CORE Lab Members Quest at Boda Borg
This past weekend, members of the CORE Lab went to Boda Borg in Malden, MA. At Boda Borg, teams face a variety of mental and physical challenges and need to complete them in order to succeed. The CORE Lab split into three teams of three people and set out to quest in...
Jessica Leffers Conducts Research in Ireland
As of January 2020, Jessica Leffers, 4th year PhD student in the CORE Lab, is spending a few months in Ireland collecting data and working in Dr. Aidan Feeney's lab at Queen's University Belfast. Dr. Feeney is a frequent collaborator of the CORE Lab and together,...
CORE Lab Projects Accepted to EPA 2020
Several projects from the CORE Lab were accepted to Boston’s 2020 Eastern Psychological Association Conference this upcoming March at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. EPA is one of the oldest psychological associations in the United States and their main goal is to...
Collection of Rad Experimenters Competes at Trivia Night
The CORE Lab recently competed at the first ever College of Science Team Trivia night under the very excellent team name of Collection of Rad Experimenters, or CORE for short. To help keep the playing field even, none of the questions were related to science or math....
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...