Dr. Berri Jacque visits the CORE Lab!
At the end of last semester, we had the honour of being visited by Dr. Berri Jacque at one of our CORE Lab weekly meetings. Dr. Jacque is an Associate Professor at Tufts Medical School and the Director of the Center for Translational Science Education at Tufts...
Nicole Pochinki is Winning at Science!
Nicole Pochinki--CORE Lab researcher and former Coop Research Coordinator--is cleaning up in terms of research honors and awards. She is the recipient of the Paul and Grace Ward Martinez (’48) Research Fellowship from the Psychology Department, and has also earned an...
Dr. Coley Visits University of Oslo
At the end of the Fall 2018 semester, Dr. Coley made a whirlwind visit to Norway, where he gave a talk on CORE Lab research on Intuitive Biological Thinking and Science Education, spend many enjoyable hours working with good friend and CORE Lab collaborator Dr. Imac...
The CORE Lab at the Psychonomics Society Annual Meeting
Dr. John Coley, together with CORE Lab graduate students Yian Xu and Jessica Leffers travelled to New Orleans for the 59th Psychonomics Society annual meeting. The psychonomics society is a professional organization of cognitive psychologists. Members are cognitive...
CORE Lab RAs Win Second Place at the NCHC Conference!
Kristhy Bartels and Allyson Lowitz presented at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, an annual conference for honors students where hundreds of students presented their research and innovations to professors from all around the country. This year, the...
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...