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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, 2007

How "gut feelings" influence memory

Category: AttentionMemoryPerceptionResearch

[Originally posted on November 7, 2005] What does it mean to have a gut feeling that you remember something? You see someone you recognize in a coffee shop. Do you remember her from high school? Or maybe you saw her...

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December 28, 2007

What is peer review, anyway?

Category: Opinion

Over at BPR3, a reader brought up an interesting question about the nature of peer-reviewed research, which I thought was relevant to our readers here as well. I'm reposting my entire response below. The system of peer review, the bulwark...

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December 27, 2007

If short-term happiness isn't always best, what about long-term?

Category: EmotionResearchSocial

Earlier this week we discussed the relationship between life satisfaction and other measures of well-being, finding that for measures such as relative income, the happiest people weren't always the best-off. For relationships, however, the happiest individuals also seem to do...

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December 26, 2007

How babies build a picture of the world

Category: Development / AgingPerceptionResearch

[Originally posted on February 20, 2006] Here's a picture of our daughter Nora at about 3 months of age. She looks like she's fairly aware of the events going on around her (arguably more aware than she sometimes appears now,...

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December 24, 2007

Is it possible to be too happy?

Category: EmotionResearchSocial

Happiness is associated with a lot of good things in life. People who are happier tend to get better job ratings, make more money, be more likely to get married, and be more satisfied with their marriages than people who...

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December 21, 2007

Thumbnail book review: Proust was a Neuroscientist

Category: Opinion

I just finished reading Jonah Lehrer's book Proust was a Neuroscientist. Quick review: good book, very fun read, and I'm happy to recommend it to almost everyone. I just have one small quibble. For the quibble to make any sense,...

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December 20, 2007

Is it "cheating" to take brain-enhancing drugs?

Category: Opinion

Last year, a friend of Greta's died tragically young. He was a pillar of the community, and Greta was honored to learn that he wanted her to play the oboe at his memorial service, which would be attended by hundreds...

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December 19, 2007

Smells we can't detect affect judgments we make about people

Category: Face perceptionResearchTaste

Do smells have an impact on how we judge people? Certainly if someone smells bad, we may have a negative impression of the person. But what if the smell is so subtle we don't consciously notice it? Research results have...

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December 17, 2007

Want someone to remember your face? Smile.

Category: EmotionFace perceptionResearch

This past weekend, I went to two different holiday parties. While many of the people at the parties were friends, I was also introduced to a couple dozen new people -- out of town guests of the hosts, friends of...

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December 14, 2007

Casual Fridays: Does the label "stay-at-home parent" carry a stigma?

Category: Casual Fridays

A few weeks ago, I was excited to learn that a project I'm working on got written up on NPR's News Blog. However, I was less excited when I saw the way my own status was described: Dave Munger, a...

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December 13, 2007

Memories, attention, and intention

Category: AttentionMemoryResearch

The human perceptual system is able to enforce a large array of illusions on our conscious experience. Most importantly, we hold the illusion of a complete and vivid picture of our surroundings, while in fact we selectively ignore nearly everything...

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December 11, 2007

We hear different music depending on how we dance to it

Category: Research

Listen to this short recording: It's a sequence that repeats every sixth beat. But when we're listening to music, we usually prefer to divide rhythm into two- or three-beat patterns (duple or triple rhythm). In this case, the sequence doesn't...

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German version of scienceblogs; what language next?

Category: General / Site news

Scienceblogs has launched the beta version of its German-language site. You can check it out at Scienceblogs.de. The site looks great -- I've never regretted not learning German more! It also offers a feature I'd like to see here on...

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December 10, 2007

What does author position say about credit?

Category: News

There's been a lot of discussion online lately about the relative importance of the position of an author name. Is it more impressive to be a first author on a report? If so, how much? John Lynch made a graph...

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December 7, 2007

Casual Fridays: Reading comprehension?

Category: Casual Fridays

This week's Casual Fridays study is just a quick reading comprehension test. Is that all it is? I can't tell you. Why not just try it and find out for yourself? Click here to participate As usual, the survey is...

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December 6, 2007

Understanding cocktail-party conversation: Why do we look where we do?

Category: AttentionFace perceptionLanguageMovement and exerciseResearch

When we are trying to understand what someone is saying, we rely a lot on the movement of their face. We pay attention to how their faces move, and that informs our understanding of what is said. The classic example...

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