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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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December 31, 2006

Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for December 31, 2006

Category: Podcasts

Here's the Cognitive Daily weekly podcast for December 31 (one day late -- sorry, we're just back from vacation!). Don't forget that you can subscribe to the podcast using the special RSS feed: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/rss-podcasts.xml To subscribe using iTunes, select Subscribe...

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December 28, 2006

Perfectionism, Stress, and Depression

Category: ResearchSocial

This is a guest post by Dominic Ippolito, one of my top student writers from Fall of 2006 Everyone knows a "perfectionist." We think of him or her as someone who strives for, and often attains, a high level of...

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December 26, 2006

What are babies looking for when they look to their mothers?

Category: Development / AgingResearchSocial

This is a guest post by Anna Coon, one of my top student writers from fall 2006 If a baby is placed in a new, strange situation, a common reaction is to look to its mother. For example, whenever I...

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December 23, 2006

Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for December 23, 2006

Category: Podcasts

Here's the Cognitive Daily weekly podcast for December 23. Don't forget that you can subscribe to the podcast using the special RSS feed: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/rss-podcasts.xml To subscribe using iTunes, select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu, then paste or type...

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December 22, 2006

Casual Fridays: Christmas procrastinators' edition

Category: Casual Fridays

So it's December 22, and you are one of the few people who hasn't already bagged out of work to get ready for the holidays. You've been absolutely deluged -- swamped with work -- the entire month of December. You've...

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December 21, 2006

Do you choke under pressure? Depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

Category: Learning and testingReasoningResearchSocial

Take a look at these two images. Do they belong in the same category or different categories? You say the same? Wrong -- they're different! The one on the right is a little blurrier. What about these two? These are...

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December 20, 2006

Chad's got tenure!

Category: News

Fellow ScienceBlogger and SAT-Challenge co-investigator Chad Orzel has been awarded tenure at Union College. Why not head over there and offer him congratulations? Let's see if we can make his the biggest ScienceBlogs discussion thread ever! Now get to work...

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December 19, 2006

Testosterone and aggression, or what Frank's Red Hot Sauce has to do with handgun violence

Category: EmotionResearchSocial

As parents of a 15-year-old, Greta and I are very interested in what causes people to behave aggressively. We know a lot about specific causes of aggression -- violent media, testosterone, guns, and personal insults can all lead to aggressive...

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Our first year with ScienceBlogs

Category: General / Site newsNews

ScienceBlogs is celebrating its first birthday with a wonderful portrait of the entire ScienceBlogs family. It's not quite a year yet (I think we were officially online on January 11, 2005), but if they're happy to celebrate early, so are...

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December 18, 2006

The future of robotics according to Bill Gates

Category: News

The cover story in this month's Scientific American, written by mega-entrepreneur Bill Gates, discusses the future of robotics. In the article Gates describes one of robotics' thorniest problems. Having spent some time working with Lego Mindstorms, I can vouch that...

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December 16, 2006

Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for December 16, 2006

Category: Podcasts

Here's the Cognitive Daily weekly podcast for December 16. Don't forget that you can subscribe to the podcast using the special RSS feed: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/rss-podcasts.xml To subscribe using iTunes, select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu, then paste or type...

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December 15, 2006

Casual Fridays: Holiday edition

Category: Casual Fridays

Yesterday's report on gift preferences was the inspiration for this week's study. Are some types of gifts simply inappropriate? If it seems clear that not much thought went into a particular gift, does that make it less "special"? Or does...

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The psychology of criminals

Category: News

Psychology Today has a trio of articles relating to crime and justice. The first article is possibly the most interesting. It offers some compelling data on the frequency of false confessions: Although it is difficult, if not impossible, to estimate...

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December 14, 2006

Why my mom didn't buy me a slot car track for Christmas in 1978, even though I told her that's what I wanted

Category: IntentionalityResearchSocial

I'm not bitter about this, honest I'm not, but it does often seem that people who know you very well end up buying really lousy gifts. What I really want to find out is this: why do they do that?...

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Are controlled clinical studies "cruel?"

Category: Opinion

Clinician Dr. Louann Brizendine is quoted in the New York Times as saying that she doesn't do research because "I don't want to give patients a placebo. It's cruel." The interviewer pushes her on the issue, pointing out that in...

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December 13, 2006

"I'm not a racist, but...", or why automatic stereotyping happens: Part 2

Category: PerceptionReasoningResearchSocial

Keith Payne's work on racial stereotyping brings up an intriguing possibility. During the weapons identification task, viewers are more likely to erroneously identify a harmless object as a weapon if it was preceded by a black face compared to a...

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