Jan 2, 2019 | Collaborators, Ecology, Education, Grant, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Presentations, Uncategorized
At the end of the Fall 2018 semester, Dr. Coley made a whirlwind visit to Norway, where he gave a talk on CORE Lab research on Intuitive Biological Thinking and Science Education, spend many enjoyable hours working with good friend and CORE Lab collaborator Dr. Imac...
Oct 30, 2018 | Education, essentialism, Grant, Presentations, Psychology Department
Last year, Kaila and her collaborators recruited undergraduate students to investigate how essentialism and mindset are related. Mindset is a set of attitudes one possesses. For example, a “fixed mindset” is the belief that someone’s core qualities or traits are fixed...
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...
Jul 19, 2018 | Collaborators, Education, John Coley, Yian Xu
In this interview, Dr. Coley and Yian discuss their recent trip to China. They tell us about their project with our current collaborators, and they comment on their favorite things about the most populated country in the world. What did you do in China? Dr. Coley: We...
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...
Feb 11, 2018 | Education, Intuitive Biology, Presentations, Science Education
On Saturday, 3 Feb, Professor Coley spoke to STEM educators from community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and universities on Intuitive thinking and science education: Biology and beyond at a conference at SUNY Oneonta in upstate New York. The meeting was sponsored...