Oct 18, 2018 | essentialism, Publications, Yian Xu
PhD candidate Yian Xu has recently finished an original manuscript on essentialism and crime. Yian’s research seeks to investigate how people essentialize crime concepts and what might be the consequences of essentialism in legal decision making. She is interested in...
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...
May 18, 2018 | Awards, essentialism, Psychology Department, Yian Xu
Fourth year PhD Candidate Yian Xu and her research assistants’ poster about using mindfulness meditation as an intervention for an essentialist bias was not only one of the twenty-five Research, Innovation, & Scholarship Expo (RISE) finalists, but also won two...
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...