Apr 12, 2021 | Articles about the lab, essentialism, Facial recognition, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Psychology Department, Publications, race
This past February, Jessica Leffers, fifth year doctoral student in the CORE Lab, published her work in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Her work examined the role of culture in racial essentialism – the belief that members racial...
Dec 17, 2020 | Collaborators, Education, essentialism, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Nicole Betz, Publications, Science Education
Recently, Nicole Betz, Ph.D., a former doctorate student candidate in CORE Lab and current postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, and Dr. John Coley, the principal investigator of CORE Lab published a study in Frontiers in Psychology, examining how developmental...
Oct 9, 2020 | Collaborators, essentialism, Grant
The CORE Lab, in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast (QUD) and University College Dublin (UCD), has recently received funding from the Development Belief Network for a project investigating religion in Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland...
Jun 15, 2020 | Articles about the lab, Awards, essentialism, Grant
CORE Lab research assistants Lauryn Lu and Alec Rutherford recently won Northeastern’s Honors Early Research Award. This award is given to undergraduates pursing student initiated research projects. Lauryn and Alec’s project, called Essentialist Thinking...
Feb 18, 2020 | Articles about the lab, Collaborators, essentialism, Jess Leffers, Publications, race
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...