Jan 16, 2019 | Awards, Education, essentialism, Fellowships, Grant, Uncategorized
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...
Dec 18, 2018 | Conferences, Ecology, essentialism, Jess Leffers, Yian Xu
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...
Nov 26, 2018 | essentialism, Presentations, race
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...
Oct 30, 2018 | Education, essentialism, Grant, Presentations, Psychology Department
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...
Oct 18, 2018 | essentialism, Publications, Yian Xu
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...