May 10, 2008
Category: Casual Fridays
Last week we asked our readers who their most important mentors were. We didn't mention it at the time, but the survey was inspired by the headlines that week about Barack Obama's pastor's seemingly unpatriotic sermons, and how those sermons reflected on Obama. Do pastors really have a huge influence on people's lives? Can we actually evaluate a presidential candidate based on something his pastor says?
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Posted by Dave Munger at 3:07 PM • 8 Comments
May 8, 2008
Category: Memory • Research • Social
Anton races home at speeds well in excess of the speed limit. He's rushing to beat his parents home so that he can hide their anniversary present so it will be a surprise. Suddenly, he hits a slick patch and...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 3:47 PM • 14 Comments
May 7, 2008
Category: Development / Aging • Reasoning • Research • Social
Ask almost anyone whether willfully deceiving another person -- lying -- is wrong, and they'll say it is. But probe a little deeper and most people will say there are some instances where lying is okay: lying to prevent a...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 3:05 PM • 9 Comments
May 5, 2008
Category: Music • Research
If you've had a lot of musical training, you can probably tell the difference between a major and minor key. If you haven't had much training, even after having the difference explained to you, you're still not likely to be...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 3:22 PM • 21 Comments
Category: General / Site news
Last week's post on perceptual restoration in toddlers brought a lot of speculation from commenters. To answer some of the questions, I thought I'd elaborate a bit here on the phenomenon and how I created the demo. First, here's the...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 11:54 AM • 2 Comments
May 2, 2008
Category: Casual Fridays
This week's Casual Friday is about mentors. We're curious who constitutes the most important influence on our readers, and whether we can identify any patterns in the results. So we've created a brief study that we hope will answer our...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 3:39 PM • 9 Comments
May 1, 2008
Category: Development / Aging • Language • Research
One of the amazing things about learning language is that children rarely hear language sounds in ideal acoustic environments. Maybe other people are talking in the background, or the dishwasher is running, or the TV is on. Yet somehow children...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 3:00 PM • 17 Comments
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