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...
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...