
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...