CORE Lab Spotlight: Lauren Voso
As CORE lab research coordinator Lauren Voso wraps up her co-op with the lab, we asked her about her experience working for the lab and being part of the research. What is your background and what brought you to this position? I am a Behavioral Neuroscience major and...
Current Research in the CORE Lab: Investigating the Human-Nature Relationship
Imagine the relationship between humans and nature. Do you think this relationship is balanced? What positive or negative impacts can you think of? And how does your perception of this relationship shape how you fit yourself into the natural world? These are the...
CORE Lab Goes to APS in Chicago!
CORE lab graduate students Catie, Joan and Eloise represented the CORE lab at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Convention in Chicago last week. Joan presented a poster on her work on environmental thinking: "Nature in the Balance: Symmetry in perceived...
Current Research in the CORE Lab: Social Disparities Project
How do children view social groups? Does the way in which we teach about social disparities affect the development of prejudice? How long-lasting are the effects of formal education? These questions, and many more, are the focus of CORE lab doctoral student Emma Pitt...
CORE Lab Graduating Seniors!
The CORE lab would like to congratulate the members of our lab who will be graduating this semester. We are thankful for all the hard work and committment our seniors have given to the lab! Good luck with all future endeavors, we know all of you will be doing great...
Poster Presentations in the Lab!
For our last lab meeting of the semester on Friday, all of our undergraduate research assistants and graduate students collaborated to create posters on their research. Each team worked on designing posters that displayed their research plan and preliminary results...
Essentialist Thinking Predicts Culpability and Punishment Judgments
Have you ever been on a jury and had to make decisions about a defendant’s guilt? Have you ever considered how your intuitive biases may have impacted your perceptions of crime? This question was the focus of former CORE lab doc student, Yian Xu, in her research paper...
Kyleigh Leads Lab Meeting on Intuitive Language in Science Classroom
At last week's lab meeting, one of our senior undergraduate research assistants, Kyleigh Watson, led a discussion on intuitive language in the science classroom. The lab engaged in an activity testing our ability to remember information from science articles to think...
The Science of Bad Vibes: Dr. Coley’s Input!
The director of the CORE lab, Dr. John Coley, was recently featured in a Popular Mechanics article: "The Science of Bad Vibes: Can Some Places Really Hold Onto Negative Energy?" The article discusses the science behind feeling “negative energy” in a location that may...
Current Research in the CORE Lab: The Impact of Anthropocentric Thinking in Biology Education
Think about the neuroscience of emotion, an incredibly complex process involving the combination of internal stimuli from the body, external stimuli from surroundings, and past experiences to guide behavior. As you considered this concept, did you think about it in...