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...
Apr 16, 2020 | Articles about the lab, Conferences, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, essentialism, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Michal Fux, Presentations, Uncategorized
On Thursday April 9, 2020, Northeastern held its annual Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo (RISE). This year, it was held virtually on Microsoft Teams, and all RAs at the CORE Lab did a wonderful job presenting and answering questions about their research. The...
Feb 18, 2020 | Articles about the lab, Collaborators, essentialism, Jess Leffers, Publications, race
As of January 2020, Jessica Leffers, 4th year PhD student in the CORE Lab, is spending a few months in Ireland collecting data and working in Dr. Aidan Feeney’s lab at Queen’s University Belfast. Dr. Feeney is a frequent collaborator of the CORE Lab and...
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...
Nov 26, 2019 | Awards, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, essentialism, Grant, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Uncategorized
The current lab coordinator, Lucretia Henriquez, was recently selected for the Summit Award, which provides up to $3000 for a semester-long research or creative project in conjunction with a faculty mentor. Lucretia’s award will be used for a study about the...
Nov 18, 2019 | Alumni, Collaborators, Conferences, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, essentialism, Facial recognition, Intuitive Biology, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Michal Fux
Several members of the CORE Lab recently travelled to Louisville, Kentucky, to present posters at the Cognitive Development Society’s biennial conference. Dr. Coley presented a poster with Dr. Imac Zambrana of the University of Oslo about preschoolers’ free play with...