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Dave and Greta Munger Cognitive Daily reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in the field.

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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November 30, 2006

Shooting unarmed suspects: A matter of race?

Category: AttentionResearchSocial

The recent controversial shooting of an unarmed black man in New York has generated terrible grief and perhaps justifiable anger. But if officers honestly believed the man was armed and intended to harm them, weren't they justified in shooting? Perhaps,...

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Misleading headline of the week

Category: News

An article in ScienceDaily proclaims Success A Family Affair? Willingness To Take Risks And Trust Others Are Inherited, Study Suggests. Actually, the study suggests the opposite: C only that children have similar risk profiles to their parents. This indicates that...

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November 29, 2006

Why are people with "tone-deafness" bad dancers?

Category: MusicPerceptionResearch

One of the unanswered questions in Krista Hyde and Isabelle Peretz's research on amusia ("tone-deafness") is why amusics frequently say they are unable to clap to the rhythm of a song, or to dance well. In Hyde and Peretz's study,...

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How to educate those who seem uneducable

Category: News

Is it really possible for child in a destitute situation to rise above it and become not only a productive member of society, but to excel? Jonah Lehrer discusses an important New York Times article that I had skipped over...

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November 28, 2006

What looks good -- and what sounds bad?

Category: News

Uber-geek David Pogue has completed a Casual-Friday-worthy study of the human perceptual system. He wanted to test the "megapixel myth" -- the idea that buying a higher megapixel camera doesn't necessarily mean that you will take better pictures. He made...

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November 27, 2006

Cultural differences in perception of consequences

Category: News

New research shows that Asian Americans have a very different understanding of consequences than European Americans: While European Americans say that a single pool shot has a bigger influence on the next shot, when asked about its influence several shots...

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November 22, 2006

More insight on how we recognize faces (with cool videos!)

Category: Face perceptionMemoryResearch

Do you recognize the person depicted in this video? How about this one? The first video is actually a "chimera," formed by fusing half-images of two well-known faces together, then animated using 3D projection software. The second video shows us...

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November 21, 2006

What happens to the ball?

Category: News

Watch this video and describe what you see (it's a Windows Media file, so if you've got a Mac, you'll need Flip4Mac):...

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November 20, 2006

Flash-lag demos galore!

Category: News

The flash-lag effect is difficult to explain, but amazingly cool to see. Over at Mixing Memory, Chris has a great post where he links to two examples of the phenomenon and discusses what might be causing it. Cool, isn't it?...

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November 18, 2006

Do "Blink" methods really work?

Category: Opinion

Larry Moran thinks I have the wrong idea about teaching evaluations and "thin slicing": Unfortunately, Dave Munger seems to draw the wrong conclusions from this study as he explains in an earlier posting [The six-second teacher evaluation]. In that article...

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November 17, 2006

Casual Fridays: Which PowerPoint tips really work?

Category: Casual Fridays

There's been an abundance of PowerPoint advice in the science blogosphere lately. Based on my personal experience, I'd say Chad and Amy give some good advice -- and it's advice that probably serves them well in their own presentations. But...

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Understanding the gender gap in science -- a personal perspective

Category: Opinion

In 1981, the economist Lester C. Thurow wrote an article for the New York Times entitled "Why women are paid less than men." If you have a subscription, you can still read it on the Times web site. My copy...

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November 16, 2006

Why won't psychologists share their data?

Category: News

The APA has an important rule that all authors of APA-sponsored journal articles must agree to before publication: After research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who...

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November 15, 2006

More on "tone-deafness"

Category: Learning and testingMusicResearch

There was some doubt as to whether the "tone-deafness" test I linked to Monday really tests for amusia. The defining trait of amusia is the inability to discern the difference between different musical pitches. So here's a test that might...

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Neurosurgeon the hero of new TV show

Category: News

I'm actually doing better than usual: I'm just a day behind on the latest entertainment news. Last night, CBS premiered a TV show called 3 Lbs., which focuses on the tensions in a world-class neurosurgery unit of a major hospital....

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November 14, 2006

Insight into how children learn cultural values

Category: Development / AgingEmotionResearchSocial

If a Brahman child from Nepal is asked what she would do if another child spilled a drink on her homework, her response is different from that of a Tamang child from the same country. The Brahman would become...

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