Sep 5, 2018 | Anthropomorphism, essentialism, Uncategorized
Last week, the CORE lab grad students, postdoctoral researcher, lab coordinator, and Dr. Coley, had two entire days devoted to a research summit. The purpose of the summit was to continue discussions surrounding theoretical and operational definitions for important...
Aug 2, 2018 | essentialism, Intuitive Biology, Presentations
Last week the lab had the privilege of hearing fourth year graduate student from Tufts University, Rebecca Lange. During the lab’s weekly meeting, Rebecca delighted us with an amazing presentation on her work regarding the development of reasoning about the social...
Jul 26, 2018 | Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Yian Xu
Earlier this summer, second year PhD candidate, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, and CORE Lab research assistants had the privilege of interviewing students at Club 48. Club 48 is an after school program in the South End that promotes the social, cognitive, and emotional...
Jul 19, 2018 | Collaborators, Education, John Coley, Yian Xu
In this interview, Dr. Coley and Yian discuss their recent trip to China. They tell us about their project with our current collaborators, and they comment on their favorite things about the most populated country in the world. What did you do in China? Dr. Coley: We...
May 31, 2018 | Collaborators, Conferences, Intuitive Biology, Science Education
Over this past Memorial Day weekend, CORE Lab graduate students Nicole Betz, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, and Jessica Leffers, as well as post-doctoral research associate Dr. Michal Fux were fortunate to present their research at the Association of Psychological Science...