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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.
November 20, 2009
Category: Casual Fridays
We received an astonishing number of responses to last week's Casual Fridays study, which claimed to be able to identify what makes a good writer in just a few minutes. Of course, I wasn't actually very confident that a brief...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:38 PM • 11 Comments •
November 19, 2009
Category: Research
How does our visual system decide if something is a face? Some automated face-detecting software uses color as one cue that something is a face. For example Apple's iPhoto has no trouble determining that there are two faces in this...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:43 PM • 4 Comments •
November 17, 2009
Category: Research
Who's more "sociable," men or women? Common sense says it's women, right? And many research studies back this impression up: Women are more interpersonal, more connected, more interdependent than men. Women are more likely to share intimate information with each...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:28 PM • 26 Comments •
November 13, 2009
Category: Casual Fridays
Some people just seem to be natural writers -- they can write perfect, elegant sentences with a minimum of effort. Some popular fiction novelists crank out 6 or more novels per year. Some bloggers write 10 or more posts per...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:51 PM • 33 Comments •
November 12, 2009
Category: Research
When we were getting ready to have our first child, I decided that I would quit my job, work out of home as a freelancer, and take care of our baby while Greta finished graduate school. That worked well for...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:31 PM • 18 Comments •
November 11, 2009
Category: In other news
This week on SEED, I'm writing about Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), a promising new way to treat clinical depression. Here's a snippet: In DBS therapy, one or more electrodes the size of a spaghetti strand are precisely positioned in the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:49 AM • 2 Comments •
November 10, 2009
Category: Research
Take a look at this video from last night's episode of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." If you'd like, you can skip past all the political snark to the 4:47 mark to watch Jon bring cognitive psychology into prime time...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:09 PM • 4 Comments •
November 5, 2009
Category: Research
Greta and I did our undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, or as a commonly-sold T-shirt on campus put it, "where fun goes to die." To say that Chicago didn't emphasize academics over a social life is to deny...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:20 PM • 10 Comments •
November 4, 2009
Category: In other news
My SEED column this week focuses on artificial sweeteners. Can switching to artificial sweeteners help solve the obesity problem in the U.S.? Here's a snippet: Saunders says an August report from the American Heart Association (AHA) made it quite clear...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:34 PM • 8 Comments •
November 3, 2009
Category: Research
One of my favorite cartoons as a child was "Speed Racer." It featured an all-American boy (first name, "Speed," last name, "Racer") engaging in that most American of pastimes: driving fast cars. Except that "Speed Racer" wasn't really American; it...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:34 PM • 39 Comments •
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