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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, 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 • 15 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 • 14 Comments
May 23, 2007
Category: Attention • Perception • 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 • 9 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
May 18, 2007
Category: Casual Fridays
Are sports fans ignorant about the arts? Do opera buffs have trouble distinguishing a fastball from a slider? Greta has never been much of a sports fan, but she loves taking in the arts, cultural events, and Broadway shows. I...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:31 PM • 9 Comments
Category: News
Much research has found that there are IQ differences based on socioeconomic background of children: poorer children have lower IQs. But it's possible that these differences may be due to health problems in some groups: if poor kids are more...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:18 AM • 6 Comments
May 17, 2007
Category: News
Check this out: As you might guess, all these bands are actually horizontal, but the stripes cause each band to be perceived as sloping up or down. But take a closer look: the top pair of bands appears to be...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:08 AM • 9 Comments
May 16, 2007
Category: News
Lots of news outlets are buzzing about a new stand-up treadmill workstation. The idea is that you work standing up for part of the day, walking at a very slow pace, burning calories but still getting just as much done....
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:56 AM • 16 Comments
May 15, 2007
Category: Development / Aging • Movement and exercise • Music • Research
When Greta earned her Ph.D. 13 years ago, Jim was two and a half years old, and Nora was just 10 months old. Jim knew a few words, and Nora couldn't talk at all. You might think a baby as...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:59 PM • 3 Comments
Category: News
The emoticon for "smile" in most western cultures is this :). One of the ScienceBloggers does it backwards (: (can you guess who?), but the symbol is essentially the same. In Japan, however, the smile is depicted like this: ^_^....
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:12 AM • 14 Comments
