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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.
July 29, 2009
Category: Research
Implicit attitudes and associations can tell us a lot about a person. It's a way to find out if they might have a racial or gender bias, and recently there has even been some work suggesting that an implicit association...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:36 PM • 18 Comments •
July 28, 2009
Category: Research
Take a look at this quick movie. What you'll see is two sets of three views of the same scene (our living room). For each group of three views, your job is to decide if the third view is taken...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:05 PM • 10 Comments •
July 23, 2009
Category: Research
[Originally posted in April 2007] Cognitive decline as we age is all over the news lately. "Brain fitness" products are available for cell phones, Game Boys, and Xboxes, all designed to prevent the natural decline in cognitive ability as we...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:53 AM • 9 Comments •
July 21, 2009
Category: Research
[Originally posted in November 2006] The recent controversial shooting of an unarmed black man in New York has generated terrible grief and perhaps justifiable anger. But if officers honestly believed the man was armed and intended to harm them, weren't...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:40 AM • 9 Comments •
July 20, 2009
Category: Research
[Originally posted in January 2008] When we watch a movie, we're usually not conscious of the cuts made by the editor. The camera angle may change dozens of times during a scene, and we follow along as if the flashing...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:30 AM • 12 Comments •
July 16, 2009
Category: Research
When school budgets are cut, programs in music and the arts are often the first to get axed. While this makes a certain amount of sense because music isn't always considered "essential" to education, recently in the U.S. we're starting...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:21 PM • 15 Comments •
July 14, 2009
Category: Research
The hollow-face illusion is one of the most dramatic and robust illusions I've ever come across. It's been known for well over 200 years, but it never ceases to amaze me, as this video demonstrates: A three-dimensional hollow face mask...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:15 PM • 13 Comments •
July 9, 2009
Category: Research
[Originally posted in December, 2007] 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...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:55 PM • 9 Comments •
July 8, 2009
Category: Research
My computer has over 5,000 songs on it -- 16.2 days' worth, according to my music-playing software. So how do I pick what song to listen to? More often than not, I just shuffle the whole list and play whatever...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:08 AM • 35 Comments •
July 6, 2009
Category: Research
Take a look at this movie (you'll need a video player like QuickTime or Windows Media Player installed in your browser to see it). You'll see four different outdoor scenes flash by, one at a time. The scene itself will...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:34 PM • 5 Comments •
Highly Allochthonous 11.05.2009
Eruptions 11.05.2009
Not Exactly Rocket Science 11.05.2009
Corpus Callosum 11.05.2009
Starts With a Bang 11.04.2009
