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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 editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. And yes, he is married to Greta.
December 30, 2005
Category: Perception
What is your mind doing when you think about something? For decades, the prevailing wisdom was that when you imagine, say, the scent of a flower or your lover's perfume, your mind is doing something different from when you actually...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:12 AM • 9 Comments •
December 27, 2005
Category: Language
Toddlers learn new words at an astonishing rate—an average, according to Steven Pinker, of over a word every two hours. Yet attempts to drill children to improve vocabulary are often frustrating. Kids seem to learn words better through observing the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:12 PM • 2 Comments •
December 26, 2005
Category: Perception
How do we know when we see a beautiful body? Is it some social standard such as thinness or proportion? Do we simply think that bodies that are closest to "normal" are also most beautiful? We know that to be...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:12 AM • 4 Comments •
December 21, 2005
Category: Social
There is little doubt that the cognitive demands of conversation can affect our awareness of the world around us. Everyone has a story of a near-miss collision with some clueless airhead driving who was jabbering away on the cell phone....
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:12 AM • 7 Comments •
December 19, 2005
Category: Social
We learned from Alas, a Blog that Henry Jenkins has written an essay for PBS about video games, making the case that the public doesn't understand what the games are all about. Normally articles here on Cognitive Daily only report...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:12 PM • 22 Comments •
December 16, 2005
Category: Social
We've written before about how stereotypes can impair performance on math tests: for example, when women are told they are taking a math test for a study about gender differences in math ability, they perform more poorly than men. However,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:12 PM • 7 Comments •
December 14, 2005
Category: Learning and testing
IQ has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands of research studies. Scholars have studied the link between IQ and race, gender, socioeconomic status, even music. Discussions about the relationship between IQ and race and the heritability of IQ...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:12 AM • 37 Comments •
December 13, 2005
Category: Language
Last week we discussed two experiments in a report by Adam Anderson about how the phenomenon of attentional blink is modified when the task includes arousing words. Perhaps not surprisingly, we're more likely to notice arousing words like "ejaculate" or...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:12 PM • 3 Comments •
December 9, 2005
Category: Language
A few months ago, Jon Stewart opened the eyes of his Daily Show audience when he interviewed the author of the book On Bullshit. Viewers accustomed to hearing the familiar bleep when Stewart enters foul-mouth mode were surprised to find...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:12 PM • 4 Comments •
December 6, 2005
Category: Social
Take a look at these graphs: Most bloggers and web designers will find this sort of chart familiar—it's a record of Cognitive Daily's visitor statistics for the month of November. The first graph records the amount of traffic we received...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:12 PM • 11 Comments •
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