Dr. Tara Mandalaywala speaks at the CORE Lab!
Dr. Tara Mandalaywala visited the CORE Lab to present during our weekly lab meeting where she talked about her research on psychological essentialism and racial prejudice. Dr. Mandalaywala is a principal investigator and assistant professor at the University of...
Emily Dahlgaard Thor speaks on NU Linguistics Alumni Panel
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...
Congratulations Kaila for an awesome presentation: Mind Over Matter
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...
CORE Lab Hangout: Go Huskies!
Any person that steps foot in our lab can testify that our incredible and hardworking team is more than just a group of colleagues: we are an enormous family, and we love to get together and enjoy an off-site hang with one another. Last Thursday, we gathered at the...
Essentialism and Criminality
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...
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...