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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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August 29, 2008
Category: Language • Memory • Research
I've always been a fan of literary studies -- I was an English major in college and I continue to blog about literature on my personal blog. But when I first learned about the concept of alliteration (I must have...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:07 AM • 3 Comments
August 27, 2008
Category: Development / Aging • Perception • Research
"Impossible objects" like the etchings of M.C. Escher have fascinated adults for centuries. You can't help but stare and wonder at a drawing like this, which seems to defy the laws of nature: The drawing seems strange to us because...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:30 PM • 3 Comments
August 25, 2008
Take a look at this short video -- it's a list of animals. Try to remember as many animals as you can. If you're like me, you're pretty confident that you will remember the entire list, even after ten minutes...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:04 AM • 10 Comments
August 21, 2008
Category: Movement and exercise • Music • Perception • Research
As a child (and like most children, I imagine) I used to think conducting an orchestra entailed something like what Bugs Bunny does in this video: Waving the hands, as conductors frequently do, seemed largely for show. The conductor appeared...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:32 PM • 19 Comments
August 19, 2008
Category: Fun and games
The current issue of WIRED reveals an interesting quirk of the human perceptual system: Can you spot what's wrong?...
Posted by Dave Munger at 7:52 AM • 54 Comments
August 18, 2008
Category: Memory • Music • Research • Social
One of the first things I did after my 90-mile hike with Nora in the North Cascades was play some music on the car stereo. We'd been in the wilderness for seven days, and other than birdsong, we hadn't heard...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:43 PM • 25 Comments
August 14, 2008
Category: Emotion • Research • Social
[This article was originally published in December, 2006] As parents of a 1516-year-old, Greta and I are very interested in what causes people to behave aggressively. We know a lot about specific causes of aggression -- violent media, testosterone, guns,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:19 AM • 31 Comments
August 13, 2008
Category: News
Over at Sciam's Mind Matters blog, Greta and I have written a guest post about tone deafness and bad singing: Although there have been many studies of perceptual tone deafness, or amusia, few have compared people's ability to hear differences...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:50 PM • 7 Comments
August 11, 2008
Category: Learning and testing • Reasoning • Research • Social
[This article was originally published in December, 2006] Take a look at these two images. Do they belong in the same category or different categories? You say the same? Wrong -- they're different! The one on the right is a...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:15 AM • 7 Comments
August 7, 2008
Category: Emotion • Perception • Reasoning • Research • Social
[This article was originally published in April, 2007] There is a considerable body of research showing that eye contact is a key component of social interaction. Not only are people more aroused when they are looked at directly, but if...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:21 AM • 13 Comments
August 4, 2008
Category: Attention • Color perception • Perception • Research
[Originally posted in May, 2007] "I just didn't see him" is a claim that's repeated over and over in accident reports. Drivers earnestly claim that they simply didn't notice the bicycle/pedestrian/motorcycle they crashed into. The claim is made so frequently...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:25 AM • 35 Comments
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