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Greta Munger is Professor of Psychology at Davidson College whose works include The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions. Dave Munger is co-founder and president of ResearchBlogging.org and a writer whose works include Researching Online. And yes, he is married to Greta.
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March 31, 2005
Category: Development / Aging • Research
Early childhood education can often seem like one of the most over-researched fields imaginable. So many parents are so concerned with the fate of their progeny, that it's natural for research to focus on more effective ways to teach kids....
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:03 PM • 7 Comments
March 30, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Psychologists and neuroscientists can be said to be working on the same problem, but they tend to approach it from opposite directions. Psychologists generally look at behavior and then try to understand the mental processes that might cause that behavior....
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:03 PM • 2 Comments
March 28, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
The NCAA basketball tournament is down to the wire now, with only four teams left. How will the players respond? Will they be able to perform under the incredible pressure from the other teams, the coaches, and most of all,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:03 AM • 4 Comments
March 24, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
When we look at a scene, it often seems as if we perceive it all at once. Yet in fact, we are physically able to accurately view only a tiny portion of the scene at a time. Take a look...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:03 PM • 1 Comments
March 23, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
When you look at a picture, you are probably generally focused on the central objects, though the overall style might catch your eye. But what about your memory for the background of the picture? Put another way, how accurate are...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:03 PM • 1 Comments
March 21, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Have you ever noticed that when you drive by a car whose hazard lights are blinking, something doesn't look quite right? You know those blinking hazard lights are really on the car, but they seem off, somehow. Part of what...
Posted by Greta Munger at 11:03 AM • 5 Comments
March 18, 2005
Language researchers have long relied on participants suffering from language disorders as a means to better understand how language develops in healthy people. A new special issue of Applied Psycholinguistics covers the study of mental disorders that affect language development....
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:03 PM • 2 Comments
March 16, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
I've taken only two pictures of the Mona Lisa, and both turned out about the same: they captured the frenzied attempts of dozens of tourists trying to take a picture of the most-recognized image in the world. Here's the one...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:03 PM • 1 Comments
March 15, 2005
A few weeks ago, an article appeared in my local newspaper. According to the article, many mothers were beginning to teach their kids sign language, starting at a very young age. Both kids and parents had perfect hearing, but the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:03 PM • 3 Comments
March 14, 2005
With every new generation of violent video game, there seems to be a new outcry about the damage it may be doing to young minds. Yet there has been comparatively little research detailing exactly how video game violence actually corresponds...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:03 PM • 19 Comments
March 10, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
About two weeks ago I engaged in a seemingly pointless exercise in male bonding: I played 24 hours of video games with my son. It turns out, even aside from perfecting my guacamole recipe, the experience may have done me...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:03 PM • 14 Comments
March 9, 2005
Category: Development / Aging • Research • Social
Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke, You gotta understand, It's just our bringin' up-ke That gets us out of hand. Our mothers all are lawyers, Our dads are CEOs. Golly Moses, natcherly we're punks! Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein wrote "Officer Krupke"...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:03 AM • 5 Comments
March 8, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Have you ever played around with point-light displays? If not, take a few moments to explore the amazing site I've linked. Through these simple animated displays, we can detect gender, emotion, even species. Point-light displays have been studied for decades...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:03 PM • 4 Comments
March 4, 2005
Category: Attention • Research • Social
The world of someone who has a psychological disorder is different from the world of a healthy person. For example, someone suffering from clinical anxiety will notice threatening stimuli sooner, and an alcoholic will perceive alcohol-related images quicker than healthy...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:03 AM • 10 Comments
March 2, 2005
Category: Attention • Perception • Research
Take a look at the following movie (quicktime required). The movie will alternately flash a picture of a desk and a patterned block. Your job is to see if anything about the picture of the desk changes each time it...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:03 PM • 2 Comments
March 1, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
When you were a child, did you ever bend over and look between your legs to see what the world looked like upside down? If you were like me, you were disappointed: for me, anyways, the world didn't look as...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:03 PM • 1 Comments
