CORE Lab and Collaborators Publish Paper on Construal-Consistent Instructor Language
Several members of the CORE Lab, namely Dr. Nicole Betz (now a postdoctoral researcher at Yale), Jessica Leffers, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Dr. Michal Fux, and Dr. Coley, recently published a study with collaborators Dr. Kristin de Nesnera in the Department of Biology at...
Lucretia Henriquez Receives PEAK Award
The current lab coordinator, Lucretia Henriquez, was recently selected for the Summit Award, which provides up to $3000 for a semester-long research or creative project in conjunction with a faculty mentor. Lucretia’s award will be used for a study about the...
The CORE Lab Visits Louisville
Several members of the CORE Lab recently travelled to Louisville, Kentucky, to present posters at the Cognitive Development Society’s biennial conference. Dr. Coley presented a poster with Dr. Imac Zambrana of the University of Oslo about preschoolers’ free play with...
CORE Lab Alum Sam Goldman Publishes Paper
A former member of the CORE Lab, Sam Goldman, recently published a paper titled “Into the Fire: Using Process to Teach Undergraduate Clinical Psychology” in the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society Journal on her experience with leading group therapy with Dr. William...
CORE Lab Strikes Against Climate Change
Last Friday, a cohort of CORE Lab researchers went to the climate strike demonstrations in downtown Boston. Thousands of students, educators, and others attended the rally at City Hall Plaza and then marched to the Massachusetts State House, where demonstrations...
Congratulations Dr. Xu!
After five years of hard work and dedication in the CORE Lab, our own Yian Xu became Dr. Yian Xu, PhD! Last Thursday, she presented her dissertation on “Psychological Essentialism in Legal and Clinical Decision-Making,” which focused on the downstream consequences of...
The CORE Lab Travels to Belfast
Members of the CORE Lab recently presented at the International Conference on Learning held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. As a group, Dr. John Coley, Dr. Michal Fux, Dr. Nicole Betz, and Emily Dahlgaard Thor from the CORE Lab, along with Lauren Swiney of Warwick...
Congratulations, Dr. Betz!
This Tuesday, June 18th, the CORE Lab’s very own Nicole Betz transformed into Dr. Nicole Betz, Ph.D.! (We’re pretty sure her essence is unchanged, though.) She presented her dissertation on “Anthropic Thinking about Global Climate Change,” a topic that was relatively...
The CORE Lab takes Cape Cod!
June 6-9 , members of the CORE Lab presented at SARMAC XIII (the meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition) that took place in Cape Cod. Their symposium, “Exploring the Role of Intuitive Beliefs in the Way People Learn About and Understand...
New Collaboration with Tuft’s Center for Translational Science Education
This summer, the CORE Lab has begun an exciting new project with the Center for Translational Science Education at Tufts Medical School. The team at the CTSE strives to mitigate the knowledge gap between science researchers and teachers who are educating high school...