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...
Representing the CORE Lab at the APS Conference in San Francisco
Over this past Memorial Day weekend, CORE Lab graduate students Nicole Betz, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, and Jessica Leffers, as well as post-doctoral research associate Dr. Michal Fux were fortunate to present their research at the Association of Psychological Science...
RISE Finalist Spotlight: Dehumanizing Language in the Media
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...