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Dave and Greta Munger Cognitive Daily reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in the field.

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.

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November 20, 2009

Casual Fridays: What makes a good writer, and what motivates them?

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...

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November 19, 2009

Detecting faces: People use some of the same strategies computers do

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...

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November 17, 2009

Men often treat their friends better than women do

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...

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November 13, 2009

Casual Fridays: What makes a good writer?

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...

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November 12, 2009

The long-term effects of day care

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...

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November 11, 2009

Deep brain stimulation for clinical depression?

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...

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November 10, 2009

Do chimps understand what Jon Stewart (or another chimp) believes?

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...

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November 5, 2009

What's the best way to take a study break?

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...

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November 4, 2009

Can artificial sweeteners really help us lose weight?

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...

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November 3, 2009

Anime film characters: Do we perceive the intended race, or our own?

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...

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