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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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May 31, 2006
Category: Opinion
Courtney Martin makes an interesting argument about the phenomenon she calls The Paradox of the Perfect Girl. It's the result of the recent upsurge of girls outperforming boys academically: The perfect girl is everywhere. She is your niece, your daughter,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:34 PM • 6 Comments
Category: News
Roy Behrens has created a fascinating site analyzing the relationship between Gestalt psychology, cubism, and camoflage used on ships in World War I. In recent years, it has been verified that prominent French camoufleurs during World War I were consciously,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:00 AM • 8 Comments
May 30, 2006
Category: News
According to an article in the New York Times, names of companies that are easier to pronounce lead to higher stock prices. The researchers ... tested name complexity and the performance of real initial public offerings listed on the New...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:52 PM • 2 Comments
Category: Memory • Research • Social • Video Games / Technology
A recent study about violence and sex in TV advertising got a fair amount of press. "Violence and sex don't sell," the headlines proclaimed. If such a claim is true, it flies in the face of conventional wisdom and the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:14 AM • 11 Comments
Category: News
When he was a toddler, our son Jim was entranced by Barney the Dinosaur. He'd watch the program for an uninterrupted 30 minutes each day, giving exhausted parents a much-needed chance for a rest, while Jimmy learned important skills such...
Posted by Dave Munger at 6:55 AM • 5 Comments
May 29, 2006
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
This week's "Ask a Scienceblogger question" is: Since they're funded by taxpayer dollars (through the NIH, NSF, and so on), should scientists have to justify their research agendas to the public, rather than just grant-making bodies? NO! The public isn't...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:31 PM • 11 Comments
Category: News
Interesting article in the Washington Post about video game addiction in South Korea (via Slashdot). From the article: An estimated 2.4 percent of the population from 9 to 39 are believed to be suffering from game addiction, according to a...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:35 AM • 4 Comments
May 26, 2006
Category: Development / Aging • Perception • Research
Take a look at the following movie. Your job is to identify which ball appeared to make the noise in the final frame. (click to play): If this seems confusing now, it should be cleared up by the end of...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:05 PM • 12 Comments
Category: News
Chris Chatham has an excellent summary of a talk by University of Chicago neurologist / mathematician Jack Cowan, who has come up with a mathematical explanation of a variety of common hallucinations. The development of orientation and spatial frequency maps...
Posted by Dave Munger at 6:33 AM • 4 Comments
May 25, 2006
Category: News
Japanese researchers have found a way to use a human brain image to control a robot. While this isn't exactly "mind control" -- the human still has to physically move his body in order to create the proper brain image,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:48 PM • 10 Comments
May 24, 2006
We've discussed implicit attitudes on Cognitive Daily before, but never in the context of food. The standard implicit attitude task asks you to identify items belonging to two different categories. Consider the following lists. Use your mouse to click on...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:00 PM • 4 Comments
May 22, 2006
Category: Research
We've had plenty of discussion of the Stroop Effect on Cognitive Daily, and a cool effect it is -- but it's not the only effect with a catchy name. How about the spatial numerical association of response codes effect? Not...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:04 PM • 15 Comments
May 19, 2006
Category: Color perception • Research • Social
The Stroop Effect was originally just a language effect: we're slower identifying the color text is printed in when the words themselves name different colors. In the 81 years since the effect was first observed, it's been applied to a...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:20 PM • 13 Comments
May 18, 2006
Category: Face perception • Research • Social
Take a look at this photo: What emotion would you say I'm expressing here? Let's make this one a poll (make sure you answer before you read any farther):...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:46 PM • 42 Comments
Category: General / Site news
My article The Economics of Conservation is up on seedmagazine.com. The article discusses the clash over global warming, and how economists and climatologists deal with the uncertainty inherent in each of their disciplines. It was an interesting article to write...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:07 AM • 2 Comments
May 17, 2006
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
This week's Ask a Scienceblogger question is "will the "human" race still be around in 100 years?" The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is this: we could face a number of catastrophes, including a pandemic, massive global...
Posted by Dave Munger at 6:27 AM • 2 Comments
