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The Development Belief Network Funds CORE Lab and Collaborators

by John | 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...

CORE Lab’s collaborative project funded by NSF, studying anthropocentric thinking and its impact on learning and teaching biology

by John | Sep 25, 2020 | Education, Grant, Intuitive Biology, Science Education

Last month, CORE Lab, and the Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory (SEPAL) at San Francisco State University were granted funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the EHR Core Research (ECR) program, on their collaborative project on...

CORE Lab’s collaborative COVID-19 project funded by NSF

by John | Jul 17, 2020 | Articles about the lab, Collaborators, Education, essentialism, Grant, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Publications, Science Education

Recently, CORE Lab, the Child Cognition Lab at Boston University, and Samuel Ronfard at the University of Toronto are collaborating on a COVID-19 research project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).  NSF has previously funded projects in our lab to study...

Congratulations Kaila for an awesome presentation: Mind Over Matter

by John | 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...

Jessica Leffers Awarded Graduate Research Grant

by John | Dec 16, 2017 | Awards, essentialism, Facial recognition, Jess Leffers, race

Congratulations to second year doctoral student Jess Leffers, who was awarded a Graduate Thesis/Dissertation Research Grant jointly by the Office of the Provost, the Graduate Student Government, and the College of Science. This award will provide Jess with $1500 to...

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