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Greta Munger is Professor of Psychology at Davidson College whose works include The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions. Dave Munger now writes at The Daily Monthly. He is co-founder and editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. And yes, he is married to Greta.
November 30, 2007
Category: Casual Fridays
Two weeks ago, we challenged our readers to see if they could discern the difference between MP3 recordings at different sampling data rates. Nearly 700 completed our study. So does a very high data rate result in a noticeable difference?...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:09 PM • 57 Comments •
November 28, 2007
Category: Opinion
I've just finished reading fellow ScienceBlogger Chris Mooney's new book Storm World, and I highly recommend it -- not only to people interested in hurricanes and global climate change, but also to fans of cognitive psychology. Why psychology? Because the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:42 PM • 1 Comments •
November 27, 2007
Category: Research
Do people ever tell you to "just smile, you'll feel better"? If you're like our daughter Nora, you hear it a lot, and you get annoyed every time you hear it. Telling a teenager to smile is probably one of...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:03 PM • 14 Comments •
November 26, 2007
Category: Research
What do most parents want for their kids as they grow into adults? Successful careers? Happy family lives? Or do they simply want their children to be good people? They probably want all of these things -- and a little...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:33 PM • 14 Comments •
November 24, 2007
Category: General / Site news
That's right, you can now get the full text of every Cognitive Daily post via RSS. There's just one catch: You must buy a $399 Amazon Kindle and pay 99 cents (per month, I assume) to subscribe to Cognitive Daily....
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:44 AM • 26 Comments •
November 20, 2007
Category: Research
Nothing brings out conflict an academic department like a hiring decision. Adding a new faculty member is complicated by dozens of factors: What field should the new hire be in? Is it more important to hire someone in precisely the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:21 PM • 6 Comments •
November 19, 2007
Category: Research
Suppose you're playing a game where the goal is to accumulate as many points as possible. Now suppose your decisions -- and only your decisions -- control not only how many points you get, but also how many points the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:21 PM • 15 Comments •
November 16, 2007
Category: Casual Fridays
There's a lot of debate online about whether people can really tell the difference between the various audio formats -- AAC, MP3, you name it. Does it really make a difference? Recently I saw a blog post suggesting that the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:39 PM • 30 Comments •
November 15, 2007
Category: General / Site news
Earlier this week we asked readers which CogDaily posts we should submit to the Open Laboratory anthology. We didn't get many suggestions, and commenter Keely had a guess as to why: Perhaps what would be more helpful is to post...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:12 PM • •
Category: General / Site news
Have you been following the progress over at BPR3? Here's an update: With the release of the Research Blogging icon, dozens of blogs and hundreds of posts are already showing the world when they are discussing peer-reviewed research. But the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:44 AM • 1 Comments •
