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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.
May 31, 2007
Category: General / Site news
More and more studies are online these days, which means that researchers can find a whole new array of participants for their studies, and anyone who's interested can become a real part of cutting-edge research. But how can researchers find...
Posted by Dave Munger at 7:45 AM • 24 Comments •
May 30, 2007
Category: News
There's been lots of commentary online about Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg's article about why children (and adults) often resist learning scientific information. Deric Bownds gives the money quote from the article: Resistance to science will arise in children...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:22 AM • 13 Comments •
May 29, 2007
Category: News
With the preparations for Europe going on at full steam, I find myself drawn toward psychology articles about traveling. Take, for example, this article in Scientific American. Kaushik Basu explains the "traveler's dilemma," a scenario in which identical items purchased...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:27 AM • 13 Comments •
May 25, 2007
Category: Casual Fridays
Last week we wondered whether sports fans and arts buffs were nonintersecting groups. I knew there were some exceptions to the idea that an arts snob wouldn't set foot inside an athletic complex. For example, a friend of mine is...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:51 PM • 6 Comments •
May 24, 2007
Category: News
I don't know what I expected to see when I posted yesterday's poll about people's work schedules, but I didn't expect to find this. With over 250 responses, fewer than half of our respondents said they work a standard 8-5...
Posted by Dave Munger at 7:42 AM • 15 Comments •
May 23, 2007
Category: Research
The visual system is very good at noticing a new object coming into view. However, the system isn't perfect. If a second object appears near the first one, it takes a little longer to spot it. This phenomenon, known as...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:53 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: News
Jason Kottke points to an interesting article about why so many people seem to be hanging out in cafes, coffee shops, and parks in the middle of the day while "normal" people are working. Everyone seems to have a different...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:15 AM • 29 Comments •
May 22, 2007
Category: News
When Joanne Rowling sat in an Edinburgh coffee shop, nearly broke, her baby sleeping nearby in a stroller, penning a fantastic story about a school for wizards, could anyone have predicted that she would soon be the most successful novelist...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:40 AM • 8 Comments •
May 21, 2007
Category: News
A fascinating study has just found that hearing one person's opinion repeated is almost as effective as hearing several different people's opinions. Repeated exposure to one person's viewpoint can have almost as much influence as exposure to shared opinions from...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:27 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: General / Site news
Last week we reported on our site statistics after going to a full RSS feed. The results were disappointing; our numbers went down. We said we'd continue the experiment for another week to see if the trend was reversed once...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:49 AM • 22 Comments •
