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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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August 31, 2005
Category: Research • Social • Video Games / Technology
This is an image from the video game Asheron's Call 2 (source: mmorpg.com). Does playing such a game, involving regular practicing (albeit in a virtual environment) of repetitive, violent acts, increase our general level of aggression? A recent article...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:08 PM • 7 Comments
August 30, 2005
Category: Research • Social • Video Games / Technology
Steven Johnson is a writer who I very much admire. I'm particularly impressed by his defense of video games and other technologies in his book Everything Bad is Good For You. However, in defending the good aspects of video games,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:08 PM • 13 Comments
August 29, 2005
Category: Learning and testing • Music • Research
The "Mozart Effect" hit the mainstream media by storm in the mid 1990s, in the form of a bestselling book by the same name. A Google search for the topic still reveals a slew of products designed to exploit the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:08 PM • 7 Comments
August 25, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
The human brain is incredibly specialized. There are individual neurons for recognizing faces, edges of objects, and specific sounds. One fruitful area of research recently has been to determine precisely how specialized the brain really is. Here's one example. The...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:08 PM • 0 Comments
August 24, 2005
Category: General / Site news
Welcome to Tangled Bank—we're thrilled to finally have the opportunity to host. For CogDaily readers who may not be aware of Tangled Bank, it's a fortnightly "carnival" of the best science blog postings from the previous two weeks. There's always...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:08 PM • 5 Comments
August 23, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Perceiving motion creates a fascinating problem for psychologists. Physicists for centuries have devised a whole set of rules describing how objects actually move. These rules are so precise and accurate that it's tempting to say that the human perceptual system...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:08 AM • 3 Comments
August 22, 2005
Category: General / Site news
This Wednesday, we'll be hosting Tangled Bank, a nifty collection of the best science blog postings for the last two weeks. If you've got a science blog—or any kind of a blog, actually, consider yourself invited to submit! Just pick...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:08 PM • 0 Comments
August 15, 2005
Category: Development / Aging • Perception • Research
One of Jean Piaget's most famous observations is the phenomenon of "object permanence"—the idea that babies younger than eight months old have no conception of an object once it's hidden from view. It's easy to see how he came to...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:08 AM • 5 Comments
August 11, 2005
Category: Development / Aging • Research • Social
It happens to everyone. You open a present and find a gift of so little personal interest that you wonder if you got the wrong package. The classic may be clothes presented to a preschooler; who can expect a 3...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:08 AM • 0 Comments
August 8, 2005
Category: Development / Aging • Learning and testing • Research • Social
"Boys are better at math" is a stereotype decades in the making, and it has in some cases been borne out by testing measures such as the SAT. The stereotype has been around so long that many wonder whether the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:08 AM • 3 Comments
August 4, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Rummaging through your bag in search of keys, it's clear that you can recognize objects using just your fingers. But is it easier to recognize the keys if you feel them as if you were going to open to door,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:08 AM • 0 Comments
August 1, 2005
Category: Memory • Research • Social
In every courtroom drama, the most dramatic scene is always when the star witness points her finger at the villain and proclaims that "he did it!" The confidence with which an eyewitness describes the perpetrator of a crime is often...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:08 AM • 2 Comments
