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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 editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. And yes, he is married to Greta.
January 30, 2009
Category: Casual Fridays
Valentines' Day is coming up in just a few weeks, so we thought we'd help our readers prepare by assessing the romance level of a few common gifts they might consider getting for their significant others. I've noticed that there's...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:38 PM • 22 Comments •
January 29, 2009
Category: Research
Some of the things psychologists ask their research subjects to do are really rather annoying. I'm not talking about Milgram-esque studies where people confront their inner demons, I'm talking about much more pedestrian stuff. This movie, for example, gives you...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:19 PM • 6 Comments •
January 28, 2009
Category: Research
Take a look at this graph showing population distribution by county in a fictional U.S. state: How do you read such a graph? Is this the ideal way to depict this sort of information? If you wanted to know which...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:43 PM • 18 Comments •
January 26, 2009
Category: Research
Two years ago, we linked to a post about an ABC news program that claimed to have replicated Stanley Milgram's controversial experiments from the 1960s and 70s about obedience to authority. The original study tricked unwitting paid study participants into...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:25 PM • 27 Comments •
January 25, 2009
Category: Fun and games
Today's Slashdot poll covers some of the same territory as this week's Casual Fridays study. Their poll asks "How Many Hours Of Work Do You Do Per Workday?" We asked two questions that get at the same concept: How much...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:41 PM • 14 Comments •
January 23, 2009
Category: Casual Fridays
Last week's Casual Fridays study was supposed to be about distractions and distractibility. Many of us struggle to keep our minds on work when the whole wide internet is available to entertain and inform us. So I wondered: Are people...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:21 PM • 6 Comments •
January 22, 2009
Category: Research
What are we looking at when we recognize faces? The shapes of of the individual components of the face -- eyes, nose, mouth? Or are we recognizing the larger patterns of how those parts relate to one another -- the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:47 PM • 2 Comments •
January 21, 2009
Category: Research
There's lots of evidence that most TV isn't beneficial to toddlers, and it may even be harmful. But can't kids learn from TV too? Isn't that supposed to be what shows like Teletubbies, Barney, and Sesame street are all about?...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:33 PM • 29 Comments •
January 16, 2009
Category: Casual Fridays
One of my most difficult challenges as I work at home on Cognitive Daily and other projects is to keep focused on the task at hand. The internet, with its myriad distractions, is just a click away. It used to...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:02 PM • 26 Comments •
January 15, 2009
Category: Research
In 2007 I received a really cool Christmas present that I still haven't used. It's a kit to help identify the various components of the aroma in a glass of wine. I haven't used it because I wanted to wait...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:57 PM • 10 Comments •
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