Between Soccer and Research: Leading a Double Life
Working in a lab is no easy job (all-consuming in fact), but our extraordinary research assistants prove to us every year that, with passion, you can manage to be an exceptional scientist as well as an incredible dancer, photographer, musician or soccer player. I met...
Four Weeks in London!
Over the summer, three amazing CORE Lab team members, Eliza Grossman, Julia Tracy and Hunter Coury, had the opportunity to visit London for a Psychology Dialogue. They had an enriching experience where they were immersed in the psychology field, from lectures, to...
Data Collection is Finished!
Fourth year graduate student, Nicole Betz, has been collecting data for an exciting study regarding anthropocentrism in Omnivores and Vegetarians. Anthropocentrism is the tendency to reason about animals by analogy to humans, or assigning human characteristics and...
Welcome Back!
A new academic year has started and our amazing research assistants are back filling our corridors! We’d love to welcome our returning students and the new students that are joining our team this semester! We are very excited to be working on a wide variety of studies...
CORE Lab Summit
Last week, the CORE lab grad students, postdoctoral researcher, lab coordinator, and Dr. Coley, had two entire days devoted to a research summit. The purpose of the summit was to continue discussions surrounding theoretical and operational definitions for important...
What’s cooking?… A New Study in Ecology and Intuitive Learning!
Throughout this summer, the CORE Lab had the privilege of working in collaboration with the Russell J. Call Children's Center at Northeastern University to interview children for a new project dealing with intuitive ecological learning! Read more about the project...
Rebecca Lange visits the CORE Lab!
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...
Science in the South End: Many thanks to Club 48 for being a part of our research!
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...
Dr. Coley and Doctoral Student Yian Xu tell us about their recent visit with our collaborators in China
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...
Nicole Betz and Emily Dahlgaard Thor Awarded Graduate Research Grants
Congratulations to fourth year PhD candidate Nicole Betz and first year PhD candidate Emily Dahlgaard Thor for each receiving graduate research grants! Nicole Betz was awarded a Graduate Dissertation Research Grant jointly by the Office of the Provost, the Graduate...