Nov 15, 2018 | Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Presentations
Last week, Emily, a CORE Lab second year PhD student, had the pleasure of forming part of the Linguistics Alumni Panel hosted by the College of Science at Northeastern University. During the panel discussion, several alumni came to campus to talk about their careers...
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...
Aug 2, 2018 | essentialism, Intuitive Biology, Presentations
Last week the lab had the privilege of hearing fourth year graduate student from Tufts University, Rebecca Lange. During the lab’s weekly meeting, Rebecca delighted us with an amazing presentation on her work regarding the development of reasoning about the social...
May 24, 2018 | Awards, Conferences, Presentations
Undergraduate research assistants Samantha Goldman, Kristhy Bartels, Allyson Lowitz, and fourth year graduate student Nicole Betz presented their poster on dehumanizing language in the media at RISE on April 5th. The project was an offshoot of previous research done...
Apr 20, 2018 | essentialism, Facial recognition, Jess Leffers, Presentations, Psychology Department, race
PsyClub (Psychology Club) is an on-campus club that hosts meetings once a week for undergraduate students interested and passionate about all things psychology at Northeastern. At one of PsyClub’s most recent meetings on Wednesday April 11th, the CORE Lab’s...
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...