May 19, 2021 | Articles about the lab, Awards, Jess Leffers, Psychology Department, Publications
On April 22nd, Jessica Leffers, 5th year graduate student in the CORE Lab, received the Dean’s Graduate Student Excellence Award in Teaching from the College of Science. She has excelled throughout her five years and has made valuable contributions to the Psychology...
Apr 12, 2021 | Articles about the lab, essentialism, Facial recognition, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Psychology Department, Publications, race
This past February, Jessica Leffers, fifth year doctoral student in the CORE Lab, published her work in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Her work examined the role of culture in racial essentialism – the belief that members racial...
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...
Feb 25, 2021 | Alumni, Articles about the lab, Collaborators, essentialism, John Coley, Psychology Department, Publications, Uncategorized, Yian Xu
Recently, Yian Xu, PhD, a former doctorate student in the CORE Lab and current postdoctoral researcher at New York University, Xuan Li, from NYU Shanghai, and Dr. John D Coley, the principal investigator of the CORE Lab, published a study in the Asian Journal of...
Jul 17, 2020 | Articles about the lab, Collaborators, Education, essentialism, Grant, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Publications, Science Education
Recently, CORE Lab, the Child Cognition Lab at Boston University, and Samuel Ronfard at the University of Toronto are collaborating on a COVID-19 research project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF has previously funded projects in our lab to study...
Jun 15, 2020 | Articles about the lab, Awards, essentialism, Grant
CORE Lab research assistants Lauryn Lu and Alec Rutherford recently won Northeastern’s Honors Early Research Award. This award is given to undergraduates pursing student initiated research projects. Lauryn and Alec’s project, called Essentialist Thinking...