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...
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...
Apr 20, 2018 | essentialism, Facial recognition, Jess Leffers, Presentations, Psychology Department, race
PsyClub (Psychology Club) is an on-campus club that hosts meetings once a week for undergraduate students interested and passionate about all things psychology at Northeastern. At one of PsyClub’s most recent meetings on Wednesday April 11th, the CORE Lab’s...
Mar 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dr. Coley’s 2nd year graduate student, Jessica Leffers, presented her masters today at the masters convention! Congratulations Jess on all of your hard work! Jess presented her research on how people think intuitively about social categories, more specifically...